"Lock the doors and close the blinds -- we're going for a ride..."

It's icy. And snowy.  All the school systems are closed. Even the Federal government is opening late.

But hey -- I'm "essential personnel." Which means I have to make every effort to come in.  I cleaned all the snow and ice off my car (which took a good fifteen minutes alone), did that fun "ski jump" where I made it over that hill of snow where the plow had dumped what it had been clearing, and slip-slided away all the way to work.

I decided to take the long way -- which puts me on more 4-lane highways.  More out of my way, but I thought that maybe it would have been plowed better.

Or at all.

Which, at 7 in the morning, it wasn't mostly.  It was an interesting commute. Certainly invigorating when your tracks ahead of you which you're following suddenly veer two lanes to the left without notice.   Most people I witnessed drove safely.  There were a few folks on the road who were idiots enough to zoom on by. And quite a few more who got themselves stuck facing the wrong way.

But I got here okay.  "Essential personnel," you know.

Except that 11 of my co-workers aren't making it in today due to the weather conditions. Perhaps they're the smart ones...