meh!

Almost a week ago we had 60º weather. Last night we got SNOW.

When I got up this morning there was a good foot of snow in the driveway.

So I bundled up and headed out, not looking forward to having to spend a good 3+ hours shoveling.

But just as I had started the creepy guy across the street came out of his garage with his snowblower and did his then came over to help me with mine. I have now solved the mystery of who did my driveway the other week. When he was done, all I had to do was the walkway up to the front step, directly around the car and the sidewalk.

So while I'm damp and tired, it's not as bad as it certainly could have been.

But now I can get out of the driveway so that we can go celebrate Boogiemas when she wants to.

Note from a very frustrated secretary

Ok, I'm an Admin. Nitpick.

Backstory: My boss has known for over a month that he needed to go to Saudi Arabia this coming week for a meeting.

I've known for 3 weeks that he was going (though not when) because I had to arrange for his travel visa.

Last week I asked him when his meeting was and he said "March 12th is my meeting. I suppose we should start getting the flight together". No kidding! Dude - International flights to middle east needing connecting flights. Yeah... let me have lead time to work on this.

He tells me dates to book flights. I get flight options. Present them. He tells me to book. I book. Then a day later after booking he says "Oh, we've added a side trip from Riyadh to Jeddah. I need you to look into adding a round trip flight on X day".

I inform him that this will require then changing his flights home. But he says look into the side trip.

I do.

Then he decides since he's in the area, he wants to go do a pilgrimage. This will really throw off the return home. But I start looking into it.

THEN while he's there, maybe he will just take the weekend and run to Pakistan to visit family.

Somehow I pulled it all out of my backside (though he does have to make one ticket change once he gets to Saudi as it was past the deadline for over phone/online changes).

He was supposed to fly to JFK today at 5:05pm. Well, at 9:45pm I get a call from him. HE's still at the Buffalo airport. He did get his international flight changed but needs to get to JFK and Jetblue was sold out. Could I go on line and see if I could find any other flights for him. (I would have just started hitting all the ticket counters there at the airport if I had been in his shoes but what do I know). No dice.

Could I call the car rentals to find out if there is something available for him to rent to get to NYC. (Again, I would have walked to the counters myself rather than call and disturb my secretary on a saturday but that's me).

I find one, I reserve it in his name and call him back and say "Walk down to Hertz. It will cost you X. but you can pick it up now, and return it to JFK when you get in".

Maybe I'm too independent. Maybe I tend to tackle a problem like being stuck at an airport in "OK, what are my options that I can handle myself" attitude. NOt to mention the whole I like to have everything planned, booked and confirmed weeks if not months in advance if I can help it. But still...

Really man, you are at the bloody airport where you could look someone in the face to achieve something where I had to make 15 phone calls.

I just need to say now... please Powers that Be, let the man get to Riyadh for his meeting without any other issues. I'd love if you could ensure the rest of his travels run smoothly and without incident so I don't have to drag myself out of a nice warm bed, where i was snuggling my puppy and reading a book to try to make phone calls again. Thank you

EDIT After all that, he managed to get himself on a flight on standby. *sigh*