I grew up in tornado country, and I've been through three. I used to say I preferred them as a natural disaster because you could go into a shelter and wait it out, and the path was narrow so even if one hit, you were unlikely to be in its direct path. But these big tornadoes are something else, taking out whole towns.
Here we have drought and wildfire, and I'm not fond of either, I must say. The drought is a little worse because it affects everyone all the time, but the wildfires are so bad and scary and there's nothing you can do about them except get out of their way. It's stressful to be evacuated or to host evacuees, and there's often a lot of misinformation because the duration of the disaster is so long. Earthquakes and hurricanes happen, but then they finish eventually. Wildfires often take months. Which is good in terms of loss of life, but also stressful.
Yay for Cinci folks getting together! Our music store's coffeeshop just did their soft open and I met up with a friend there today, so that was nice.
Gawker or Jez reposted a story about this Whitney Houston greeting (??) card, and like buzzfeed, I'm trying to work out in which situation you give that to someone. Is that ever an answer? It's gotta be a gag gift.
Speaking of gifts, the vendor we did a project with gave me the strangest branded swag I've ever gotten in my two decades of IT--a wine cooler bag. It's big enough to fit a neoprene wine crate, but tailored to fit as a plane carry-on, and has wheels and a handle. And their logo.
I don't even know. I've never owned that much wine at one time, much less bought it in one shot. It's such a weird thing to assume everyone in the project is a drinker, and a wine drinker, and sufficiently an afficionado that that would be appreciated. I mean, statistically assume, anyway.
Internally, we got pens and stick-on cellphone screen cleaners with the project logo on it. The pens are pretty decent and the reusable screen wipes are undeniably handy for just about everyone, even if totally random. Project logo is on my phone all the time now. Pretty nifty.
Damn, I really do need to tidy my living room.
I don't want to live near any natural disasters, but if I had to pick I'd stick with blizzards because that's what I'm used to. And since NYC has buried power lines, they don't do as much damage here as other places.
Turns out sometimes the Starks are wrong.
I'm going to start referring to global warming as the beginning of the Long Summer.
Oh shit, I was supposed to buy groceries on my way home! It was so nice outside I completely forgot. Cereal for dinner, kids!
I would vote for the Long Summer, in a heartbeat.
I don't want to live near any natural disasters, but if I had to pick I'd stick with blizzards because that's what I'm used to.
This. I can deal with a Nor'Easter, but earthquakes and tornadoes and hurricanes freak me out.
We have tornadoes, earthquakes, flash floods, and the occasional brushfire here. Tornadoes are definitely the ones I'd most like to do without.
Weather is just weird.
We got about 3 inches of snow in under two hours and my best friend who lives 45 minutes east of me has almost none.
For some reason, they sent me another corporate card. With a different number. A month later. I don't even know. Not looking forward to sorting this out.
Here in NC we get the occasional tornado, hurricanes, and once every 10 years or so, some serious snow.
Oh, and an earthquake in 2011.
It's a good thing NC's pretty.
