898-6958 (MELT) Time = -5,460

Another Snow Day happened on 1/5/2018.  Unlike yesterday, on the 5th day of 2018, Penn was closed.  And so, once again, I stayed home and did not have to go to work (I did actually work from home, of course, but, again, in comfy clothes).  We got notified by email, text, tweet, and website postings about the closures at Penn (and Temple for Sarah, the girls went to school, 90 minute delay).  It's not as it was back in "the day" when we had to call 898-MELT to find out our fate.  I immediately thought that 898-6358 (MELT) would be a good way to calculate the number of the day!  My daughters tell me this is letting my geek out, but that made me laugh, not upset.  Like my geek was ever "in" to be let out.  So we have our first negative number of the day, -5,460!  And, to honor today, since I do not have a link to "It's 898-MELT time," one of the classic songs of yore, we will honor what I was supposed to be doing tonight, before the game was moved (banging on the bass drum with the Penn Band, I will get to do it tomorrow in a double-header!) and the fact that I was not at work for two days with this Todd Rundgren classic.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO17hN-YvBc

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