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[geekchick]

Today's commute: two and a half hours. Mostly the roads were just wet but the traffic volume was insane. Coming back south from Sterling though, it was getting kind of nasty; I did all kinds of sliding around on the side roads, even though I was being extremely cautious, and there was a bit of slush on 28 already. At least now I know what it takes to merit a "jam factor: red" on XM's traffic channel. They were reporting a two hour trip in on 66 east from Gainesville to the Beltway and backups on the outer loop from the mixing bowl to the American Legion bridge, along with huge backups pretty much everywhere else. I'm thankful that I don't commute into DC, or even in that general direction. First snowfall of the year always results in a giant mess, but hopefully from now on it won't be quite as bad. Note that I don't say anything remotely like "okay", since around here we don't get nearly enough snow to learn how to drive in it properly.

On a happier note, I'm finally back in my own office. Yay! *spazz hands* The repainting ended up being "checking for mold, tearing out drywall, treating for mold, installing new drywall, and repainting". What in theory should've been a couple of days ended up being more than a month.