Getting ready for the next one

Well, another winter storm is on the way, and this one is expected to dump 5-9 inches in the valley (and 8-12 in the mountains) on us by tomorrow night. Given that the last one was expected to dump less than an inch, I think we can expect on the higher end of that. We are not expecting the city to actually be able to keep the streets clear with this snowfall. This time at least, the city has its plows and deicers ready and will pretreat the streets. Hopefully, the roads won't be quite as dangerous.

Of course, Julia's department is having its holiday party this afternoon. It should be well over before the snow really starts; the storm isn't expected to hit until close to midnight. So we may even be able to see a holiday exhibit some of her students told us about. That would be neat.

I heard from the insurance company of the lady who hit Buster. I need to get an estimate (Julia is getting recommendations) and get back in touch with them. So far, they are being fairly nice about it, even if they originally wanted my insurance info -- I didn't give it to them because Buster was parked.

Other than that, not much else is going on right now.

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No snow *yet*

It hasn't started snowing here yet. But it wasn't expected to start until around midnight. I got a good look at the radar and it looks like a PacMan (tm) is going to eat Washington. Could be fun.

Today's been a pretty uneventful day. Julia's office had its holiday party, so I went and did the university spouse thing. Took aniseed bread and a cheese platter with hummus. There were two cheese platters, but that was okay. Several people asked for the recipe for the bread, so I will be sending copies of that to work with Julia on Monday. I will probably have to print it out through her computer as my printer driver was corrupt and I don't seem to be able to get a non-corrupt copy from the printer server. grrrph

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