Just got a text from jbarr76 -- his power is out (and apparently his land line, since I can't call him on it), but he's okay otherwise. I assume I'll hear all the gory storm details when power is restored and he can count on being able to charge his cell if it runs down.

The gravity of the Gustav is starting to get through to me. It looks like it could be worse than Katrina. (As is the possibility that we can now expect "100-year storms" every couple of years or so.) ...back away from it. You do not want that, and it is beneath you. There are so many more legitimate (and far less creepy) attack angles, if you care to make attacks. Leave the kerning for the wingnuts

I wish you could stay. And maybe that's selfish? But I think I'd rather be selfish than alone. Also: Why do all the women on PBS look like they've just stepped out of an Eaton's catalogue?

Tokyo The sky was gray for as far as the eye could see, stretching from horizon to horizon without interruption as though it was the proper color and not the effect of the low clouds. With the gray...to need an umbrella but left the sidewalks and railings slick and clothes damp. The sun rose and set without remark, the only sign of the coming night being a slow deepening of the solid gray sky.

I walked home today, down EDSA in the rain. See, that's my optimism about the weather: I step out of the house each day perfectly convinced that it can't possibly rain because hello, I'm out. That... and working, of the making-money working sort. I'm tired, I'm stressed, I'm jetlagged without going anywhere, and running on a massive sleep debt, but this is a good place to be. I can't pinpoint why

Okay, so first thing on my mind this morning is that we actually had a decent thunderstorm last night. Like I said before, I love it when nature gives a shit. Seriously here lately, it's like nature's...robe, and he smiled at me. Not at me in the dream, but he looked directly at me and gave a thumbs up. And he just said two words. "I understand." And thus ends the weirdest dream I've had in ages

The humidity dropped off sometime last night. It's sunny and breezy today. In Nova Scotia? In the summer ?? Miracle of miracles! So I have reasonable sunshine, art to work on, script to work on, music...drawing the city. I have an idea in my head for a pen-and-ink of the House of Wolves outside the city, too, but we'll see how it goes. I love it when stories set off that little artsy tick in my brain

Ok, so the 5 day looks a little like this Which is not so bad, warm with the odd shower. Of course, being as LARP events tend to develop their own special weather system we shall see.

Technology, is it a curse or a blessing? Well, everything has it’s pro’s and con’s. Yes it’s true, without technology we’d still be sitting round a bonfire thinking about when our next meal would be... after all these confusing argument on whether technology is good or bad, I’ll have to conclude that you cannot judge technology. It is only determined by how the person who owns it uses it.

I was terribly irritable at work yesterday, and in consultation it was decided that I wasn't the only irritable person. Some people would suggest that the reason is high noise levels and corridor congestion...the queen. Of the elves. And on a similar topic, there's a new game on Facebook called Falling Furries . There's a problem of motivation for that game though, ie would you be keen to rescue them