OMG, everyone, Hurricane Irene is going to destroy us all! Panic eleventyone!!!1!1 ( Read more... )

We had an incredible storm last night. I'm talking massive thunderclaps, fork lightning, torrential rain, the works. And it lasted for hours ( Read more... )

Ugh, it's a grey, horribly muggy day and I dragged myself into work despite a bad headache just so that I could have air-conditioning. I suspect that the headache (which started on Wednesday, double ugh) is due to the barometer and unfortunately last night's massive thunderstorm seems to have made things worse rather than better ( Read more... )

I thought long and hard and got my Yuletide sign-up today while I waited for some files to copy over to my shiny new toy. Yay ( Read more... )

After all the reports, forecasts and huge amounts of preperation, Hurricane Bill turned out to be, er, not nearly as bad as everyone thought it would be. Ah, well ( Read more... )

So, hello there Hurricane Bill. You're going to be fun, I can tell ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a gorgeous, beautiful day. It was warm and sunny, everything was melting and it felt like spring was on its way. My snow banks by the drive were almost gone by evening! The entire neighbourhood suddenly revealed its (rather brown) grassy lawns and there were people out everywhere enjoying the day ( Read more... )

I've been reading the commentary on yesterday's announcement that a third of people still think the woman is to blame for her rape if she dresses or behaves in certain ways. I couldn't comment yesterday because I was too angry, but everyone seems to have expressed what I want to say pretty well. The victim is never to blame and it's this kind of ( Read more... )