Timelies all!

Our house only dates back to the 1970s, so no fancy door handles here.

Thanks for all the links. I think the shiny brass-plate may be age appropriate, but I am much more of a chrome girl, so I think a change at some point will have to happen. The house is a 1961, and very much a traditional, not modern for the mid-century style. I love the old smaller real brass ones in my 1930s co-op, and I may buck authenticity to get something like them or glass at some point.

ION I feel like warmed over doo this morning and would like to just stay in bed all day.

Shit.

I think my sister and nieces have to evacuate. They would totally be in the evacuation zone as all of the news is coming out of Ewa Beach, where they live, and their house is across the street from the beach.

ETA And in talking to my mom, my sister + family are evacuating, heading to her in-laws' place who are further inland and uphill. Yoiks. Ewa Beach is exactly where it's going to hit and they believe it will at 11:00. The evacuation bells should ring at 6:00. I hope she's already out.

In lighter news, Johnny Weir's response to the Quebecois who were asshats about him ("“We should make him [Weir] pass a gender test at this point,” and Mailhot then joking that Weir should compete in the women’s competition. The two broadcasters later issued an on-air apology.") is pretty awesome, including

“I would challenge anyone to question my upbringing and question my parents’ ideals and feelings about bringing up me and my brother, who’s completely different from me but taught very much the same way that I was,” Weir said.

Link here [link]

Yikes, Kat. I'm glad they are evacuating!

And I watched all of Be Good Johnny Weir yesterday and enjoyed it A Great Deal.

Lots of safety-ma for your family, Kat.

Oh Kat, all fingers crossed. Very scary.

I loved the house I spent high school in, circa 1910. No fireplace (because I was told it showed you were wealthy enough not to need it for heat), but a butler's pantry off the kitchen, wide front porch that wrapped around one corner, cut-glass doorknobs, claw foot tub in the bathroom, and the two push-button light switches everywhere.

So much the house of my heart. I still miss it.

Uh, to be clear, the house was built circa 1910, I did not attend high school then. Need more caffeine now.

Oh, crap, Kat. Thinking good safe thoughts for your sister and nieces (and any other Buffista beloveds in HI).

I can't even imagine 8.8. CNN is saying it's approximately 1,000 times stronger than the Haiti quake. I just want to run around swaddling the entire human race in bubble wrap.

May your family be safe, Kat!

I just want to run around swaddling the entire human race in bubble wrap.

And buying an emergency kit and packing some clothes and water.

Plus with the 7.0 in Okinawa yesterday (and all of the 5.0+ aftershocks) it seems time to get stuff in order, like the San Andreas has been pretty quiet and maybe this is all activity indicative of more to come.