So it’s been a pretty long day today. At home.

It was snowing reasonably well when I went to bed last night, and by the morning we definitely had some snow on the ground. According to the National Weather Service, there was 6.5 inches of snow in Donnelly at some point in time around 7:15AM. Now, where exactly in Donnelly that would be is another guess. Another, more pressing, question if you ask me is — who reports this stuff in Donnelly?

Oddly enough, the Donnelly snowfall total made the WCCO 5pm and 10pm news (I didn’t see the 6pm news). At 10, they reported a total of 8.5 inches, which I can believe, having been outside for a while this afternoon. I’ll have to see if I can dig up a video there proving it.

But yeah, that really makes me wonder who calls this stuff in… Ah well. No big deal.

It’s also been noticeably colder today. Currently according to my fancy thermometer, it says the outside temperature is +12.7F. It’s chilly outside. But that’s alright. It will hopefully help the runoff situation (and keep my basement dry). Last I looked a few hours ago, there were a few small (nickel-sized) damp spots around a few cracks in the floor, but nothing coming up through the floor. In fact, the slightly wet corner I mentioned the other day (at least I believe I mentioned it here) has dried up completely, so we should be in good shape as long as we don’t get lots of rain and this melts off gently over a period of time (which as time goes on, looks more and more like the case).

Anyway, I spent the day working at home today. Not really big on driving to work when I can do most of it here…especially when it’s inclement outside. That was definitely the case. When I went to get the mail, it appeared to be about a 1/4 mile visibility limit, and that was pretty much the case throughout the day. That’s alright. I didn’t manage to get quite as much done as I’d hoped, but I did get several items worked on today, which was a Good Thing.

I will presumably go to work tomorrow, although I’m not sure I’ll be in right away in the morning. The current alert for our neck of the woods (from MN/DOT):

Becker Co., Big Stone Co., Clay Co., Douglas Co., Grant Co., Mahnomen Co., Otter Tail Co., Pope Co., Stevens Co., Swift Co., Traverse Co. and Wilkin Co. snow on roadway, slippery, snow drifts, reduced visibility, gusty winds, extremely hazardous driving conditions — only travel if absolutely necessary, drive with extreme caution — until tomorrow at about 10:00 AM

last updated today at 5:28 PM

They’ll have an update out tomorrow morning, presumably by 8AM, so I’ll see how that goes. I do need to get to the office tomorrow, because I need to make a release/installation of some software, and I can’t do that from here (not that I can’t, but I refuse to do that from here for several reasons — most of which are related to simple management)…so we’ll see.

Not really much else new around here. Had a pretty good day. When I wasn’t working on work-related stuff, I took a bit of a nap, did some trim and touch-up painting (mostly so I could put the door handle mechanism back into the door to Kirstin’s room), and just enjoyed the day in general (as much as one can when one is basically stuck inside). I gave the dogs a bit of attention at one point in time when I went to clean off the Internet dish and feed them. They love the snow and whatnot. Of course, there’s about a 1-foot deep drift in their area, so they really enjoy that.

I’ve been again into a real ‘soulful’ woman’s voice tune thing (music) again today. Don’t know why. This time it didn’t start with Mary Beth Maziarz, though…although I did end up listening to that several times. This time it started out (while I was writing code) when a tune performed by Emiliana Torrini came up on the playlist (I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love With You). There must be something about female singers and neat piano riffs that make me succumb to play them repeatedly. Ah well. Kirstin will likely be a piano player (hopefully)…so perhaps she can be my little piano riff girl someday. 🙂

There were other tunes I played repeatedly today, but I can’t recall what they were off hand (although I guess I did queue up Queen’s ‘Under Pressure’ a few times — nothing like weird deadlines 🙂 ).

It seems like there was something else profound that I was going to ramble on about tonight, but I forget. So I’ll just keep disconnecting thoughts here. I’m good at that. Well, maybe not good, but it’s my niche here.

My Flickr account has now surpassed in views what it contains in pictures. Currently (as of 11:15PM), there are 1,076 pictures, and there have been 1,082 views of said pictures (obviously, not all of them, but distinct visits). The Little Kirstin set has had 595 views, the Daily Kirstin set has had 12 views. That doesn’t mean only 12 people (or 595 attempts have been made to see those pictures), it just means that 12 or 595 have looked at the main set page. Statistics about things like that are interesting (but can easily be taken out of context).

By and large, the biggest number of picture views are of Kirstin…although some of my other sets are reasonably hit. Most likely based upon Flickr searches. But that’s neither here nor there. So that’s cool. First off that I have nearly 1,100 pictures online and that there have been nearly 1,100 distinct visitors. I know there are several people that check back daily with the pictures (so each daily visit from a single person would count as a view)…which is one reason I keep putting them online.

Anyway, it’s going on 11:30 now, so I’m heading for bed. Until next time…

–MZ