The halls are empty

I probably brought this onto myself by taking all my vacation time in November to go back home for a month long visit.

Now that its December , almost 80% of the team is on vacation and I am in office. Its not just my team , most of my floor
in building 35 is on vacation. I hardly see anyone in the hallways nowadays , the silence feels unusual.
Most of the people with whom I used to discuss any new ideas are on vacation , and not having anyone around
to bounce my ideas off of feels weird . Although , the silence lets me get a lot done though , no distractions.

Thanks to the unusual ( in Redmond terms) snow, the campus shuttles are shut down for these snowed-in days .
That means my walk to work for  a distance of mere 3 mile feels like 10 miles as I have to walk real slow
to prevent slipping on the ice and falling . And not to mention that it gets dark by 4 PM in the evening .

So I go to work in the dark and go home in the dark, but only have an eight hour day.
Guess I can check off one of the items in the list of You Might be from the Pacific Northwest if You….

This is how evenings look when I step out in the evenings to go home .

Pretty awesome , isn’t it !

Oh and before I forget , Happy Holidays Readers !!