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My happy things for yesterday were easy to know.

1. Never going more than 2 blocks from my house all day, and rarely even leaving my bed. That hasn't happened in years. Parking my car at work all weekend meant not having to play moving cars roulette with the city lot and our parking space.

2. The Solstice. I need more light. MORE LIGHT! Now it's coming.

In related news:

Portland Oregon, a shoo in for "most likely moving place" for us, has lost a lot of its lustre in the past week. I know that it's unusual weather, but the whole Pacific Northwest looks disconcertingly like New England this week. Of course, since it doesn't happen all the time, the city is unprepared, and the portland lj community is full of desperate pleas of various kinds (mostly "what liquor stores are open?!") and discussion of tire chains. Tire chains? Didn't those go out with the invention of snow tires, except for crossing the Donner Pass in January? Those poor bastards are in snow covered raincoats, eating xmas cookies intended for friends they can't reach, wondering what pizza place has a sherman tank that can get through their unsalted roads to feed them.

How are things in Austin, my Austiney friends?

Date: 2008-12-23 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] propaddict.livejournal.com
Damn. . .forgot about the hurricanes.

Yeah, we get them here. Hasn't destroyed Corpus in recent memory. The insurance is pretty cheap, too ($8 a month for $170K of cvg). And all the houses are brick or geodesic domes, so mainly it's the storm surge/flooding that will wreck our fun. Which could be a deal breaker for you.

Date: 2008-12-24 12:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com
hurricanes aren't so bad in the scheme of things.

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