It was in the high 70’s today in Northern Virginia…March 13. Give me a break. If these temperatures continue into the summer we are in for a scorcher. I for one am not looking forward to it. I just got home at 2230 and it is 80 in my apartment. I have only had the heat on for two days out of the whole winter. I should have my AC on!
Speaking of getting home from work…. It was another day at the mercy of the customer who is heedless of the support staff’s personal obligations and lifestyle. Accordingly, my day went from a predictable 8 hours to 11.5. I just love leaving the office at 2130 w/o having had dinner or a significant break all day. I guess that is the price I pay for having a job in a society where the top 1% beats the rest of us into the ground and tells us we should be happy.
To cap it off, we fight hideous traffic in our commute. If you try to work a bit of flex time, you have to fight the highway construction in the area. Flex time in this area means leaving for work no earlier than 0900 and going home before 2230 or after 1930. But no matter how many lanes the state adds to the highway, there is always some bottleneck that makes all the expansion basically worthless.
To make things even worse, most of the highway work around here is for new toll roads along side the normal byways. As such, the 1% can pay their way away from the madding crowd and theoretically avoid the traffic jams. Meanwhile Juan, the landscape engineer and his household maintenance technician wife. Juanita, along with the rest of us can fight the traffic jams.
Well, it is after 2300 and time for me to finish my after work beer and get some dinner! Midnight snacks were never this good!