White Death

Today the White Death came! And it was White Death. No matter how much we seem to plan for the snow at work, it just never seems to work out. Today we were ready. We watched slowly as the blotches crept across the radar at lunch, and when it started snowing we where on it immediately. However, after starting the salt spreader and trying to run it briefly, we noticed that it just wasn't working. Apparently some water got in the salt and turned it into one big block of concrete. The conveyor belt at the bottom of the holding bin wouldn't budge. So to fix it Ed and I had to dig the whole bin out by hand. By the time we got it working both our shoulders were shot and we couldn't move our fingers.

For some reason, every time it snows, something goes horribly wrong. At this moment I bet Gene is still at the church plowing away. When people arrive for work tomorrow morning the lot will be cleared and everything will look great. Only a few people will every know about the colossal problem that we were faced with at 2:30. I mean eventually we got it working and the snow stopped and we were actually able to make some progress toward seeing ground again, but man was it rough for a few hours.

Basically if it never snows again while I am responsible for doing something about cleaning it up, I will be just fine with that. For as long as I work on the facilities team at VCC I hope it never snows again, not one flake. its not that I mind horribly working hard or responding to problems, its just so predictable that something goes wrong. Maybe what I actually wish is for one time everything would just work.

Ok now I am over my rant and I can move on with life. I sort of wonder how sore I will be tomorrow, but I can deal with that then. On to much more important things, soccer starts again tomorrow. This is going to be the funnest team I have ever played on. For starters I think most of the people playing are pretty good. I might be the worst person on the team. Secondly, I know everyone playing already so I wont have to go through the sometimes tough part of learning everyones name. Thirdly I am just excited to play again. I just really like soccer! So tomorrow the season starts at 10:30! I can't wait. I hope I am not very sore...