Grazing Rites

I had every intention of going to work today; God on the other hand had other plans for me.

I woke up to a semi-frantic phone call from Mindi – it seems multiple attempts at public transit had failed and so she had tried to unearth the car, only to get thoroughly stuck less than 100 meters from the house. I threw on some warm clothes and pushed the car back to its berth and all 3 of us called in with a snow day.

For the kid it means saving money with one less daycare day, for Mindi it’s a paid day off, and for me it’s a lost day I’ll have to make up later. I could have attempted to go in but Mindi had reservations about it and my stomach wasn’t feeling particularly good given my early morning and rather sudden activities. I only had one appointment today that wasn’t particularly urgent or difficult to reschedule.

Mindi having been left in charge of her office while her boss is away, still had to manage things remotely. After a couple hours it became obvious that she was going to have to go in despite the snow. So in the end she just had a late start, with a late end, while the kid and I had an unscheduled Mr. Mom day.

Then I had the genius idea, after doing some HDTV research for Boxing Day, to dust off the old Firefly DVDs.

So things worked out in the end for everyone.

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