Instead of improving, I've gotten worse. Another migraine has struck me down and has made me throw up twice in the past half-hour.
This is gonna be a long night....
It's been 3 days now, how are you doing? Any better?
So over this winter weather. When I'm outside walking from Point A to Point B, my toes become almost painfully cold, because snow and small chunks and fragments of cobblestone ice keep getting into my shoes. They keep getting into my shoes because the shoes are so ratty, that the soles are literally detaching from the bottom of the shoes, especially on the right one, to where they're almost about to fall completely off. The reason why they're so ratty is because all of the walking through freezing rain and ice puddles, all the snow, all the trying not to slide on the ice.
I thought about taking the DART public bus the mile to my apartments when I got off of work this morning, so I wouldn't have to walk home in the subfreezing cold. But during the 7am hour, a Dallas Fire Rescue fire engine literally spun out of control in the intersection right in front of my store. I heard the sirens, and saw glints of red flashes from outside. I go to the front doors to look - it's a DFR fire truck that's trying to regain control in the middle of the intersection. It does, after a few minutes, and proceeds carefully down the street. After I saw that, I was like, nope, I'm good. Just no. If a large, multi-ton vehicle like a fire truck can lose control on an icy street with all the payload it has, then so can a public bus.
So basically, the safest method of travel is also the harshest, in weather like this - to just bite the bullet, get out and walk on foot to where you need to go. And if where you need to go is beyond walking distance, well, can it wait until later today or tomorrow, when the weather improves?
On the plus side, I did get to work with one of the dayshift managers, and he's cool as shit. Imagine a 6 foot 2 Tyler Oakley as your boss.
This was the scene last night as I walked to my store.
And here's 2 pics I snapped walking home this morning...
The bottom pic is the main north-south road through my neighborhood. After almost a week straight of this foolishness, I think it's finally gotten through to people that showing your ass on the road could end very badly.
My hats off to anybody else who still had to go into work in all this mess. One of my customers was this young guy who works at a pizza joint. He came in, after just having gotten off. At 530am. He told me his pizzeria was literally FORCED to go 24-hour because of the sheer demand - the called-in delivery orders simply would not stop. All day, all night. They were still getting orders called in when he left. Nobody wants to get out, and apparently, nobody wants to cook, either.
I'll be so glad when this mess finally comes to an end.
