Being that winter doesn’t officially start for a couple of weeks, I’m not sure where I’m going with this. But forget the “official” start of winter — joking with a customer last night, we both agreed we were damn glad the season was here, and with snow falling outside, it’s hard to dispute: not only does it feel like winter, it looks like winter.
You know what’s unique about winter? It’s the season we encounter twice a year. No, really, think about it. We’ve already had winter this year. According to Google, Spring ‘07 began March 21st, which means that, in terms of winter, we’ve already had two and a half plus months of winter this year. We’ve also had snow already this year (and good lord, how many people wrote “first snow of the year” for blog posts today? Too many!), a quick blog archive search shows posts relating to snow events on March 8th, February 25th, February 12th and February 2nd.
So, this is actually the fifth snow day of the year.
I was supposed to work today. Those plans got scrapped when my rental decided to do a 180-degree spin on Warren Road, which hadn’t been cleared well. As work would require a lot of travel on “back roads” which probably wouldn’t be in much better conditions, I chose to play it safe rather then sorry (well, that and Greg refused to pay my deductible to the rental company if I damaged the car).
