I woke up late this morning, broke 100 traffic laws racing to work, and....

[Richard Steele]

No one was there.

Apparently, the new Union got us an extra day off for Christmas
and no one bothered to tell me.

BWAHAHA!!!!:rofl:

Life is strange.

[HopeHoops]

1. All the more coffee for YOU!

[Richard Steele]

2. Not so much about coffee, but the sentiment applies....

The entire CITY is empty at 7:00am Monday morning!
It was like I had the place to myself.

I hit my favorite grocery store and got my pic of the white asparagus,
hit my favorite thrift store and got my pic of the VHS tapes,
and hit the book store and got the latest issues of two magazines
they only stock two copies per month of. Magazines I ordinarily
have to order over the Internet.

One is about "traditional archery"; a magazine for those of us
who like to hunt the old way, like I do....making recurved bows
from salvaged pallets, and chipping arrowheads from 50s-era Coke bottles.

The other one is a "gentlemans magazine", if you get my drift....
not something I would ordinarly go into DETAIL about
here in the refined, genteel environment of the DU Lounge.

[HopeHoops]

3. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge)

You mean "Gin & Tonic Monthly"?

[struggle4progress]

4. Durham got about 3 inches of snow Saturday PM or early Sunday AM

It was beautiful: three inches of fluffy snow on rooftops and in all the bare trees -- perfect winter wonderland scenes here

Surprisingly, the city was ready for it. Even my little residential street had been salted before I got up Sunday

I check my driveway, see my street and the main street nearby all good for driving, check my church webpage and find nothing out of the ordinary there, so I head off for church. It;'s a 20-25 minute drive in heavy traffic, maybe a 15 minute drive in normal traffic: the delays are always backups at the traffic lights. Clear roads with nobody but nobody on them: it takes me ten minutes. I get to church a few minutes before services are supposed to start: there's not a soul there. No pastor, no musician, no choir, no nobody. Mine are the only car tracks in the parking lot. I wait a few minutes and drive back home. I check my email: Travel conditions are very unsafe. No worship this morning

Three inches of fluffy snow. Completely clear roads. And Durham shuts down

:rofl:

I suppose I should be glad the folk down here finally learned not to go out on icy roads

:rofl:

I still remember the daily commute when I lived up your way: Logan to Main then zigzag to 6th across the 8th St bridge and zigzag over towards the campus, on roads that weren't always scraped or sanded or salted

[petronius]

5. That's extremely impressive: I didn't know

there even were a hundred traffic laws... :)

[Skittles]

6. I'd be worried if they were able to let me go an extra day