Six to eight inches of snow? I don't think so, but it was a good day for the UGG Fluff Momma boots, inasmuch as I had to trudge through the snow and slush to dig my car out. I'd wanted a pair of these boots since the 1970s when they were last popular at ski resorts, but my parents bought me Moon Boots instead. The insoles on those long ago turned to cement and the metal a rusty mess, so I replaced them with the Sasquatch boots. I think it ended up being more freezing rain than actual snow today, because I spent more time chipping ice off the car than I did brushing off the snow, although it really wasn't too bad.

Three good things about a Saab: Swedes know their defrosters and defoggers, the heat comes on really fast, and the fan at speed four pumps some serious air up to the windshield. It only takes a minute for the ice to start melting enough that the ice scraper makes short work of it. Oh--and heated seats that could scorch your buns on the warmest setting, but that's an option, not standard.

The roads hadn't been plowed, and were pretty slippery during both morning and evening rush, yet I've never felt compelled to get snow tires for this car, nor my previous Saab. A lot of schools were closed, and possibly some local businesses, but NYC was open for business, and most suburbanites made it in from CT, NJ, Westchester, and LI. A guy I work with didn't bother coming in, and waited until 10:30 to email me that (surprise!) there was snow on the ground in Westchester, so he decided to work from home. Wuss. There was snow on the ground at 7:30, too, and the rest of us drove to the train station. Evidently, he planned to do this yesterday because he emailed himself some files he needed to work with today. He's the only one who has no office connectivity from home other than Webmail. We really should force him to use LogMeIn and share his office hard drive, if as he insists, VPN makes his machine at home crash.

Heard from my boss who's at the 4As convention in Orlando, and actually had some good news for him today, and some reasonably good numbers for him to look over, so I sent him a .zip archive with a couple of small Excel spreadsheets, a Word document, and a Powerpoint slide for him to look over this evening, as he requested. I expect he's already looked them over by now. No advertising industry organization would dare host a convention at a hotel that didn't have at least plug-in broadband, if not wi-fi. Not in the U.S., anyway, where even Hampton Inn motels have wi-fi. Overseas is a completely different story regarding connectivity, although Korea's pretty good about it.