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How much I hate driving to somebody else's factory/office to work. This working from home thing has me spoiled rotten. I'm into the second week of a 6 week contract designing a prototype gold mining machine---and I have to drive 30 miles to work in their facility. The first week, I just about froze to death.---My office at home is right beside the heating plant for my upstairs hot tub, and its about 80 degrees all the time---the place I'm working on this contract is about 68 degrees. I suffered so much that I ended up taking my micro-furnace in and plugging it in beside my desk!!! The driving hasn't been too bad, but the weather guys are forecasting 10" to 12" of wet snow over the next 24 hours, beginning about midnight tonight. If I get up tomorrow morning and it looks like Siberia outside, I'm going to stay home and figure out some hotrod related things. I like the money, but playing Sargeant Preston of the Yukon just to get to work is not in the plan.----

Sounds like it's skis and snowshoe time.

Originally Posted by DennyW

Yeah, get out the sled dogs, and snow shades.....

At least you won't need a coat, yours looks plenty warm enough.

Alot of people do not enjoy driving in bad weather ,I actually enjoy it for some reason ,especially the snow.................I guess thats one of the reasons they say ,that boy just aint right....
I would make sure you had a little survival kit ,..blanket ,flairs,emergency communications etc.....I have been marooned from weather on the side of t he road in the midwest before ,just could not drive in the deep snow any further and it was the middle of the night in no where land.............lucky a old friend of mine harped and harped about a back pack roadside survival kit and how he always had one in all the cars and trucks he has owned...never know when it will come in handy he said.
I was amazed at the amount of stuff he was able to condense into a small back pack ,..extra shoes/socks/some twine ,small hand tools {other than a normal tool kit} matches/lighter /flashlight etc...lip balm.......knife .....

No substitute for workin in the comfort of your own home though,but it mat get you back there in one piece to enjoy it!!!!

You crazy Canucks have all the fun!

Hey Brian glad its you and not me, today that is. Living in what is suppoedly
the warmest place in Canada, it seems to get worse every year, and the
wife is constantly on me about my gripping about the weather.Shes from your neck of the woods, so i guess this is heavon for her, But it is feb 1st. and
its countdown to spring. we will be polishing the buggys up soon.

Well, boys and girls. ---I think this may be a case of "be carefull what you wish for". This afternoon, about 3:00, the owner of this fledgling mining machine company proceeded (for the third time this week) to instruct me on the correct way to dimension shop drawings. I listened patiently, then proceeded to explain to him that I was dimensioning shop drawings while he was still shitting yellow, that I had worked in shops where fractional dimensions were used, in shops where decimal dimensions were used, in shops where everything was layed out by hand by a "layout man", in shops where all holes were put in on a mill or boring table, in shops where all work was done in metric, in shops where all work was done in British Imperial, 33 years on a drafting board, 2 years using Autocad, and 7 years using Solidworks 3D software and no one has ever taken issue with my dimensioning practices before!!! ----I will be starting a new contract WORKING FROM MY HOME OFFICE on Monday.

Guess you told him!!!

Oh heck, you'll enjoy working from home more anyway.