Hasbro's "My First Hurricane" kit
This is Austin, Texas...about 300 miles from where "Emily" came ashore this morning.
It's been cloudy all day, and we had one good downpour about 9am, but that was the sum and whole of the hurricane's impact on our little slice of Tejas. I'm anchoring in morning drive this week, so today was pretty busy. I spoke with two people caught in the storm, one on South Padre Island and the other in Harlingen (up the Rio Grande Valley a smidge from S. Padre). These hurricane thingies sound like a good thing to miss, although they generate plenty of tape to use on the air!
Sarah and I officially quit smoking in the wee small hours of Sunday morning. We're in our fourth day on the patch, and despite cravings and old triggers we're doing all right so far. Sarah went back to work today, three weeks early and about a month before the kids arrive. She's doing some IT work and getting slightly more money so, "Hooray!"
Wedding planning continues...should have the venue nailed down next week. If you regularly watch this space, we'll need an address where you'll be on 1st October for the whole "invitation" thing.
Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: We got a chance to meet Alton Brown of "Good Eats" on ye olde Foode Networke. (Yeah, "Mr. Wizard" meets "The Galloping Gourmet." That's the guy.) He was doing demos and book signing at one of the local malls. He's a genuinely nice fellow, very patiently signing books. Got a pic of him and Sarah that we still need to pry out of the digital camera. Watch for a posting, soon...
Congratulations to Brandi (bound for the great unknown in the Peace Corps) and Andrea (bound for the National Capital Region and American University)! More Oregonians abroad can mean only one thing: more people staying up till all hours trying to get Oregon football this fall!
It's been cloudy all day, and we had one good downpour about 9am, but that was the sum and whole of the hurricane's impact on our little slice of Tejas. I'm anchoring in morning drive this week, so today was pretty busy. I spoke with two people caught in the storm, one on South Padre Island and the other in Harlingen (up the Rio Grande Valley a smidge from S. Padre). These hurricane thingies sound like a good thing to miss, although they generate plenty of tape to use on the air!
Sarah and I officially quit smoking in the wee small hours of Sunday morning. We're in our fourth day on the patch, and despite cravings and old triggers we're doing all right so far. Sarah went back to work today, three weeks early and about a month before the kids arrive. She's doing some IT work and getting slightly more money so, "Hooray!"
Wedding planning continues...should have the venue nailed down next week. If you regularly watch this space, we'll need an address where you'll be on 1st October for the whole "invitation" thing.
Oh, forgot to mention in the last post: We got a chance to meet Alton Brown of "Good Eats" on ye olde Foode Networke. (Yeah, "Mr. Wizard" meets "The Galloping Gourmet." That's the guy.) He was doing demos and book signing at one of the local malls. He's a genuinely nice fellow, very patiently signing books. Got a pic of him and Sarah that we still need to pry out of the digital camera. Watch for a posting, soon...
Congratulations to Brandi (bound for the great unknown in the Peace Corps) and Andrea (bound for the National Capital Region and American University)! More Oregonians abroad can mean only one thing: more people staying up till all hours trying to get Oregon football this fall!