Nyanko's Basket

Driving in the snow is really interesting. That is almost all.

Well, except for the fact that wao has helped my ungrateful, lazy self by cleaning up and sorting out most of my living room/entrance to save her sanity (cries of "mpitten~" can be faintly heard).

Work is paradoxically getting more interesting as fewer people are around - I have a lot more things to work on now (covering for others) and I finally have some time to get around to projects that I wanted to do but didn't have time for previously because fewer people are around to raise questions and/or distract me from work. I am gaining a new awareness of the power of makefiles.

Started posting this from Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in Ohio (though what's international about it, I don't really know...) and continuing from Grand Rapids, MI, and then eventually at my cousin's house. What a long post. ^^;;

( Skiing at Whistler Blackcomb )

I came back from Whistler pretty thrilled about it, especially since I had a lot of delicious hot chocolate with whipped cream. ^^ Things were pretty quiet both at work and in terms of social life, although it did snow quite a lot on December 1st, to the point that it was a winter wonderland:

( Ooh, pretty snow~! )

I went to San Jose for a work weekend, and met testing4l, gemlikeflame, relsqui and zigdon there and much fun was had over Fluxx and Mongolian BBQ. Though I must say relsqui and testing4l are pretty good at changing the rules to suit themselves. ;)

One of my friends was going back to Singapore the following weekend, so we organized a trip to a gun range for her, since she wouldn't be able to do that in Singapore. And so it was that I fired a weapon for the first time (since I never did in NS), even if it was a 9mm pistol:

( At the gun range )

Snow and Shooting

I left for Michigan last night to spend a few days with my cousin, and so here I am. :)

You can't really see it in this picture (taken using my phone's bad camera), but...

IT SNOWED!!! :D

( Did I mention the camera is bad? )

It was an interesting experience cycling to work in the (light) snowfall, mixed with some rain. I had lots of tiny patches of snow all over my bag, jersey, pants trousers, helmet and bicycle, but they all melted away in good time. ^^;;;

And yes, this is the first time I've ever seen and felt real snow. :P

Edit: Apparently I was lucky, though... The weather's worsening, and itsacz reported seeing hail when he was going home. There's even a severe weather advisory out right now here, and the temperature's dropping (32 F feeling like 25 F [0 C feeling like -4 C]).

I wonder what'll happen tomorrow...