Weblog is up and walking

January 27th, 2004 admin Posted in Events |

Finally got this feature going. Keep checking this space to see what I am upto. This weekend extended into Monday and Tuesday because of the snow/ice/sleet storm. After the December 02 storm last winter, this is the first time IBM was shutdown during working days. The adventure for this storm was in the form of a stupid attempt to keep an appointment with the car mechanic. For all I knew the place was closed due to the rapidly freezing snow on the road. I went out, saw about 5 accidents, changed my mind and tried to get back home. I did get back home and parked the car on the road in front of my house. I wanted to avoid parking on the driveway which has a 20 - 25 degree slope. I walked into the kitchen and was fixing myself lunch when I chanced to be looking out of the kitchen window. I saw my car moving. I did not believe it, but there it was again…it was moving back and was curving up towards my opposite neighbor’s house. I picked up the keys, leaped into my sandals and darted across the snowed out lawn, opened the door of the moving car, jumped in and hit the brakes, a few feet before the rear of the car would have hit the neighbor’s post box. Unable to get the car to move up the incline, I reversed it and parked it on a different road that was much flatter. I have been checking on it every few hours since then. The car is still there … unmoved and untowed.