Our government clients are having a meeting in the D.C. area starting on Monday. Whoops. Fortunately, the planning is not our problem this year, because they took it away from us.
Yeah... That went well.
Mal ,'Trash'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Oct 28, 2012 2:37:51 pm PDT #27416 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Calli - Oct 28, 2012 2:51:43 pm PDT #27417 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I was just coming by to post that Joss vid. Parkour!
Jesse - Oct 28, 2012 3:02:35 pm PDT #27418 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good one, msbelle!
My job is cancelled for tomorrow, which is AWESOME. I can check my email and otherwise not worry about working.
Jessica - Oct 28, 2012 3:03:26 pm PDT #27419 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Because an overhyped weather (or traffic!) warning is no one's friend. Also the possibility of being weathered in with DVDs and hot chocolate sounds fun.
Yeah, NYC in particular could really use a measured response to an actual natural disaster. After the zero preparedness to the Christmas Blizzard (which wound up being a massive clusterfuck) and the over-preparedness to Irene (which wound up being a massive non-event), we just have no clue how this emergence preparedness thing is supposed to work.
Fairway this morning was still more or less fully stocked, but they were running low on decent sandwich bread and bottled water. (We filled up all our giant water jugs yesterday, but I did need to buy some weird diet bread instead of my usual Arnold whole wheat.)
What I don't understand is that Sandy is supposed to be the good girl, and Rizzo is the one to watch out for.
BWAH!
I assume we've all seen this?
Fred Pete - Oct 28, 2012 3:24:31 pm PDT #27420 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Federal government is closed tomorrow in DC. The announcement was made at 5:35. That's the earliest announcement I can remember.
Amy - Oct 28, 2012 3:26:27 pm PDT #27421 of 30001
Because books.
Our schools -- and most schools along the Philly to NYC corridor, I think -- are closed for Monday and Tuesday already. We have food, but I realized I need to bake something tonight in case we have no power in the morning -- we don't have anything but cold cereal for the kids otherwise.
sarameg - Oct 28, 2012 3:26:55 pm PDT #27422 of 30001
Aaaand now we're closed tomorrow. So maybe I'll go swimming in the morning t /crazed swimmer
Jessica - Oct 28, 2012 3:29:15 pm PDT #27423 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My offices are both closed tomorrow. DH's office is technically open but I assume that's because NBC also broadcasts the evening news out of that building and those people will need to get to work somehow.
Juliebird - Oct 28, 2012 3:32:32 pm PDT #27424 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Awesome!ED texted everyone back around 3pm to make the call that we were not to come into work on Monday. So no anxiety of do I/do I not have to wake up early, or the quiet resentment that it's a "those with office jobs don't bother coming in, but my dept. has to" situation. If it had been Old!Evil!ED, the text would have read "you don't *have* to come in if you don't want to (but it will cost you a vacation day if you stay home)".
le nubian - Oct 28, 2012 3:34:56 pm PDT #27425 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Jessica,
OMG that Sandy picture map is the BOMB.