So we're home, for now, gotta watch Ike and see what happens.

We will be evacuating tomorrow. We're going to leave early and hope to beat some of the traffic. Folk back in Texas we might call, others feel free to call in the afternoon. I will try and post soon after we arrive in TX, assuming we have internet where we are.

Gustav, I hate thee so.

All the models are sending it right here, and I in my newbishness don't know how soon we can evacuate. I know I can evacuate, as I'm not essential personnel, but it makes me nervous no knowing when.

I've got some pictures up on deviant art of my new kitten, and Emma,
here: http://vicskywalker.deviantart.com/gallery/#_browse/scraps

So Laura had been saying since before she came down here that when she moved out of her parent's place. So now that she's here she wanted to go a head and get one. Her and Kat were looking online for people giving away small kittens. We found someone today, went out to get them. They're six weeks old, and when we got there Kat picked out an orange ( Read more... )

So, I think I'm going to be working my normal hours again. Finally. Now I can actually sleep, Kat will actually sleep, and things will be better, because things have kinda sucked around here with everybody's schedules being messed up.

I think I'm done with the command center crap, when this oil spill happens. Not only do I not get to do clean up related stuff, but now I'm on night watches, I don't get to see Emma for days at a time, and it just sucks, I'm not even doing anything useful, I'm babysitting phones all night long that barely ring.

There was an oil spill here in New Orleans on Wednesday morning at 2am. A tank barge was run over by a tanker ship, splitting the barge in half, and dumping 10,000 barrels of #6 oil, which is a heavy industrial fuel that is so thick it has to be heated up before it can be used as fuel. The clean up is on going, and will take an unknown amount of ( Read more... )

Kat and I had to go out to a meeting thing today, and Mom is here to watch Emma. When we get back Mom, Emma, and the dog are outside the dog is loose and mom is carrying Emma, and she's got this big pink mark on her forehead ( Read more... )

So, the other day at work, we were going out to do an inspection, and one of the guys jokes 'hey lets call the guys and tell them we got a flat.' So, they call, tell the guy in charge of keeping up the cars, 'hey we got a flat, and there's no spare in here.' They keep him going for a few minutes, and he's getting directions to come pick us up, and ( Read more... )