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The neighborhood HS kid who was supposed to shovel my sidewalks yesterday totally flaked on me (pun intended). But, I don’t blame him; I’m 99% sure his mom overcommitted him. I won’t make that mistake again: going forward, I’ll only negotiate with labor directly! 
I went out at around 11am and shoveled and treated my sidewalks. I decided to skip clearing off the car and shoveling a path behind it to the street (through the snowplow mound): I might tackle that tomorrow, but I don’t need to go anywhere until Saturday so I might just keep putting it off and see how much melts naturally by the end of the week. If I do decide to free the car tomorrow, I’m hoping it will at least be less windy: it’s quite gusty at the moment, and the wind keeps blowing snow across cleared paths. (The sun and wind are at cross-purposes today!)
There’s another chance of snow on Saturday morning, but <1" and I think I saw that it will also be very dry – more sweepable than shovelable. I’m supposed to give blood that morning, and hopefully the weather won’t keep me from going to that appointment. It’s only a 40% chance right now, so maybe it won’t happen; or, maybe it’ll push to Sunday.
In other news, it’s been over a week since President Biden declared this coming Thursday a National Day of Mourning (for Jimmy Carter) and a federal holiday, and my customer is just sending out emails about it today. There have been several meetings this week where one of us has mentioned cancelling a Thursday meeting and the feds have gone “Wha…??” Sigh.
So, yeah: don’t check your mailboxes on Thursday.
HERETIC!
(You and liirogue both!! 
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LOL!
Oh man, those look good! Good enough that just I looked them up on Amazon. But I haven’t had marzipan since my bariatric surgery, and am not sure how I’ll tolerate it these days: maybe I’ll start with a Ritter Sport marzipan bar sometime.
That’s how they get ya: not with a bang, but with a whimper. 
Welcome to the wonderful world of project management!
It just feels wrong that DC has snow but Boston doesn’t! 
…but even more virtually than usual.
(But seriously, though: ugh! I hope you feel better soon!)
I read that shortly after it was released; honestly, I was underwhelmed. I’ll be very interested to hear your opinion!
Bleh. You get a , too. Along with all of your favorite soft food and drugs.
Oh, how wonderful! That’s happened to me a few times: usually, someone with a plow or in a Bobcat will be clearing the street and see me struggling with Snowplow Mountain at the foot of my driveway. It takes them 2 seconds to clear what would take me most of an hour – and, like you said, sometimes there are chunks of ice that I’d never be able to move on my own. It’s always such a relief.