Where Am I?

Well....    I like my job.  I like to help people.  I suppose that I like it enough where those people that are irritating don't bother me enough even to note them in the customers suck live journal.  Tuesday we're having some super high muckymucks visit.  I've been asked to be a show piece.  I told them that I would turn up my hearing aid [sarc] and put on my game face.

Snow!!!  We've had enough to make the scenery look purty, but not enough to cause excessive problems.  Kitsap was mentioned in the news for the number of spinnouts.  I headed out early this morning to get coffee for Juli.  Not much to worry about for driving, in fact I'll still say I have had no experience in snow driving in my subaru since I bought it in 2001.

Hmmm.   I've had four different vehicles in my life.

1972 Pinto hatchback:  I learned to snow drive in Bellingham with this one.  Even though it was rear wheel drive, the weight ratio on the axles was nearly 50/50.  It was great driving in the snow.  The only problem I had was on the second day of cold weather when the fuel line froze up.  It was a simple yet time consuming fix.  I dropped in some fuel additive and pumped the gas peddle every 10 minutes for an hour.  Then she started, no problem.  Love driving in Bellingham in the snow.

1984 Toyota Tercel Hatchback:  Loved to drive in the snow with this one.  We had a BIG snow in 1985.  I volunteered to drive all over Bainbridge Island to pick up our associates and bring them to work.  I had that buggy for 14 years, until it was rear ended on Sedgewick on a dry spring day.

1995 Dodge Colt hatchback:  Sucky car, even though the previous owner tricked it out with sport wheels, tinted windows, and detailing.  It would rattle for about thirty seconds after hitting a bump.  Snow driving?  Never had a chance.  Actually I didn't want one.  I had that one for 2 years until it was totaled by another driver on Sedgewick.

1997 Subaru Impreza Outback Sport:  As I've said, I haven't had a chance yet.  But with all wheel drive it should be very good.

It's raining now.  Juli doesn't have to go to work until 2:30, so we're relaxing and watching the Hawks play.  So far we're ahead, but it's getting ugly.

We've been discussing Christmas gifts.  It's getting late so we need to scramble a bit.

A Pool of Light in a Sea of Darkness.

We lost power for about 20 minutes earlier tonight.  The wind has not yet picked up into the "Wind Advisory" category that we will be under in about 2 hours.

When the power came back on it killed Juli's little alarm clock.  I ran out to get her a new one.  As it turns out, our little neighborhood and the one across the street seem to be the only ones with power.  I'm sure there are a string of neighborhoods from us to the substation though.  It's just that one block west on the highway and Port Orchard is dark.  I stopped into a very dark Fred Meyer parking lot to get Juli her new clock.  I suppose I should have picked up a backup battery for it.

I did prepare for the storms earlier today though.  I have  a cooler in the garage with food in it, so we don't need to open the fridge.  I picked up some oil for our lanterns.  I even found some neato wind up flashlights. We broke them out when we had our brief power outage.  It's a cold blue light, not warm like candle light.  It's great to read by though.

The cable is out, so we can't watch Amazing Race.  I went online to find out who got eliminated.  I'll tell Juli after there is no hope left for watching it.