Today: all of the laundry was done. The sky threatened catastrophic rain and then did nothing. I find nothing preferrable over the tornado-spawning bit o' weather we had a couple of days ago. We filmed it. I'm a loser with no way to transfer the magic of movies to my journal, but know this - watching the (newest) huge pit in front of my house fill ( Read more... )

So I don't do very much on the Interweb anymore, like update this thing. I'm okay with that ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in my bathroom right now with the laptop, cause the bathroom is the only spot in the house we get internet. Another thing I've become accustomed to. Also, there's the Love and Terror of Rain. As you may know, it doesn't rain here much anymore. Perhaps last year broke the weather. My roof has been repaired twice, but with little rainfall ( Read more... )

We got electricity on March 21st. I don't know if any of you know this, but electricity kicks ass after almost seven months.

I feel like that jerk friend who never calls. I suppose you guys deserve more than a soundbite. Allow me to elaborate ( Read more... )

Still no electricity.
Learned how to do a lot of construction.
Got a cellphone.

Until my next three month check-in...

We went home this past weekend. I am not going to attempt to describe things; you have to be there. Pictures do it no justice ( Read more... )

I don't know what's more fun -- watching a huge storm chew its way through Texas and come much closer to me, AGAIN, or watching my broke-down city get ten inches of rain. Maybe I won't have to clean my fridge after all.

I'm very tired of this.

An aerial shot of my house shows an utterly trashed back yard. Trees are not just uprooted, but entirely missing. There is a large tree lying in my street ( Read more... )

After three hours of intense scrutiny, I have determined my house is under a permanent cloud on that damned overhead view of the city.

This is us. I've been debating whether or not I would put this up, because we all look so goofy and happy, and it seemed out of theme. Then I decided I didn't care, and that we could look happy, because we're okay ( Read more... )