The snow melted by the end of the day Tuesday because of all the rain we had. More is forecasted for this week though!
This has been a wild weather week around the US. On a single day, US folks on my team shared in Slack that they experienced tornados, flooding, heavy wind, and heavy snow. A couple days later there was more snow and extremely low temperatures.
If you don’t have backup plans for heat and some emergency preparations, now is probably a good time to start thinking about that. I don’t think this extreme weather is going to improve.
Charlie was home sick from daycare most of the week, and Amanda caught the bug as well. I was mostly spared except for some sore throat, but it did throw a wrench in the week nonetheless.
Working from home with a sick kid is tough. I work best when it is quiet and I’m alone, which makes it impossible to an eye on Charlie and get real work done. Unfortunately, Amanda’s work tends to be call-heavy, also impossible to do and keep an eye on Charlie. We trade off, so neither of us gets enough done.
Charlie recovered enough to daycare on Friday, but Amanda and I had dentist appointments. After mine, I took a walk down to Bruised Apple BooksArchived Link while Amanda finished her appointment. I picked up a couple Edward Abbey books and a book I’ve had my eye on there for over a year: The Internet Atlas by Richard Dinnick. Subtitle: Your indespensible guide to the best 1000 sites on the web. Published in 2000. I love flipping through the screenshots of the web 1.0 sites. I experienced them, but it is a reminder of what the web used to be like.
I spent a couple late nights working on a blog redesign. I have a few more templates to make before I move it over to this site.
The weekend was better. Saturday morning we took a trip up to Lagrangeville to pick up Amanda’s flute from a music shop where she had some maintenance work done on it. Saturday afternoon Charlie got a haircut (so handsome!), then he and I did some grocery shopping while Amanda got her nails done.
Sunday we all did some yardwork together (emptied and put away some straggler terra cotta pots, filled the bird feeders), I put up a pull-up bar on the back side of the swingset (not visible from the front, which is a win), then I made a mallet in the shop, and revived some dead tool batteries while Amanda and Charlie took a nap and baked banana bread.
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