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Ah, the fun of it all. Temps around 29 - 31 degrees since Sunday night (wind chill down to the 18's). Colder here than Ohio and New Jersey. Looks like NJ is having some sort of warm wave, in the 50's and 60's (Dayton dropped 30 degrees yesterday and Mt. Laurel dropped 30 degrees today). Funny how Azucena and I traveled all the way to Ohio for ice and snow and found virtually none of it, but here in our own back yard 3 weeks later, we have plenty. How ironic too that because it's in our own back yard, we are told to stay home. So, Azucena and I have been home telecommuting for 3 days, well, mostly. She has enjoyed the days off some, but I've been checking back in with work, solving issues and getting work done that normally comes in via the web, so for me, it really isn't much different that if I were at work. For Azucena, same thing - she can get most of her work done via the internet, but she elected to treat it as days off, which her work officially did - paid too.
Tuesday, while letting Papas out front for the "pee on demand" trick he has going for us, Buddy got loose. When Buddy gets loose he's gone. We've always been able to find him except for the last two times and he's come back on his own (damn!, uh, Yeah!). But this time he heads out and after awhile we get a call. I had to climb in from the passenger side of the truck to go get him. The truck was iced too much on one side. Didn't really take long to clear the windshield, but I do like the side window vent. Cleared the ice right off the windows. But today, all sides are iced up. One coworker decided it wasn't worth coming in to work when she saw a neighbor spend 30 minutes using a knife around the edges of his doors to open them. Another coworker spend 2 hours de-icing only to decide the bridge she had to cross may be closed.
Some roads and overpasses were closes. Austin ran out of deicing material yesterday, so they basically pleaded with us to stay home. And when an accident occurred, the traffic announcer would say " See, I told you. But don't listen to us, go out on your own and see for yourself if travel is bad". We stayed home and saw for ourselves via the tv.
Dad is still enjoying his electronic setup. He got it off track the other day and came close to calling us, but we think the problem was hitting the channel button (taking it off channel 3 which just screws the whole setup) instead of the off button on the tv. He got it working on his own which is real good to hear. I just wish we had taken the effort to make mom's as simple.