{"id":7748,"date":"2016-12-16T22:20:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T06:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=7748"},"modified":"2016-12-19T09:53:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:53:37","slug":"christmas-is-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericallen.x10host.com\/?p=7748","title":{"rendered":"Christmas is close, plus a snowpocalypse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we have the decorations out, but no tree yet. I think we have most of the presents for the kids.<\/p>\n<p>Another weekend over. Pretty quiet-Fri. was home, S to bed, very tired. Asleep early. Sat., up, school meeting, E to hairdresser&#8217;s, S to friends&#8217; and the Nutcracker. Libe, sat and read, get E, lunch at Pizzicato, browse, shop, bins, pick up S, dinner, S to bed, watch drone racing. Up Sun., skipped church, cleaned the house, watched more drone racing. E and S home, clean more-wash, vacuum, tidy, dishes, dinner, fold clothes, S to bed, and here we are. To bed late, up on time, to work, work, one of the people in our group is leaving. I discovered that E&#8217;s reading glasses work for my right eye only (my left eye is fine up close, bad long, and the right one is fine long), so I took out\u00a0the left lens, and now reading, phone and computer screens are super crisp.<\/p>\n<p>So, home, sis got us a Christmas gift that got recalled, dinner, S to bed, check out the Mirage (working great), laundry and dishes, bed. Up, missed bus, alternate route, work. Gonna snow tomorrow afternoon. Home, dinner, S to bed, laundry-really the same &#8216;ol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And Weds. was awfully fun. Got to work, work, started snowing about 1ish. Left about 2:30, thought taking a different route home. Big. Mistake. When Portland gets snow, everything locks up, and in this case, everyone left for home at the same time-the map was a sea of red. I sat on a bus for an hour to get to downtown. Another hour to get to another bus. That bus went onto snow route, so I got off and walked to get another bus. Waited, and waited, so I walked. 3 miles in a snowstorm. Nice to have those crampons. The 3 mile walk was the shortest bit of the trip. It was nice, though, quiet, and I was properly dressed. Brought back memories of walking back from the Jadrych&#8217;s in high school. M likes it too. Saw one big crash at the bottom of a closed hill. And a jackknifed truck at the bottom of the hill by our apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Working from home Thu., got the car from a friends&#8217;, shopped, home, work. The usual work from home. Going out to get a laptop for E-failed. It&#8217;s getting slushy. More work, dinner, S to bed. Woke up early, E was snoring, so no sleep. Easy in, snowy and icy, but crampons rock. Work.<\/p>\n<p>I have a big list of things to do, and a gamelan party tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we have the decorations out, but no tree yet. I think we have most of the presents for the kids. Another weekend over. Pretty quiet-Fri. was home, S to bed, very tired. Asleep early. Sat., up, school meeting, E to hairdresser&#8217;s, S to friends&#8217; and the Nutcracker. 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