Despeckling break...

I've been up since 4:30 am, and the translation is complete. I have about 40 minutes before it is due in my client's inbox, but I figured I'd take a 5-minute break - both temporal and mental - to put some distance, however small, between doing the work and checking it.

When I let Shiloh out this morning, it was snowing lightly, and it still is, although there appears to be only about 1-2 inches of accumulation on the car. Shiloh, by the way, doesn't like the cold very much, although she does seem to like romping in the snow when the sun is out.

She has also developed a maneuver that consists of hopping up with her front paws, onto her hind legs, and then stepping rapidly forward a few paces as she falls forward, to try to stay vertical while scanning the area ahead with her eyes. It's almost as if she's trying to get a running start somewhere.

Anyway, Galina was planning on going to Durango today to buy a new outside door. I may go with her if she decides to go despite the snow (isn't there a storm warning in effect? gotta go check!).

Ah, well, it's time to go back to the face of the salt mine.

Cheers...

UPDATE of 8:47 am: According to weather.com:

The storm system that brought the heavy snow to the Pacific Northwest yesterday will bring a chance of snow and occasionally gusty winds to the Intermountain West, with the heaviest snows expected in the Rockies of western Colorado and western Wyoming, where over a foot of new snow is possible before Tuesday evening.

A foot? A mere foot? Piffle, and other suitable epithets! (And did you catch that waffling "a chance of snow" so typical of weather flacks?)

Haiku-ing around...

The snow keeps falling. Shiloh romps between the flakes. A dog's life can be fun. Weather flacks promise upwards of a foot of snow before the storm ends.

Cheers...

Data point...

After lunch, Galina and I went outside to shovel the snow out from around the car. I estimate 4-5 inches have fallen so far. The intensity of the white stuff coming down has picked up a bit too, so much so that the signal for my Internet link appears to have been overcome by too much absorption between There and Here.

Good thing I still have a data plan for my BlackBerry. :^)

Cheers...

UPDATE of 4:19 pm: If anything, the snowfall intensity has gone up yet another notch, but connectivity has returned. Whatever the glitch was, it wasn't in the link. Still, it's good having that data plan!