Today my office is closed because of weather. Yay, free vacation day! I don’t know the last time I had a snow day. Iowa never canceled classes because of the hospital (they couldn’t let the professors not work and still make the doctors/nurses) and my high school would just have us start two hours late rather than give up that whole day. Remember the big ice storm in like 1993? or 1991? The entire state of Iowa was basically shut down, but I went to school. And my school required every single student to be bused there. Good times.

Though it would’ve been better if I hadn’t learned this by driving into the parking lot and finding no one else there. No one but some random guy from Illinois looking to talk to someone about an issue he had with something. The hell? It was obvious that no one was at the company. If he had called the main number (which surely he would’ve found when he found the address to our headquarters??), he would’ve known we were closed. He wanted my name and phone number so he could talk to me about the issue tomorrow. I was nice to the guy (as we were standing in the wind and the sleet), but that’s not my dept. We have an entire dept of people who can answer the questions/concerns this guy had. I gave him the main phone number and told him where he could find the info he wanted on our website. He seemed happy to have talked to a real person and I went home.

I watched the TV scrolls this morning, never thinking ACT would be listed, and it wasn’t. Apparently I had to call in or check the TV channel websites to learn this information. I just didn’t think they’d close work. Its very wet out now, not icy yet, though I get that it could become icy. Oh well. Free day off. Though I did nearly just stay and do stuff since I was already there. But the cafeteria wouldn’t have been open, and I hadn’t brought my lunch…