Wow, it's early!

Sometimes, things manage to work out.

Sean got up to head for the airport this morning, and was going to take the Civic and park it at the airport, and I'd have the loaner car for the week. I'd forgotten to grab a couple of accessories for my gps out of the Civic, and was going to have him just swing them by our front door for me to grab. I ended up walking over to the parking garage with him instead, and am glad I did.

I got into the Audi to pull it in front of the building, and there was no power to the battery. *sigh* So, we got him further downtown so that he could catch a cab to the airport, and I have the Civic parked in front of the building. I don't have jumper cables, which I've needed to fix for a long time, so I'm buying a set of cables and a jump pack for both cars tonight. It's a reasonable investment given the MN winters.

But if I hadn't gone out with him, and hadn't tried to get the Audi out of the garage, I wouldn't have known the battery was dead until I headed out for work, so it all worked out. And now I'm wide awake, and it's just 5 am. I'd like to get to work a little early this morning, though not too early, so I'm going to sit here and knit for the next few minutes.

I didn't knit as much as I'd like over the weekend, but I'm sure I'll catch up this week. My sock knitting classes start tomorrow night, so I'm hoping that goes okay. Sean gave me sock yarn out of his stash, so I'm hopeful to knit a pair of socks for him.

I suspect I'll be in bed early tonight, though, since I woke up at 4 am.

It's beautiful this morning...

I survived Deth Storm 2009.

My boss told me to leave work at 2, and it took me 75 minutes to get home. I did not take any of the interstates, preferring Hwy 7 instead. Sure, Hwy 7 wasn't plowed, but at least I was moving. Almost got stuck a few times, and the snow was falling fast. Our cute little front-wheel-drive Civic performed admirably, getting me home safely. She's a good car.

A few hours later, Sean was not so lucky in his driving excursion, driving to a restaurant with his co-workers. He chose to take the Infiniti G35 (our fun RWD sportscar, not at all made for MN winters), and regretted that choice through the whole trip. He spent a lot of time stuck at intersections, and he was not a happy boy when he finally got home.

That's me, in the photo below, & the G35, on Forest Lake about a month ago.

When he came home, I told him that during my drive, I had never wished more for an AWD vehicle. After this latest travail with the G35, I've now been cleared to research AWD vehicles in Mpls. As much fun as the G35 is in good weather (and oh, how I'll miss the sound of that engine), it's not practical for us to have. We didn't notice it in Chicago as much - not because it snows less, but because Sean was travelling more, and travelling overseas more. He's working in Mpls and Chicago more now, and is home more often, and so we use a second car more often.

There is a knitting part to yesterday, honestly! I came home, finished up a little work, and took an hour's nap. Then I got up, ate, and proceeded to sit down and produce 40 more rows of knitting while watching movies (Glengarry Glen Ross, Criminal). That puts me at almost 180 rows on the scarf. I'm now a little over 25% of the way. With any luck, I'll get some quality knitting time Saturday evening and Sunday.

I'm very glad it's Friday. It's been a challenging week, trying to figure out how to produce a February forecast with most of the information seemingly unattainable. Still, I'm making a go of it, and will hopefully have something reasonable by noon today. We'll see how good my forecast is next week. :)

Sean hopped on an early flight to Chicago this morning and will either be home at 7 or 9, depending on how early he gets to ORD this afternoon and whether there's room on the earlier flight. I'll get some good knitting time in waiting for him to come home.