We Haz Snow!

[davidgillon]

Not a lot admittedly, but I thought I might have to go the entire winter without seeing any and I'm not sure that's ever happened before.

'The Beast from the East' isn't really living up to its billing at the moment, we had some heavy-ish snow when I woke up about 10AM, but mostly it's been very small stuff, and while there was a definite wind from the North driving it earlier, right now it's mostly just milling about as it falls. The grass is covered, the roads and paths aren't. But the forecast is for two more days of this, so it could gradually mount up to a decent amount - not that it takes much to cause disruption given the south only sees significant snowfall about once every six years pr so.

I had my sister on line last night saying she'd been up in the loft with my mother and could she (my mother) get rid of my university notes. As they're pushing 40 years out of date in Comp Sci I said yes, in practise there's nothing I really want to keep except my final year project if they came across it (I have a feeling I already saved that for posterity a few years ago, but I have no idea where I put it). She rang later to ask a few more details on what it might look like and said she was sitting next to "the Grim Ripper", which was worth a smile.

I had one of those "crap, is that the time," moments last night. I've been adding a few user-made mods to Train Simulator (mostly new locomotives) and quite a few weren't showing up. I know that for most of those I just need to add a file telling the game they're there (it didn't used to have the ability to use stuff on the fly, so most enthusiasts have never gotten around to writing those files), but the utility I was using to add the files wasn't finding a lot of the stuff I knew I'd added. I was trying to figure out why some showed and some didn't, when I remembered the utility has an 'indexing' process to find them, rather than just looking in the folder structure, I'd run that when I first installed it, but not since. So I ran it, and sat there and waited, for about three hours (during which I downloaded and installed yet more mods). And then I sat and looked through all the new stuff it had found, and added a few of them to confirm things now worked, and then I looked at the time and it was Oh Crap O'Clock. At least I didn't have any trouble getting to sleep for once!

Alexa is currently advising me it's freezing and snowing, I could actually have worked that out for myself.

Comments

[rmc28]

We have had some extremely small snowflakes falling (so small you couldn't see them from inside, only noticed them when I took something out to the wheelie bins) but nothing has stuck.

[davidgillon]

We had decently sized flakes up until midday-ish, then it turned to smaller stuff you could still see if you looked outside. When I stuck my head outside just before sunset it had turned to fine, penetrating rain, but if the temperature is sub-zero (just) then that's likely to turn everything into a skating rink in the morning.

My honeysuckle has rather pathetically collapsed under the 'weight' of snow.