Waiting For The Snow

our foreign adversaries will no doubt have already begun engaging in extra-dastardly shenaniganeering now that all the NSA headquarters school systems have announced cloture

http://wtop.com/closings-and-delays/#closings-MD

GEEZ YALL EVER HEARDA OPSEC

I hope I haven't lost all my shovelin' muscles

time for babby to earn her keep

I have to call into a meeting (where i will -- wait for it -- learn and contribute absolute zero) at 9 a.m. I will be watching baseball on mute simultaneously.

blizzard cancelled in NYC as usual

http://gothamist.com/2017/03/14/march_blizzard_falls_short.php

All your blizzard are belong to us, apparently. Like an impenetrable wall of white this morning.

can confirm that it is not fucking around out there

frightful

ffs, I'm having to cancel a very important hospital appointment with the orthotics dept for the head protection Alex desperately needs. I have been badgering his paediatrician's office for the last 6 months to get this and it just happens to be a total whiteout today of all days. Time to tell Snow to fuck off.

pretty angry that we're open today tbh

I thought conditions would be much worse on the East Side tbh, all the schools are closed here.

it's not impossible but it's bitter, windy af and transport must be bad and it'll last for what, a couple of days? let us hibernate ffs

lets end up dying in a road accident just to keep some semblance of "carrying on" for the sake of it, eh?

two sides of the same coin - moaning that this country isn't set up for cold snowy weather or trying to macho thru it pointlessly just to prove that business must go on

Lead partner had the foresight to make us take our laptops home so I am currently "working", when in fact watching Aguirre, The Wrath of God wrapped up in bed.

that's the spirit

I just came to work because I love snow, tbh.

If I could work from home when the temperature was above zero and just come in when it’s like this, I’d be perfectly happy.

i like snow, i just don't like work

I was filming the kid using a beach float as a sledge on what is locally known as the mountains yesterday. He can barely get any speed going but keeps trudging back up the hill in blizzard conditions. It doesn't seem much fun at all, if he wasn't pissing himself laughing most of the time you'd think it was some grim cut from a Bela Tarr joint.

Fingers crossed we'll get sent home early today.

that's beautiful xp

time to tell snow to fuck off

Working from home, heating up full whack, all the food I need for maybe two or three days and some wine in. Fully prepared to not go out again until it works.

We've a good view over the park and I keep stopping to watch random dogs going mental in the snow, quite enjoying it tbh, but I'm really glad I have nothing urgent or pressing to be getting done that requires being out of the house.

Oh which park? I might come and wrote a rude message in the snow

My own response has been to put out a bird feeding station first gotten as a gift over a year ago and hitherto unused. Still awaiting a first customer. Might move it nearer the trees

When I was putting some bread and seed out earlier I could feel the waft a blackbird flying right past my ear. When birds are in a life and death struggle they are not half as shy of humans.

weather forecast here keeps suggesting impending snowmageddon but the bastard clouds are totally failing to deliver as yet

lots of birds around here though atm, got some redwing hopping around in the leaves outside my window

cool that in all the breathless news reporting on this i’ve seen so far that the phrase ‘climate change’ has not been uttered once

the smoking shelter just round the corner from my office blew away in the wind earlier

Red weather warning here in South Wales. Certainly looks interesting later this afternoon.

"Working" from home and kids are off school but it's so ridiculously cold out there with the wind (minus 13°C!) that they both came in after less than half an hour.

Imago - well heath rather than park really.

My office window overlooks the entrance to the Malaysian embassy and it was pretty clear that a group of people going there yesterday had never experienced proper snow before, the excitement and joy was quite touching even as I was desperately hoping for this shit to melt by the weekend.

Oh, there was a redwing in my garden an hour ago!

First customer was a great tit, btw - only it and the starling have had the courage to feast as yet. A number of goldfinches have been watching on warily

It was supposed to snow this morning here but it hasn't, so the snow from Tuesday/Wednesday has started melting and it treacherously icy outside. All the trains were fucked this morning anyway though so I'm working from home today, although that's not particularly notable since I work from home 3 days a week anyway. I was supposed to go in to the office today though.

There's supposed to be like 12 hours of straight snow/showers tomorrow and I did have plans to go out on the piss in London on Saturday and looks like that's probably not happening.

The goldfinches moved in as one! What a charm

We've got a pair of magpies living round here somewhere and they were both in my back garden this morning.

We have a bird feeder attached to the fence but birds round here are picky bastards and they never touch it.

a standalone birdfeeder seems to be just the ticket! it's been a very busy lunchtime

keep listing 'em imago

does UK redwing ~= US redwing blackbird?

no they're different species. uk redwing is mostly a winter visitor from scandinavia and looks p much like swainson's thrush but with red armpits.

and a dashing supercilium

rw blackbird is a madeleine for me. I hear that weird trill and I am back in minnesota sitting on the dock of our crappy little summer cabin

just had a grey wagtail on the flat roof outside, also long-tailed tit and goldcrest in the last couple of days

all of those are joys

in my household, goldcrests are known as 'goldfats' because they are a bit piggy (despite being the UK's smallest bird) and it's always wonderful to see them when out and about (which is pretty much every time we're in a rural location - they get everywhere)

i love small birds that are fatties

imago if you ever make nyc i will introduce you to my friend steve (who is in my iphone contacts as Steve Likes Birds to distinguish him from the other steves) and also introduce you to my excellent pet starling Merlin (whose current favorite phrase is 'western kisses').

and now we've just had a treecreeper! srsly there are shitloads of birds here at the moment

Left work early yesterday, can't get to work today, doubt I'll get to work tomorrow, nils frahm show cancelled too. Lines of people in the local shop stocking up on booze, me included. This event has not been good for my abstinence

Lots of blackbirds

Been hearing woodpeckers more lately. More power to the lads.

western kisses! I would be most honoured

all time best merlin utterance was probably 'merry christmas my kenyans' (never repeated, oddly) or 'sorry about the snake universe' (still in heavy rotation)

poll

also, pix