January weather and whatnot

Really not too much going on here for the last couple of weeks.

Since my last post, there's been another layoff announced in the business area. This one is especially fiendish. Think Catbert the Evil HR Director. It was announced that a layoff was coming and that it would be February 15 before people would be told they would be let go. Those being laid off will be kept on long enough to train their Israeli and Indian replacements. I've been told that I'm not affected. I guess that means I'm good for a week or two more anyway.

Also did another exciting trip to Dallas. Well, not exciting. And possibly will be back for a third trip next week.

On the weather front (pun intended)... we're used to winter being pretty variable down here on the third coast. But this week has been ridiculous. I take the dogs out for a 30-minute walk every morning that I'm here. We hit the road about 7am give or take a bit. Temperatures this week have flip-flopped between t-shirt weather and winter coat weather. Tuesday morning was about 70, Wednesday was below 40, Thursday was 70, and today it was mid-30s. For the cold weather mornings (below 40) we actually had to buy the coats for the dogs. Got them both "home coats" from HoundTogs.

Yesterday I found out that Tucker is afraid of thunder. There was a little front that blew through about mid-morning. He got agitated at the first tiny rumblings of thunder, then when it rumbled through got very whiny and darted all over the house. He stayed agitated, pacing and whining for a good half hour after the noise was totally over. Gert just looks at him like he's an idiot when he's doing this. I swear that if dogs rolled their eyes, she'd be doing that.