Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Random

Can I just tell you how much I hate the bathroom where I work.

First, we have the automated, handicap door to get in. Even when you don't use the button to engage the handicap feature, the door opens on it's own as soon as you start to open it. Then it hangs open for entirely too long so everyone who walks by the bathroom can hear what's going on inside. Except on the weekends (yea, I know, what am I doing at work on the weekends).....the weekends it never works! What if a handicapped person were in working on the weekends?

Then we have the automated flush mechanism. It NEVER works correctly! It either flushes 3 times while you are in the process of sitting on the toilet, or it doesn't flush at all! And there is no rhyme or reason to this, except it seems to flush way too often in the morning. Suppose it's excited to be used after a night of rest. Come lunch time, it's exhausted and you have to manually flush. Then again later in the afternoon it seems to be working again (and by again, I mean flushing more than once while you are in the process of doing your business). Weekends are hit or miss here too. Does not seem to be tied to the automatic door.

Then we have the fabulous lighting! It's dim flourescent lighting. Need I say more?

At least there isn't usually a line to use the facilities!

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

I'm ready for summer!

Just a few pictures from round 2, with 9.7 new inches (on top of the 30 we got a few days ago) being reported here in Reston. Federal Government is shut down again tomorrow.

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These cars got snow and they were in the carport!
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Trying to take a picture of Sofie and I...
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Ah, finally! I think my hat may be a tad too big though.
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In the middle of the road
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This car was cleaned off yesterday afternoon.
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Daycare is planning on opening tomorrow at 10am, so we are going to try and go in and get some work done. Let's hope the roads are somewhat clear. When Marc went in on Monday, only one lane in the outer loop of the beltway was plowed! Only 1 lane!!! The beltway is the main loop around DC, a major highway.

Snow Round 2

Just trying out some new panorama software. Woke up this morning to almost white out conditions due to the strong winds and it's snowing. When I took these pictures it wasn't as windy so you could see farther. But this morning you couldn't see more than the first few trees.
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

Snowmaggedon

That's what they are calling it around here.  A little picture heavy, but it gives you an idea although the pictures don't really do it justice.

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This is how the cat spent the whole day.

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Friday, February 5, 2010

Snow, Snow, and more Snow

If you haven't heard, Mother Nature hates me! We are in the process of getting our 3rd snow storm in 1 week. Yes you read the right, 7 days. Last weekend we got 3-6 inches in the metro area (I'm going to guess that the snow piled up on Marc's car was about 4 inches). Tuesday night we got another storm....about 2 or 3 inches in our parking lot. And now... (shaking my head)....we are in the process of getting 20-30 inches of snow! That is almost 3 feet of snow. I miss the south!

Marc and Sofie went out a little while ago to walk the dog and make a snow ball or two. Marc estimates that we already have 3, 4, 5 inches on the ground. And it just keeps coming! I see movies and chili in our future tomorrow.

I figured I should go ahead and blog the pictures from last weekend's snow before I get too far behind.

Not happy at first (she hates the process of putting on snow pants and snow boots)
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Our parking lot
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Ok, maybe this isn't so bad.
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And some video..


Snow Wednesday morning from the Tuesday night storm.
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And this was from the start of today/tomorrow's storm. At 3:25pm.
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4:45pm
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And Sofie brought a snowball inside.
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She loves it!
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And in non-snow related news, I was excited that I got Sofie's hair in a double french braid and she sat still long enough for me to do it! All it took was once. Now she requests braids every morning and she'll sit still for them...even if they are only half way down her head.
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