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When I went to work this morning, it was very rainy and wet. It was so wet outside that my shoes got drenched and my socks were soaking up water. After a very uncomfortable walk to work, I changed my socks and settled in for a rainy work day. I had a morning meeting and then the weather changed.

The three images you see above were taken less than an hour apart from the first image to the last. Lots of people bailed from work around lunch time, afraid that the roads would be a nightmare come evening. My manager gave the engineers the ok to leave early. I stayed until 2pm and to be honest, my commute wasn’t that bad.

It’s supposed to snow again on Thursday.

It’s supposed to snow in the greater Vancouver area on Tuesday but it probably won’t stick around to make it a white Christmas. Rain later in the week will most likely wash it away before Monday. I’m ok with that.

So far this year, the snow hasn’t come down like it did last year when record snow falls blanketed the city. I think this time last year we would have already had two major snowfalls and I had taken a few snow days from work. It’s a different story this time around.

This is the last week of work for the year and I’m looking forward to spending a whole week off. Some of my co-workers are probably going to take off before the end of the week but I’m going to try to finish this year strong. I’ve got some important work to be done and I can’t really coast into the new year.

Star Wars spoilers are now in the wild on social media. A few people I know have already seen the movie. If you care about such things, it’s time to avoid social media for a few days until you can get yourself into a movie theatre.

Good luck everyone!

It probably was the salmon that I made for dinner last night but I wound up having a really terrible night of sleep. I barely got any rest and was out of it for most of the day.

I’m exhausted now and I think I’m gonna crawl into bed. Have a good day.

It’s going to be tough staying off social media starting on Thursday night but I risk seeing spoilers for the new Star Wars movie if I don’t. A friend told me to especially stay off YouTube since a lot of YouTube comments spoiled the last movie.

I checked the theatre downstairs on their web site and tickets for shows this weekend and next weekend are almost sold out for nearly every show. Christmas is still almost two weeks away but you’d be hard pressed to find a decent seat for the 6:30pm for Christmas Eve. Some mid-week showings are still looking good with decent seat availability. This might be my chance to see it. I’ll have to play it by ear.

For the last two years I’ve avoided any mention, story, detail, even single words that might have anything to do with the latest Star Wars movie. I just don’t want to encounter any spoilers and when I do actually see the movie for the first time, I want it to be most the fresh experience. I don’t want to know what is going to happen before I see or hear it.

The task was easy early on as the last crappy movie from JJ Abrams faded from people’s memory. It became more difficult though as the new movie started production and the hype started. It got exponentially more difficult once the trailers started showing up. I’ve avoiding them all so far but I ran into a bit of a problem on Sunday night. I was watching the latest Thor movie when the last Star Wars trailer played. I could do nothing but look down at my popcorn and tried to not to listen to anything. I was somewhat successful as I didn’t see any of the images and spaced out enough to not know who was talking most of the time.

The most dangerous time now approaches however. The movie comes out this Friday. There are already people on this planet who have seen it through advance screenings. With social media being ubiquitous these days, the risk of the story being spoiled is great. I feel like on Friday and until I see the movie, it’s best that I avoid all social media and as much as the Internet as I can.

May the Force be with me.

I went to a work related holiday party last Thursday. It was exactly one year to the day from the last party. This party was just for my team and another team, since we’re both in the same business unit. It was at a bar downtown. There were lots of raffle prizes, cheese, and at least for me, enough drink tickets that I didn’t have to pay for my alcohol.

A few people probably drank a little too much but that’s ok since it seemed like everyone made it to work the next day (even if they didn’t feel all that great). Someone who I won’t name took a taxi home, felt hungry, opened a package of baby carrots and a tub of ranch dip, then decided it was a good idea to bring all of that to their bed. As soon as they laid down they feel asleep and this person woke up to ranch dip everywhere, on their sheets, blanket, clothes, face, and beard. Gross.

I didn’t even have all that much to drink but I did feel quite tired the next day. I got to work about an hour later than usual. All in all, I had a good time and didn’t embarrass myself.

For the last while I’ve been playing a game of solitaire on my phone or tablet before going to sleep. Google suggested this after I got my new phone. The Google app had a few suggestions for wasting time or fun things to do and solitaire was one of them. You can play it on your browser, phone or tablet, right on the Google site. Try it out yourself!

It’s funny since some of these films are classics.