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Snow day 3. This is getting weird.
Jan. 14th, 2007 01:07 amI think the last time I woke up to white stuff on the ground 3 days in a row I was in Colorado. Some years ago I did two days of on-campus interviews in Fort Collins (north of Denver) and I discovered a few things. One was that driving in snow and ice is something you do get used to. It just takes practice. Which I had, since I flew into Denver & drove to drove to Fort Collins on day one, drove around Fort Collins for 2 days, then back to Denver on day 4. Another thing I discovered was that it's really easy to tell the points of the compass on I-25. The mountains are west. Everything else is flat.
Meanwhile in Redmond, I keep surprising people by driving around in snow and ice. I did skid slightly today; took my foot off the gas, steered into the skid, all was well. I didn't even swerve. Of course, I'm also cautious enough to generally stay in the Redmond area, to warm up the car before leaving - including defrosting windows - and to make sure I don't need to be in a hurry.
A few things did happen today.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skydancer installed the dishwasher that had flummoxed Home Depot's installers. He had a miracle device to create a path for the drain hose through the cabinet wall between the sink and the dishwasher. It's called a "drill", but don't tell anyone, apparently it's a secret super-weapon. We now have clean dishes, yay.
Dinner was spaghetti: I browned ground beef & garlic, added some zinfandel, cooked it down a bit, then put the hamburger mixture into the crock pot with diced tomatoes, a yellow bell pepper, an onion, mushrooms, olives, and tomato sauce. Why the crock pot? Because I was starting this before we dealt with the dishwasher. Crock pot meals tend not need much attention. They also do not have to be in the kitchen, which is a bonus when you're, oh, installing a dishwasher. After the dishwasher was done I served the sauce over bow-tie pasta. After dinner I added more tomato sauce and tomato paste to the sauce. Tomorrow I may add more veggies.
And Heather Alexander's last CD, Everafter, arrived today. I like it. :)
Meanwhile in Redmond, I keep surprising people by driving around in snow and ice. I did skid slightly today; took my foot off the gas, steered into the skid, all was well. I didn't even swerve. Of course, I'm also cautious enough to generally stay in the Redmond area, to warm up the car before leaving - including defrosting windows - and to make sure I don't need to be in a hurry.
A few things did happen today.
skydancer installed the dishwasher that had flummoxed Home Depot's installers. He had a miracle device to create a path for the drain hose through the cabinet wall between the sink and the dishwasher. It's called a "drill", but don't tell anyone, apparently it's a secret super-weapon. We now have clean dishes, yay. Dinner was spaghetti: I browned ground beef & garlic, added some zinfandel, cooked it down a bit, then put the hamburger mixture into the crock pot with diced tomatoes, a yellow bell pepper, an onion, mushrooms, olives, and tomato sauce. Why the crock pot? Because I was starting this before we dealt with the dishwasher. Crock pot meals tend not need much attention. They also do not have to be in the kitchen, which is a bonus when you're, oh, installing a dishwasher. After the dishwasher was done I served the sauce over bow-tie pasta. After dinner I added more tomato sauce and tomato paste to the sauce. Tomorrow I may add more veggies.
And Heather Alexander's last CD, Everafter, arrived today. I like it. :)
