This is how the winter will go on the books, with a storm in late October and the next big one in early March! It was a welcome storm for Marcie; heavy enough to close school and sticky enough for snowballs. All three of us got a little shovelling in, yup, Marcie included. She was in a very helpful mood!
Aside from that fun, it was a work day, and I worked from home, helping a colleague to get his software ready for production deployment, as I had gone through myself the previous day. I discovered an interesting rule about working from home on a snow day -- everyone else is too. This had the neat effect of making the company VPN bandwidth very, very slow. Copying files from my machine to the corporate network drive was a tedious chore that often ended in failure. In the afternoon, I gave up and drove to the office just to copy a few files around inside the network.
To summarize, I developed my first law of corporate thermodynamics. On snowy days,
Tcommute + Tcopy inside network < Tcopy over VPN
where T represents time. Actual values for today, in minutes: 20 + 2 < 45.
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