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.

Survived 35 lbs of cat at the vet. Loki's fat (surprise,) Mister Kitty lost some weight, but a blood check shows his sugar isn't high, and both he and Devi need their teeth cleaned. Mrph.

Poor Devi cried the whole way up and back and is being very clingy now, though I can't pick her up- she bolts. But she's still crying at me and sticking close.

OK, more errands!

I have the plague. No karate for me today. I wish I could sleep, but I can't breathe.

For the appetizer, we decided to do a toothpick thing, since we had a lot of what we needed. Sausage, cheese, basil, roasted red pepper, and some with roasted garlic, all skewered on a toothpick.