external factors
Unlike my senator and fellow Replacements fan Tim Kaine, the snow here in VA had rather little impact for me.
Sure, my office location was technically closed Monday and Tuesday, though since telework means snow days really aren’t a thing anymore, I just worked through it from my desk at home, barely noticing a difference. Roads were safe enough for job-holding kids to get to work (though one’s place of business closed a bit early on Monday) without issue, though much of that has to with our being south of the city; the north (including the I-95 corridor between us and DC) got much more accumulation.
The worst thing I’m dealing with is a little extra sinus congestion I’m blaming primarily on spending three hours in the damp woods with it’s interesting mold, fungus, and pollen on Saturday morning, and putting up with folks waiting until the last minute to do things that I wrapped my part of before the holidays in hope of avoiding such inconveniences. Ugh.
Oh, and given increasing Omicron numbers, Marscon, my beloved home convention normally scheduled for MLK weekend, made the call, in concert with the venue, to postpone the event until March, which I’m personally very okay with. I will miss seeing my friends and handful of fans (as I was booked as an entertainer twice over this year, as me and as a Humdinger) in a couple of weeks, but we’d had a bunch of big cancellations, and things just aren’t looking good. Hopefully things will be looking better in a few months…
…I say hopefully, because one simply can’t count on a certain percentage of people to not do the stupid irresponsible thing.
