• West Seattle Blog has the latest on garbage pick-up, or lack thereof--a topic that, after two weeks with no garbage man, is near and dear to our hearts. City utilities say they hope to be caught up with pick-ups by this coming Saturday.
• Central District News, despite living "two level blocks from the post office," still hasn't had mail delivered since the first snow fall. Hopefully today the mail comes for everyone, CDN especially.
• Capitol Hill Seattle grades Cap Hill bus service during Snowmageddon 2008. We gotta agree with CHS that it was an epic fail.

Every time we've looked out the window today, our garbage and recycling containers have lost more and more definition, gradually becoming absorbed into the gently sculpted snowscape that surrounds us. And we were wondering: Is the city really going to try to collect this garbage today? Turns out no: "Single-family residential garbage, yard waste, and recycling collection has been delayed in Seattle for today, Thursday, December 18, due to dangerous road conditions. Most business and apartment services will be collected on schedule." We can leave our containers at the curb one more day, but if tomorrow's a no-go, we have to save them for next week. (Though we can leave out twice as much garbage.) With even the garbage collectors having a snow day, our last vestiges of guilt about working at home have melted away. more ›