Well... that was fun....

Post by **bio** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:02 am

I awoke to about 5" (12.7cm) of snow on the ground.

Around 6am, I broke out the snowblower and hit my house and the neighbors (all 5 of them), then proceded to drive to work (leaving 30 minutes early).

There was about 1/2" (1.27cm) of ice on Upriver Drive, and the average safe speed was 20 mph (32.2 kph).

More snow is coming (it's snowing like mad right now on the Sunset Hill).

How did you fare?

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 9:37 am

I grew old and put Zeb through college on the drive in.

Post by **eddiecanuck** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:48 am

The drive in this morning was alright, had to come all the way down to Upriver though, I'm done with Bigalow for the winter I think.

Last night it did however take me 2 hours to leave work, pick up the wife, and get to the kid's school up by our house. That sucked. But no accidents.

Also, the 6 car accident that closed Bigalow last night... caused by a lady in an SUV trying to pass a string of cars. She lost control, go figure.

ironpants · Post by **ironpants** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:59 am

I live in
The town called Issaquah
It rains

I make Haiku!

ZIPPER · Post by **ZIPPER** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 7:36 am

2-4 inches today
and another 2-4 tonight
I will shovel

Post by **bio** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:49 am

You post a haiku
about your local weather
springtime in my shorts

Post by **bio** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:23 pm

My house as of now:

My front yard

The hedges along the driveway

Casa de Bio

ZIPPER · Post by **ZIPPER** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:32 am

More came overnight!!!

Did most of the West side get snow?

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. -- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

Post by **bio** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:22 am

1/4" of snow in Seattle will paralyze the city for a week. They park their cars on the side of the freeway and walk (I've seen it happen... it's bizarre).

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:40 am

When Adobe was still down on 411 1st in Seattle, they closed once for snow/flooding.

Which was excellent. It was like in-school recess day! The phone queues were turned off in Seattle.

Man, makes me get all nostalgic. I wonder if they still have the Seattle phone lady working for them.

Post by **miftah** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:58 am

That was the most awesome day ever.

Post by **bio** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 10:58 am

I only remember a few people from back in the day... Christian, Chris Mac, and Mr. Wheeler.

There was a woman too... her name escapes me at the moment... but she was somewhat unpleasant to deal with. Fortunately... she worked the Acro Tier 2 and I only had to talk to her once.

Ahhh... nostalgia.

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 11:42 am

Oh... I remember the names.

She's the lady that told EsDavid that he should only talk to her via email. Their cubes were right next to each other.

Let's see.... there was Acrobat Sam! I dug her. Tough as nail ex florida printer. Kind of an androgyne. In fact, one day I was out, and she sat in my cube. We had the same haircut so it confused Scott. (Haircut: Stubble)

The Photodeluxe Tech Writer lady. She had a celtic harp in her cube. She liked to wear pants with big holes in them. She was pretty.

J Brown. The lead for PhotoDeluxe. Dark complected and cute. Kind of a bettie page thing going on.

The Persuasion crew was Kathrine, Kay, and EsDavid. EsDavid once told Joe Levi and I that the white spot on his head was from when he fell to earth and his antenna broke off.

Huh. Okay!

I don't remember many others. There was the Acrobat lead... kinda looked like a surfer guy. I don't remember the names of the FrameMaker folks either, except that MY HATRED BURNS OF ONE THOUSAND AND SIX SUNS for the trainer lady they sent over. Apparently I put the sand very deeply into her sensitive spots, and there was no forgiving me for it. (Well, she WAS there to train her replacements. But in all honesty, we got served the same shitsandwich a couple months later, didn't we. Thanks for taking it out on a buncha mooks what do the same job as you, lady.)

Post by **miftah** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:08 pm

I remember Christian, Chris, Sam and J Brown. I didn't make it over to Seattle as many times as you guys so my experience isn't as alll-encompassing. Chris was incredibly patient with me, which I might recall on my deathbed.

And it seems someone else came over to train on Pagemill/Sitemill, but it might have been Chris. Seems like I remember someone else though.

Encap · Post by **Encap** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 12:43 pm

Yea... I didn't really meet those folks, since I was off in Acro/Frame by that point. But yea... It was like an alternadude and a hot alternachick with face piercings.