I took a nap. It actually helped. Unfortunately, I have to leave for my concert in an hour.
Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here
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.
I knew you were kidding. I was just commenting that we do talk about all that stuff and it's interesting.
Oh, no. There's something going on at Johnson Space Center, somebody shooting.
xpost. I'm watching CNN. They know nothing, basically.
Yeah, we've been watching on the local news. They don't seem *too* freaked, all things considered.
OMG you guys, our whole internet was down all day at work -- no email, no nothing. Ugh! And all the bosses were gone, so we all spent a lot of time standing around chatting. I did get a decent amount of work done, but still. Finally, my boss called in and said we could go at 4. So we did! The end.
Johnson Space Center update from CNN: one hostage dead, one released unharmed, shooter suicided. Good god.
I'm on three different breaking news e-mail lists, and yet I get the news first here 80 percent of the time.
I only knew about because my sister called me from the road and said she heard about it on the radio and wanted more info, so I turned on CNN. Her boyfriend is a VA Tech alumnus, and they've both been very upset over this. My sister's girls are at UVA, and that's... just way too close, somehow.
So what are people doing this weekend?
Tech. I have to go in super early tomorrow because the building closed at 4pm today (WTF?) and I still have to get power to my dimmer packs and focus the lights.