Day: March 15, 2018

Thursday, March 15th, 2018 —> -2˚C / +28˚F & not snowing in the dark @ 11:11 pm in Atlantic Canada —

– I don’t know if it’s me – Or are there higher vibrations effecting the way we all see things lately – Even the streetlight and house lights on our street look a bit more magical. –

— We got something like 2 feet of wind-blown hard-packed heavy-wet-snow in our driveway overnight, and the stuff was so hard to deal with the snowblower was squawking and trying to go up and over the snow instead of through it – every three or four inches the darned thing would feel like it hit something solid – It really was a struggle. Our next door neighbour, who’s lived around here all her life came over and asked me, “Have you ever seen snow that was this hard to work with a snowblower?” { Nope }

— I had to stop several times to rest – and at one point, did not think I would be able to finish the job. We had to take a break to go get more gas for the snowblower – pushing hard and then pulling back and pushing again ( even though the thing is powered – when you hold down the lever on the handle -). Wheels were spinning and going nowhere.

– Late morning – the snow hadn’t quite stopped – Doesn’t look like much, but the ridge left by the town’s contracted out snow plows was deadly. – and the four inches of compacted snow that hadn’t blown over the van in the impressive wind – probably weighed as much as a foot or more would have. –

— I fell asleep after we went to get more gasoline – woke up around 5:30 pm? & wanted to go back to sleep in a big way, but decided to give the driveway’s messed up edges another try –

— It turned out that using a lightweight snow shovel ( plastic ‘business end’? ) was a lot easier than going absolutely nuts with the snowblower ( & all the guys in my family die of heart attacks… eep? )

— But I got the job done.

— Almost forgot to mention, Cathi was able to work from home today – She gets more done this way & doesn’t have to deal with ‘schnarr’ office politix – And it’s always good to have her here. Even when I keep being told not to bother her with casual conversation – oops – But when I think something’s important lately I want to blurt it out before I forget it.

— Shrug —

– It wasn’t snowing, but it was starting to get dark when I finished the driveway in pretty much the shape you see here –

— I did dig a canyon to the mail box ( the mailbox is wearing the number “5” here ) after I took this photo. and then, before I collapsed, but was about to, I saw that Cathi was finished with her last minute work stuff and brought her outside to show her a couple things, and that’s when I took the un-retouched photo at the top of this article. I love my iPhone. Just wish it saved the photos with the date and time instead of just the number for a name.

— Sigh —

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— That was yesterday, I felt pretty good after the bit of a workout with the shovel – which didn’t quite survive intact, it’s splitting at the semi-tubular – um – corrugations? – That look like they’re supposed to be a reinforcing, strength-enhancing feature? Looks like maybe one more deceptive bit of planned obsolescence engineering to me.

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— Meanwhile, our game world developmental spurt is going “gang-busters” – And today in a brain storming session one of our artists took a look at what we’ve been doing and said, “Yeah, it’s pretty – and some of those quirky innovations you came up with to hide flaws really work, but what are we doing here? Will it ever all come together? Will it ever actually be open to the public, maybe even paying customers?”

— So we broke out the pencil sketch diagrams and explained the dotted lines and she looked at all of that and gasped, “Holy [ Schnarr ] This makes sense. I really think it works – And I thought you guys were just kind of twiddling your thumbs and kidding yourselves – Wow – I like it.”

— So, with that little shot in the arm – we should bid a fond farewell for the evening and either get some rest or stare at computer screens like electronic zombies for a couple more hours – fueled with our – “The end is in sight -” Or more like, “The real beginning is almost here -” enthusiasm.

— I’m really impressed with the new builders who’ve shown up.

— Yes! —,

~~~~~ Jim