We got a bit more than 2-3"! I slept until 9:00, and when I went outside I'd wager it was at 4" already and only just stopped snowing. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to get to work tomorrow even if it doesn't start again; it's supposed to get down to 10F tonight. All that snow is just going to stick and freeze, and that will be even more dangerous ( Read more... )

It's supposed to get down to 17° tonight and we may wake up to 2-3" of snow. Which I know sounds like nothing to over half the country, but I remind you I live on the Gulf coast. Snow is extremely rare here, we don't have the infrastructure to deal with it, and people have no experience driving in it. I mean, Cajuns start whining about how much ( Read more... )

Things I have learned on RedNote ( Read more... )

48 hours on RedNote and you're already starting to see posts by Americans that are like GUYS I THINK WE MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE A FIRST WORLD COUNTRY. LOL there's that "Chinese soft power", but also... we are sort of the absolute very worst first world country there is, and I don't think it's bad if more Americans realize that ( Read more... )

I was never a huge Neil Gaiman fan. I liked American Gods; I read Anansi Boys but honestly I hardly remember it. I loved Good Omens, but a lot of that was Terry Pratchett. I never read Sandman because it just seemed like too much to get into. (Also I have repeatedly tried to get into graphic novels, but it just ain't my thing.)

So yesterday's ( Read more... )

Saturday I made eggs and toast, and in between eating and showering I was determined to finish The Armor of Light, I was at 96%. One of the things I really liked about this entry into the Kingsbridge series was how Follett portrayed the Napoleonic Wars as this ever-expanding vortex that just kept sucking in more and more people and resources, until ( Read more... )

Or, history doesn't repeat but it rhymes: Comet Ping Pong Gunman Shot Dead by Police in North CarolinaAlso, Anita Bryant died. I hope her version of hell is getting a pie in the face from gay rights activists every minute for eternity. (This is just me being salty, I don't believe in hell.) Whenever I find myself wondering why the absolute worst ( Read more... )

Highs in the 40s, that's actually pretty cold for here. Of course the natives are acting like we suddenly got transported to Detroit or something. The 'rents actually turned the heater on downstairs, which we rarely have to do (David and I use it upstairs a bit more often) because a lot of the interior walls are brick. It gave off that horrible ( Read more... )

Next Saturday is the first Silent Book Club meeting of the year, I'm planning on going. I've missed the last few months because one was canceled--the organizer's mother died, I believe, so I'm not mad about that--then they moved the location or moved the time or something. Anyway I just kept forgetting and missing it or not being able to find out ( Read more... )

My LJ pro package expired, and while I'm sure a few months from now there won't be any American sanctions left on Russian companies (for obvious reasons), for now I still can't use a debit card issued by an American bank to pay LJ. I sent them an email, let's see if I can wheedle another extension out of them ( Read more... )