guy comes in.. starts to tell me how he had surgery last year.. was sick.. off work.. i tried so hard to appear interested, while reaching for his pile of envelopes, w-2s and such still in envelopes.  

Time long ago, when I worked in the office and met with clients who started talking because they had nothing better to do with their time, I would stand up and they would stand up and I would start walking and they would start walking and before you knew it, we were outside, and I said I’ll talk to you later

Now it’s a lot simpler. I just hang up the call and blame it on technology.

Bruce.... LOL.  With our weather lately, it's really easy to blame a disconnect on that, or on the power going out.  We (Tahoe) are now at the second snowiest winter on record, and with what's predicted by Tuesday - we will break the record.  And, possibly break me, too.

Anna, are you okay? Hunker down and drink heavily… 

We are OK/safe.... just a bit worn out physically & mentally.  No danger of starving to death <w>. 

But the worry of flooding, and possibly structural compromise is draining.  John sandbagged the back of the garage Thursday. My little office was built in 1938 - it's seen worse.  Our house isn't quite as old, but has been thru worse too.

Depending on how much worse this gets tho, there's a lot still heading our way.

It's difficult to drink very much, knowing I might have to go out & use the snow blower.   Those critters can be dangerous and munch up fingers/hands/toes if one isn't careful.  Now shoveling; that I can do completely 'drunk' 😉