Needless to say, the company decided it might be prudent to send us home a bit early, so as to avoid being stuck in traffic or worse. Which was rather nice of them, really – more than I expected.
However, being work… It didn’t go according to their plan.

We got the email at about 4PM – half an hour to an hour before the normal “go” time, depending on what schedule one is on. People quickly packed up and headed out… And were trapped.

Turns out that the turnstile that secures our building from the parking lot (no, really) had frozen. Frozen shut.
Meaning we could not get to our cars.

Some people decided to try walking around the huge fence to another gate, and seeing if that worked… It didn’t. It, too, was frozen shut. A few others decided to walk even further, around the whole fenceline to the guard shack, then back into the parking lot.

Me? I went inside, called Security to let them know, then waited – in the warm office – for twenty minutes until it was all fixed.

Kind of funny, kind of expected.
Someday’s, it amazes me that we ever get anything done correctly.

This weekend Nadia and I marked four months together by going up to Mt Charleston. We hiked around for a while, played in the snow, and generally had a damn fun time driving around. At the start, I admit, I thought I had missed my turn – thankfully, I hadn’t and my memory served me well. The back way to the lodge was right where I thought it would be.

I performed a good deed that day too – helped a stuck motorist with a quick jump. They said many other cars had passed them by that morning before I pulled over to help out. Pretty sad, particularly seeing as how we were up the side of a mountain, at least an hour away from civilization and no cell service to speak of. You would think people would band together, but no.

We had an early dinner (or late lunch) at the lodge, and it was fairly romantic: the only problem being some fat broad from Georgia blathering on at the top of her damn lungs. It was bad enough that Nadia, who is always calm, cool, collected and seeing the bright side of everything (my polar opposite, basically) was getting annoyed.

Then we came home, and I was hit with a rather bad sinus infection. Pain in my head, my nose, my ears… I tried to play it off – unsuccessfully – so she went out and got me some medication while I napped.

Then we cuddled, and it was Sunday.

I spent Sunday in a cold medicine induced haze.