This collection of entries is from December 05, 2003.
I usually get to work about 30 minutes early. I don't mean to, it's just since I drive 40 miles one-way, almost all on the limited-access tollway system, you just don't know how traffic is going to go minute by minute.
Last night, I asked Carol (who gets up way before me in the morning) that if there was snow on the ground then wake me up because I'll need the extra time for the traffic problems.
5 o'clock this morning Carol wakes me up to tell me there's no snow, but it's still raining and there may be ice out there and the travel times were going up.
Fine. So, I decide I'll leave a half hour early and that way I have a one hour cushion for my drive time.
I got to work one hour early. There's no snow. There's no ice. There's no traffic. By lunchtime, there wasn't a cloud in the sky!
Crap. On top of that, there was nothing to do. We didn't get any data to get machines into the staging area to get the staging crew to work, so we sent home almost everyone.
Sucks when you're a contractor and you get paid by the hour. Sucks, I tells ya.