nasty

Usually, what passes for "winter" here is more like spring in the rest of the country. I guess that's even true today, even though temperatures are some 15 degrees below normal. It's 43 right now, windy and rainy and generally nasty. With occasional thunder, something that's pretty rare here. Cars coming down from the mountains are covered in snow.

I'm not complaining about the weather outside, considering that it's 14 in Chicago right now. It's suppossed to stay this way for most of the week, but we'll deal with it.

Except that today had to be the day that the heat gave out on the third floor of the office. There are only about half a dozen of us up there on the top floor, and we came in to find that it was 56 degrees inside this morning. Three power outages, probably triggered by everyone firing up space heaters at once, contributed to not a lot getting done before 11:00 am.

Someone is working on it. But he's still at it several hours later, so it's not an easy fix.

At the moment I'm in a nice warm coffee house, having a nice warm bowl of soup. After my 12:30 meeting is over, it might become a day to work from home.