Several years ago on a similar dreary winter day I sat in the same waiting room as now while my wife's car was being serviced. I was employed by another company, and I spent the several hours working remotely on a machine in Hursley, UK making significant progress porting our Apache-based web server to Solaris 10 x64. The work wasn't technically interesting (mostly identifying and fixing a bunch of rarely touched build scripts), but I was very happy that we were adding support for the platform I used for much of my Apache work.