ok, we've cleared the patio (good gravy we have a lot of stuff - planters and plants and tiles and sea shells and sculpture and windchimes and bird feeders and garden tools and and and and ( Read more... )

we're battening down the hatches here, trying to be quick because wow the winds have really picked up and the coastal areas are getting storm surge floods ( Read more... )

We're closing down for the storm this afternoon; the campus will be closed tomorrow. Folks are currently evacuating, but we probably won't. We have a very secure little house without many windows. I don't think I've ever actually evacuated for a storm in my life, but it's really a decision folks have to make for themselves ( Read more... )

University is closed for the day, it's raining, expecting floods, and our power may still go out.
But the storm landed elsewhere, and is weakening even as it brings the rain.
Hopefully the flooding won't be too terrible.

The university is letting us all out early to get ready for Edouard, which is estimated to hit hurricane strength shortly before hitting the coast near Galveston tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

Everybody in my office is so nice - they remember that I'm supposed to be starting my apartment hunting now that I'm back from England and ask me how it's going ( Read more... )

I'm ready to go get cold.
It's the First Day of Christmas!
There is no partridge anywhere in the vicinity, though. Probably a good thing. The cat would love it.

My mother regularly wakes me up on the weekends by shrieking.  I have 3.7 seconds of absolute panic and then I realize, "Oh, it's the baseball/football/soccer/fill-in-sport-here game."

Apparently, watching TV with Mom and me is very difficult.  We've been watching Tin Man on Sci-Fi for past two nights, and making snarky comments.  Mom and I ( Read more... )

Humor from John Scalzi this morning:

A Real Conversation, Slightly Fictionalized for Dramatic Purposes:Friend: So, I’m here in San Diego, and everything is on fire. All of California is on fire. Fire reigns here.

Me: That’s very nice, but I think your fascination with this fire thing has blinded you to the actual big news story of the weekend.

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