I am both longing for and dreading next week's episode.

I just went down to the garage to take out the trash. This proved to be a mistake. Almost the entire courtyard is under several inches of water.

I'm very glad at the moment that my unit is placed where it is. If I wasn't near the front door and I'd probably have water creeping up to my doorstep right now.

Sounds like one hell of a storm in CA -- definitely hurricane strength, to be sure. Hopefully, all the earthquake-reinforced buildings will be up to it, but still -- if the trees and such haven't had high winds in a whole lot of years, all the weaker ones come down at once.

And I understand, from a landscaping friend of mine in SF, eucalyptus trees will come down if you look at them hard. Quite an entertaining rant, actually....

Timelies all!

Bleah. Waiting for the Advil to kick in. (Don't have a full headache, just the edges of one. I did have the weird blurry-flashy-colors-in-my-vision thing at breakfast, so I know the headache's coming.)

So, it seems I finally have power! Must have been repaired sometime in the night. Which is good since PG & E's last message before I went to sleep was they might have more info by 5pm on Saturday!

It was weird coming home last night. On West Portal, blocks were alternately lit or dark. Like, on the first block the stores on the north side were lit, while those on the south side were dark. The next block was the reverse. The godawful-Christmas-lights house was all ablaze just down the block, but we had no electricity.

Needless to say, games were played. Word to the wise: Cards can be hard to read by candlelight.

Sadly, no power last night means no FNL on the TiVo today!

And I understand, from a landscaping friend of mine in SF, eucalyptus trees will come down if you look at them hard.

Yes, this happened when I was in college-- an unusually heavy rain brought down a two-ton tree because the roots are so shallow.

jengod gets the FNL fever!

Jengod YAY!!!

So, it seems I finally have power!

Guys, I think megan has turned into He-Man.

Hopefully the pageboy will work out better for her. I'm fairly certain the pink tunic over white top combo will, at any rate.

Hopefully the pageboy will work out better for her.

I dunno; her hair seems too wavy for a He-Man pageboy.

But I gave myself the giggles picturing her in her apartment, holding a re-illuminated lamp aloft, yelling "I have the POWER!!!!!!" a la He-Man.

I heart jengod. But I can't read that, prolly, because I'm behind on FNL.

Where are eucalyptus trees' original habitat?

Our work team is here and they're off to a bad start. They were still asleep when we showed up at 7 to get them. They took 45 minute showers. Then one of them spilled coffee all over himself at the site (we're under wind advisory) and started out cranky.

Then I hurried back to teach lessons, but three of my students canceled or didn't show up. However, that gave me introvert time, so that's probably good. Then I went to get gas and the pump was in use. I guess they'd gone in to pay or something. So I left without getting gas. Then I went to the local store and they had neither the grout I needed or the glass block. Then I got the propane bill for our first load and it's at the wrong rate.

Now I have to go load wood onto the porch because it's supposed to rain and/or snow here today.

I'm trying not to be cranky this early in the trip because I need the saved labor they're going to provide me, but erg.