More flakes falling outside of my office window. Every week now for at least the past four weeks, there’s been some significant snow event. I’m keeping track of it by the number of “Mommy and Me” classes Cora and I have had cancelled – three so far, with tomorrow’s looking in doubt.

As a kid, I remember wishing that it’d snow, that we’d have some chance of getting a day off of school. The kids in my county have had at least one day off every week for the past month. Lucky them, they’ll be sitting in school until July trying to make up the missed time.

Nowadays my outlook on missed days is different – days missed at work are days that I either need to take out of vacation time or that I need to try to figure out how to make up within the pay period. Software companies’ revenue targets don’t change with Mother Nature’s whims. I was relieved this morning to find out that there was only 2.5 inches on the ground, that I could take an hour to shovel and still make it to work reasonably on time. The office is pretty bare so far – maybe other folks aren’t yet so jaded, or have more vacation time to spare.