When the Snowing Gets Tough, The Tough Use Tupperware

 This is how the South reacts to snow - wait til spring.

As I said before, I clear snow immediately to let solar power take over. The morning sun was melting the snow and ice when I came upon the mother of Alaska and Atlas scraping her ice-bound car with a Tupperware container. I used my gloved hands to help but promised a better tool a few houses away.

I kept Sassy indoors after I got inside and searched for my all-purpose snow implement - long, scraper included, plus a brush on the opposite end. I went back.

The black car was not yielding to the snow that partially melted and then froze overnight. The entire car was covered with ice on the metal/windows and ice on top the snow. The remainder began to melt in the sun as the ice flew off.

We finished fast and off she went, with wipers loosened from their icy grip. She told me about how deep the snow fall is in Sioux Falls, where they used to live. "Sioux Falls used to be a nice place." I laughed and said, "I will tell our friends there."

NW Arkansas hopes the sun will melt away every millimeter of ice and snow. My sidewalk was the only one shoveled yesterday and today on my side of the street! "Where are the kids?" I have asked many times. We used to shovel as kids back in Moline, our walks for free and the neighbors for extra change. Here I used to have elderly neighbors on each side, so our helper and I cleared the sidewalk and cars. We salted early and let the sun do a lot of the work. Our Laotian family taught me - "Shovel and salt early. Let the sun do most of the work."

All cats are a gift from Heaven. Just ask the owners!

DEI or DIE ! Numbers Slashed as Tech Firms Wake to Woke

 

Twins are divided. One wanted an easy job that required no brain-power. The other discovered that a sense of humor was still valuable albeit rare.

Tech Firms Slash Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Dept’s To The Bones, Surprising No One

"Big Tech layoffs are hitting the short-lived, so-called “diversity, equity, and inclusion” industry hard in 2023, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Twitter’s DEI team is down from 30 to just two people, one former employee told Bloomberg. Another DEI employee at a rideshare company was let go and has been unable to find new employment, claiming the industry is stalled as technology companies deal with ongoing financial issues and giant cuts to their workforces.

Listings for DEI jobs dropped some 19% in 2022, a larger hit than than (sic) other legal and human resource jobs, Bloomberg noted. While other jobs in Big Tech firms, like software engineering and data science, saw larger declines, DEI is a close third."

"Memories are made of this - sweet sweet."

Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella

 

Avelin's smile.