Chris

There's this hurricane coming in, but I am not worried, for three primary reasons:

1) It's mostly hitting the mid-Atlantic area, or the DelMarVa area, as I've seen it called. NY is a bit north of that. Here's a map, showing that Pennsylvania is pretty much boned.

2) We-all live in an area that's not even in a designated evacuation zone. We're inland, and we're close to a medical facility, which means electricity is unlikely to stay down for long, if it goes at all. It's all cool hereabouts.

3) I finally live with folk who take my penchant for emergency planning seriously. Like making water jars and everything, which is a great use for that otherwise useless half-a-cabinet space next to the stove. There are three kinds of kits specced out and everything! Glorious. At last, someone who recognises the sheer usefulness and anxiety relief that is emergency planning. (I'd actually gotten out of the habit, which is embarrassing in that "now I want to get better" sort of way.)

The office is closed tomorrow, but our department is still expected to work, because we are all of course equipped to work from home. Not sarcasm at all; one doesn't go far if one is not a goddamn nerd on at least some level. I emailed my boss to say I'd be working from home, here's my status, and so forth.

Living where there's weather is certainly exciting. In Portland, alls we had to worry about was occasional snow and the chances of a nearby volcano waking up. (Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, and Mount Adams.)

Today's weather, in order:

* rain
* heavy rain
* ice-rain
* rain
* sun
* SUN
* clouds
* rain
* heavy rain
* ice-rain
* hail
* uhhh, hail
* rain
* cloudy
* snow

I think it's shifting back to rain sun clouds again.

o_O

And my evening went well.  I wound some yarn and watched WKRP and The Addams Family.

Some of the merino stuff is a little stiff, which I think means I need to rinse it again.  Eh, no worries.  I'll rinse it out after my shower tomorrow morning, maybe.

I also am dealing with a money thing I should've dealt with ages ago.  And soon, I'll get to deal with another money thing.  Leaving entirely aside medical bills, which I need to call the clinic and ask if I can make payments.  Well, it's not a worthwhile day until I've been sick to my stomach, I suppose.

I pulled out my coffee maker, and will be taking it and a bunch of yogurts to work with me tomorrow.  Frankly, the coffeemaker at work sucks like sucking things suck, which makes it hard for me to want to make coffee instead of buy it.  I like mine.  It's a little bit busted - the coffeepot lid doesn't flip right, and the coffee... holder... dealiebopper doesn't swing out well, one of the pegs is gone - but I adore it, and plan to use it.  If I can ward off my coworker, maybe I could set the timer or something, so I come in to coffee.  Alas, it is not a future-future coffeepot, which means Mondays == no timering, but eh!  I like this plan.

(Or I could bribe him with coffee...  He's the early guy, so he's in before me.  Hm.  "If I fill the coffee thing, will you turn it on, and we split it?"  *taps teeth thoughtfully*)

In conclusion, I liked my vacation because, among other things, I could spend at least a day or two with my constant self-improvement process disabled.  It is tiring to constantly be evaluating every situation for how I could improve and who I should be and things.  It was really pleasant, to just be myself and all myself for a few days.

Coda: could it ever not be cold, please?

* I make dinner, it's Shake'n'Bake chicken and corn.  Josh makes dinner, and it's veggies and crock-potted rice, chicken marinated in something nice, and oven-baked cheese bread.  So Iiiii think he should be the cooking one.  I'll be the washing-up one.  I'm not not joking.

* That involved a brief nattering about who does the washing up.  I think it's "Whoever partook of the food but didn't cook it does the washing up", and he concurs.  I brought it up because he'd done the cooking and the washing up, because his kitchen is small and he knows where everything is and I felt very in the way and aie.  He was fine, this was no big deal, but next time I go over, I'll do some dishes or something.  (Not a declaration from him, rather a want-to from me.)

* I have this sudden weird urge to join a gym.  ...well, no.  It's not weird, I've wanted to lift weights for ages.  And the only "sudden" part relates to gosh it smells nice outside, I think I would like to partake in happy physical activities.

I also have an urge to knit moar.

* Gosh it smells nice outside.  Gimme another week or two like this, and I'll be back to wanting to burn everything I own and move to the woods again.

* I just got Benny And Joon.  I've never seen it, so, here I go.

I remember why I don't like winter.

I sometimes associate feeling [emotionally] $foo with feeling [physically] $bar.  Sometimes when I feel $bar, that triggers feelings of $foo.  One example is when I am wicked scattered, I get the shakes.

Cold makes me shiver.

So I get wicked scattered.

*annoyed*

Today is all about staying in and hiding from the burning daystar, as today's high is 102°F.  Although I still need to go to the store.  :/

Monday's forecast?  High of 72°F with some showers.  Love you too, Oregon.

I decided to cook myself some turkey sausage and have some wine while watching first season M*A*S*H.  I was going to make stirfry, but it turns out to be a righteous bitch to cut uncooked sausage.  Unless I'm missing something.  *shrugs*

I love the heat.  And I love the coolness of the evening after.

It was sleeting a bit today!  And then it was sunny!  Currently, there are big fluffy clouds and the sky is less pancake-grey scary.

Yesterday, I saw a whole rainbow.  It was a bit hard to follow at the top, but I followed.

I adore the sky.

There's a thunderstorm afoot!