My adventure in a blizzard

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   I get up at 6, head out and shovel what I could, the stairs, sidewalk
and driveway before heading to work. I'll dispense with the needless
commentary, and list the interesting points of the drive:

1. Missed the turn that I usually take to get onto the highway and had to find a strange route around to get back.
2. Did anywhere between 10 and 20mph on the first leg of the highway drive
3.
I get about a mile from the I-90 toll booth and realize I forgot my
wallet. It was necessary too, since there was no gas in the car.
4. I need to find a way back to Schenectady that I've never taken before....in the blizzard.
5. The route I find brings me to a traffic circle which flings me back
 the direction I need to go.
6. .....except I missed the ramp back to the highway
7. So I turn around in a motel parking lot and head back
8. ....And miss the ramp again. 
9. I have to go all the way BACK to the traffic circle and go all the way around it, which I do....sideways.
10.
I get back to the ramp to 890 (the highway between home and I-90) and see a Time Warner Cable van decide not to
stop at a stop sign. I went past him so close all that I could do was
close my eyes and wait for the jarring 'thud' as he hit my rear quarter panel. He missed me, but the pucker factor was rather high at that point.
11.
I come to an intersection where i need to make a left turn, and the flippin light cycles through TWICE before I get the go ahead arrow.
12. Get home, get my wallet, and start all over again...
13. All is well until I start the last leg of freeway driving....then, the road vanishes. Completely. Not
 only that, but traffic also vanishes. I'm the only car on a ghost road doing 29 miles an hour. 
14.
I begin to fishtail on the highway as I start down the long hill that
leads me to where I need to go Thankfully, by that time the weather had broken
enough that I wasn't too worried. Got it straightened out and got to
work with no other real problems. 

Drive home: Uneventful for
the most part, until I get about a mile from my exit and I
have a tractor trailer pass me ON THE SHOULDER as I'm doing about 40.
What freaked me out was that I saw him behind me, then he swings to the
right, I thought he was going off the road....Nope, around me. On the
shoulder. 

Not a good morning to be driving, but it was sort of necessary. 