We were headed home last night at around 6:30 and when the sun hit the smoke line, the sun looked bright red. Then it got blocked out completly. We're too far away to get any ash but we could faintly smell it. Very scary.
It's my estimation that... every man ever got a statue made of him, was one kind of sumbitch or another.
Mal ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DawnK - Sep 30, 2005 10:52:59 am PDT #2390 of 10002
giraffe mode
Tom Scola - Sep 30, 2005 10:55:44 am PDT #2391 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
msbelle, the store on 23rd St isn't too far from work, is it?
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 11:04:41 am PDT #2392 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need to make a call, but the iPod is holding me hostage. Keeps playing music I really like.
Intellectually I understand a) that's because I'm playing the 'highly rated' playlist and b) I'm trying to change my patterns.
But it's HARD.
Connie Neil - Sep 30, 2005 11:09:00 am PDT #2393 of 10002
brillig
HR keeps sending out e-mails reminding us that bad smells do not poor air quality make. They must be being hounded.
However, smoke hanging visibly in the air INSIDE do poor air quality make. At my old place, a fire broke out in the mountains a couple of miles away, and no one thought to shut down the air intakes that was pumping all the smoky air directly into the offices.
Calli - Sep 30, 2005 11:11:37 am PDT #2394 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
We have air vents rather close to the loading docks. So, in spite of big signs saying to not park trucks with the motors running next to the vents, we get eau du interstate on a regular basis.
§ ita § - Sep 30, 2005 11:12:03 am PDT #2395 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Once, at my very first full time job, the elevators were shut down for no discernible reason. So I took the stairs. The reason got itself discerned, all right -- there was a glue fire in the shoe store that was feeding right into the stairwell. Not only did I get to leave early, I had to go to the ER.
Blech.
Phone call was made. Onto next task.
Lee - Sep 30, 2005 11:18:26 am PDT #2396 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I haven't done any tasks today. Yay!
msbelle - Sep 30, 2005 11:21:55 am PDT #2397 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
thanks for your support Perkins.
Tom! Stop with the sense-making. TWC is FORCIN me to go to the mall I tell ya, FORCING ME!
Jesse - Sep 30, 2005 11:32:22 am PDT #2398 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've done several tasks today, but I cannot pick a topic for my paper due in a couple of weeks, and it's making me nuts.
Burrell - Sep 30, 2005 11:32:35 am PDT #2399 of 10002
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I need to start doing tasks.
The air stinks, and it is mildly freaking me out in a neurotic-Westside-mom kind of way. Also the car was covered in ashes this morning. Weird.