As of yesterday afternoon, the downtown bridge reopened. I actually made it home in ten minutes ( Read more... )

The sole bridge in my town is closed for at least two weeks as they try to (finally) finish the replacement project. We've all known this was coming, as we've heard the warnings for probably a decade at the very least. The bridge is about a hundred years old. They tried putting a second bridge in town in the '90s or so, but there isn't a good ( Read more... )

As you may be aware, postage increased yesterday. It's now 41¢ to mail a letter. I knew this, being the mailroom monitor at work. Except that I completely forgot that the mail I dutifully stamped on Friday afternoon wouldn't go out until Monday morning, when each letter cost another 2¢. Whoops. Silly me--had I thought about it, I could have ( Read more... )

At around 10 this morning, the tornado sirens went off. This is a normal occurrence, especially on the first Tuesday of the month. I had just gotten out of the shower and was listening to the different, somber chords the sirens made, how they had this sad beauty about them, and perhaps I should be writing them down. Then the EAS system came on ( Read more... )

I couldn't figure out why I was so tired today, why I really had to push myself to do anything, and then I recalled that I hadn't had a day off in over a week. Ah. Yes. That could do it. Combine that with illness/emotions/other stuff, and it's a wonder I even got out of bed this morning. Trust me, I thought about going back in, but I spent ( Read more... )