Now that’s more like it
The last big snowstorm didn’t deliver much in the snow department (but it did manage to shut down Portland Public Schools, so, at least according to Russell, it wasn’t a total waste), but today’s snowstorm (3-5 inches; we had over 3 inches at our house, and it looked like it was more than four on the other side of the Ross Island bridge) made up for it. Real snow! Falling from the sky! And, because the City of Portland has four snowploughs, the entire city ground slowly to a stop under the savage blows of the blizzard.
But I got to wander around outside in the snow, which is something I’ve not had a chance to do since I moved out of Chicago. I ended up losing my bus pass on the way home from work (or, in this case, “work” – by the time I got into the office there was basically nobody there, and aside from kicking a broken machine back into action [a fifth-hand ancient DEC 2p intel box, which happens to contain an essential part of our build process, but which isn’t considered important enough to replace with a machine that was actually assembled during this millenium], so all I could do was putter around with a bunch of little things until they closed the building out from me) but it was still worth the snow.