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Mar. 1st, 2018 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyI'm back! Many many people took pity on me. My dad, on hearing I was going for the bus instead of the train, and my mum was going to come up with me because she had to go shopping, decided to dig his car out and give us a lift. So that was nice. But the bus journey was horrendous. It wasn't heated, so it was just sitting in the icy cold for an hour, trying to keep warm with my coat and scarf. Then getting off, it was a half hour walk from the bus station to where I work, in the snow, and I tried not to let myself slow down too much because I needed to know exactly how long it took to get from the bus station to my workplace, so I could work out when I'd need to leave for the bus home. I was not happy by the time I got there.
But it turns out they weren't having a great time either. I felt my phone ringing just as I walked up - early - to the building, and it turned out to be my manager, to ask me 'how I was fixed'. I don't even know what that means now, looking back - it was too late for me to just not come in - but he did immediately ask how I was getting home, and said he'd spoken to an exec upstairs about closing reception early so I could go. Which I was glad about, because the bus journey was bad enough at midday, I wasn't excited to find out how it was after it got dark. He said if I wanted to go for about 4 that would be good, and I had checked and found out there was a bus around then, but said I'd need to leave at 3.30pm to get it, and he said that was fine. Which was nice. Apparently that morning they'd had the water in the (insanely cold) bottom floor ladies bathroom just straight up freeze, and they'd had to organise a heater in there, with a wire powering it back into our office. The catering staff hadn't been able to come in for the canteen, so our Facilities team had had to open some stuff up so they could have toast and crumpets, and then go out and arrange about £300 worth of sandwiches for lunch. Which apparently everyone who was there was eating in droves, because it was free. From the sounds of it, if my manager hadn't been so busy, he'd have called me and said maybe I didn't need to come in - it would probably have been too late by that point anyway, but I appreciate the thought. I've told him that if it's the same tomorrow though, and the trains are cancelled, I don't think I'll be able to go in, as the trip's not worth it. Happily though, the trains were back running again between my stop and Leeds in the afternoon, so I managed to get a heated train back home even quicker than a bus. Hurrah.
Now I am home, and our boiler has frozen. My dad is trying to fix it, with the man who installed it on the phone, by cutting through a pipe. Idk. But it's very cold.
The problem is just not knowing how long this is going to go on for. My manager said it was supposed to be better tomorrow, but the weather is still saying there's a red alert into the weekend, and news places are saying things will be like this for another 48 hours. Even if it doesn't snow again, and is a bit warmer tomorrow, the snow there right now probably isn't going to thaw before tomorrow - although I suppose they might have had more chance to clear it. And I saw a weather forecast saying it would snow again today at 11pm, my mum saw one that said 6pm, and my ON saw one that said 4pm. So who knows. It doesn't seem like the weather people really do either. We're just going to have to play it by ear tomorrow. But at least it'll be Friday.
Some good things from today and yesterday:
But it turns out they weren't having a great time either. I felt my phone ringing just as I walked up - early - to the building, and it turned out to be my manager, to ask me 'how I was fixed'. I don't even know what that means now, looking back - it was too late for me to just not come in - but he did immediately ask how I was getting home, and said he'd spoken to an exec upstairs about closing reception early so I could go. Which I was glad about, because the bus journey was bad enough at midday, I wasn't excited to find out how it was after it got dark. He said if I wanted to go for about 4 that would be good, and I had checked and found out there was a bus around then, but said I'd need to leave at 3.30pm to get it, and he said that was fine. Which was nice. Apparently that morning they'd had the water in the (insanely cold) bottom floor ladies bathroom just straight up freeze, and they'd had to organise a heater in there, with a wire powering it back into our office. The catering staff hadn't been able to come in for the canteen, so our Facilities team had had to open some stuff up so they could have toast and crumpets, and then go out and arrange about £300 worth of sandwiches for lunch. Which apparently everyone who was there was eating in droves, because it was free. From the sounds of it, if my manager hadn't been so busy, he'd have called me and said maybe I didn't need to come in - it would probably have been too late by that point anyway, but I appreciate the thought. I've told him that if it's the same tomorrow though, and the trains are cancelled, I don't think I'll be able to go in, as the trip's not worth it. Happily though, the trains were back running again between my stop and Leeds in the afternoon, so I managed to get a heated train back home even quicker than a bus. Hurrah.
Now I am home, and our boiler has frozen. My dad is trying to fix it, with the man who installed it on the phone, by cutting through a pipe. Idk. But it's very cold.
The problem is just not knowing how long this is going to go on for. My manager said it was supposed to be better tomorrow, but the weather is still saying there's a red alert into the weekend, and news places are saying things will be like this for another 48 hours. Even if it doesn't snow again, and is a bit warmer tomorrow, the snow there right now probably isn't going to thaw before tomorrow - although I suppose they might have had more chance to clear it. And I saw a weather forecast saying it would snow again today at 11pm, my mum saw one that said 6pm, and my ON saw one that said 4pm. So who knows. It doesn't seem like the weather people really do either. We're just going to have to play it by ear tomorrow. But at least it'll be Friday.
Some good things from today and yesterday:
- Someone had built a snowman on the banking just across from our building.
- I saw a rabbit in the snow.
- I saw a pheasant in the snow.
- This article about snowy conditions is probably one of the best I've ever read. I WISH MY BOSS WOULD HEED IT.
- Polar bears having fun.
- Detroit: Become Human out 25th May, instant great day, forget about the rest.
