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grindmonkehMy nonproductive Monday at work has been spent mucking around with Twitter and trying to export the entries into LJ via an IM (GTalk or LJ's). So far I'm too lacking in the brainworks to figure it out. I slept like shit last night. My lunch was inconspicuously still in the refrigerator as I spacebrained out the door and to work and now I'm hungreh.
I'm amazed that this data center didn't take any water, but the south side of town is much lower and seems to have taken the most damage. The bridges and roads of my normal route of commute are either still under water or royally fuct, but we're taking an alternative route that's not much longer.
(My boss and comrade) Bill's daughter and son-in-law have lost their home. They waited 12 hours for a boat to evacuate them...2 hours after the Mayor made a statement on television that everyone was safe and receiving professional attention. Their home is a modular and won't likely ever be 'right' even after insurance fixes it, and in a lot of cases it's not surprising if the owners simply walk away and let the bank take the house back without throwing any money away on it...and fear of these same events reoccurring is a big factor as well. It'ss a big shitshake for a person's credit, but some consider writing it off entirely to be the smartest decision.
I just heard that the Prairieton Levy is about to break and flood their home again. Apparently they had just been there an hour ago getting some essentials and personal effects.
On a lighter note, I gave Bran her first riding lesson on a 250cc-ish Honda on Saturday and she picked it up like a natural. By the end of the day she was on the Harley and we went for a short spin around Smallville. In short order we had a pig on our tail, one expired tag, one tag registered to a dead guy, and a rider without the likes of the permit. Bran noticed too and killed it twice at the next stop sign. I turned around, waved, and tried to give the cop a "she's learning!" smile while I hoped he was checking out her rear instead of my expired plate. I had planned a trip to the DMV on Saturday to renew both cars and the roadster and to transfer Virgil's bike into our name, but the water had the highway blocked until the late afternoon. The DMV closes at noon on Saturdays.
Twitter must be one oversubscribed mofo with all the server time-outs. Circle the lagwagons.
I'm amazed that this data center didn't take any water, but the south side of town is much lower and seems to have taken the most damage. The bridges and roads of my normal route of commute are either still under water or royally fuct, but we're taking an alternative route that's not much longer.
(My boss and comrade) Bill's daughter and son-in-law have lost their home. They waited 12 hours for a boat to evacuate them...2 hours after the Mayor made a statement on television that everyone was safe and receiving professional attention. Their home is a modular and won't likely ever be 'right' even after insurance fixes it, and in a lot of cases it's not surprising if the owners simply walk away and let the bank take the house back without throwing any money away on it...and fear of these same events reoccurring is a big factor as well. It'ss a big shitshake for a person's credit, but some consider writing it off entirely to be the smartest decision.
I just heard that the Prairieton Levy is about to break and flood their home again. Apparently they had just been there an hour ago getting some essentials and personal effects.
On a lighter note, I gave Bran her first riding lesson on a 250cc-ish Honda on Saturday and she picked it up like a natural. By the end of the day she was on the Harley and we went for a short spin around Smallville. In short order we had a pig on our tail, one expired tag, one tag registered to a dead guy, and a rider without the likes of the permit. Bran noticed too and killed it twice at the next stop sign. I turned around, waved, and tried to give the cop a "she's learning!" smile while I hoped he was checking out her rear instead of my expired plate. I had planned a trip to the DMV on Saturday to renew both cars and the roadster and to transfer Virgil's bike into our name, but the water had the highway blocked until the late afternoon. The DMV closes at noon on Saturdays.
Twitter must be one oversubscribed mofo with all the server time-outs. Circle the lagwagons.
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Date: 2008-06-09 08:35 pm (UTC)LolZ
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Date: 2008-06-10 12:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-10 03:40 pm (UTC)Bran looks like a badass on that bike and the kids are too adorable.
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Date: 2008-06-10 07:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-11 04:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-11 12:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-11 04:14 pm (UTC)I think you should try it if ever granted the opportunity! I would be very wary about riding in a city, but there are perfect highways here in nowhere land(, perfect for this nowhere man, making all my nowhere plans for nobody).
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Date: 2008-06-12 12:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
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