Oh, this is randomly interesting -- I'm watching yesterday's Ellen, and Katherine Heigl and her husband are adopting a baby from Korea, in part because her sister was adopted from Korea as well. Huh.

U.S. Open:

Damn, Nadal.

Thunder is really that rare out in SF? Huh. Interesting.

I've lived here for just over two years. I've heard two thunderclaps. I never really realized I would miss them, but I do.

I feel like a real San Francisican now that I'm all like OMG Weather!

Thunder is really that rare out in SF? Huh. Interesting.

Yeah. I woke up around 3 this morning to the dry thunder, and it made me all nostalgic for Midwestern thunderstorms.

Come to think of it, we didn't really get much thunder-and-lightning in Alaska, either.

I feel like a real San Francisican now that I'm all like OMG Weather!

high-fives megan

It was surprisingly difficult to find the cable company's phone number without the internet!

I always get stuck in that position. Have I written it down yet? Oh, nosirree. I always surf unforgiving sites on my phone to find it each time.

I missed the tennis! I can only hope that a) the Tennis Channel replays it and b) I remember then. Hopefully I'll catch the women's semi. Need to check when they'll play Clisters/Williams, too.

Clisters (I swear there's a J in there somewhere) and Williams is tonight at 8PM eastern.

Thanks. At least that has a hard start time. Looks like Wickmayer/Wozniacki is just after the men's doubles, about which I give not a whit. The women's doubles doesn't usually run later than the men's does it? But I can't work out how rain could have gotten one so delayed and not the other.

I'm so sorry, aurelia! That has to be devastating for so many people.

sarameg, a fox?! I've seen what I believe to be a coyote in Somerville (from just far enough away to be sure about "that's NOT a dog") but foxes we haven't been blessed with.

The thunder has slacked off and the rain is all dried up, and we're watching Teen Titans and slowly gearing up for a preschool open house. Most of the Montessoris in San Francisco are as alarmingly expensive as anything else (though almost nothing is as bad as my employer's preschool/aftercare at $1365 a month), but by random Google-Yelping, we miraculously found an affordable one three blocks from home. We've probably walked past it a hundred times without ever noticing it. Open house starts in forty minutes. And on Monday we do a tour of an also-affordable one ten blocks away in the opposite direction. Please, please let one of them work out.

And, because it deserves its own post, aurelia, I'm so sorry. I had no idea how long and rich a history your employer had. That's got to be devastating for everyone; whenever a theater company goes under, something irreplaceable vanishes.