Also aw stoner pig.

Are you on the east side, I hope? (I feel like if I were afraid evacuation were coming, I would pack the car in advance, just to be prepared, but that's me.)

So Buddy is coming along! I think he hated living in the shelter inside the pet store, but maybe he's getting lonely during the day, because he comes running right to me when I get home. And he's let me pick him up and poke him in various ways, when he just hissed at anyone who approached him in the shelter. So that's good! I had been worried about if I would ever be able to cut his nails, and it seems like I will.

Bay Area smoke report: air quality is noticeably worse in San Francisco. Being thirty miles south in Hayward pays off today. The air is thick and heavy and the sunlight is a weird orangey color. Reminds me of the LA smog before all the clean air efforts these last few decades.

Finally get home and my eyes are still itchy and watery. I know one person who is feeling lucky and is sitting in her house only five miles away from the Tubbs Fire; and another who lost her house but managed to get her disabled dad to Kaiser just in time to be evacuated.

Whee! Interesting times!

the sunlight is a weird orangey color

I hate that color. The light in Utah is that color frequently in the summer.

Yay, Buddy! Does he need a buddy?

G's pigs are named Annalise and Luna and the late-Via. G named all but Via- she had originally belonged to another neighbor girl who, when she heard G was begging for a guinea pig, offered hers since she really wasn't able to spend much time with her once she started school sports.

I hate fire season, and I don't even live in fire country anymore.

I'm east of one of the evacuation centers so I think I'm still okay. I do plan to pack up the car when I get home.

ETA although I just realized, like, minutes ago that I left my car east of 80 this morning. I hope that isn't going to be a problem.

Yay, Buddy! Does he need a buddy?

That seems pretty unlikely from the way he hissed at the spot where another cat had been in the shelter!

The air in downtown Oakland was just awful this afternoon, and the smoke/haze was so thick I couldn't even see the cranes at the Port just a mile away (my office is on the 7th floor). But then it cleared a bit, and it was much better on the bus home. But I'm still keeping the windows closed tonight.

I'm worried about Sonoma County tonight: the wind is supposed to pick up again. My sister's in-laws are staying at her house, but without any possessions or their car -- just their bird and some toiletries they picked up at CVS.

It's all so scary and stressful.

-t, do stay safe! Do you have a go-bag packed?

Buddy is his own buddy.

Ok, I know I said I was gonna pack up the car tonight but I just got home and I am tired. New plan is to say "fuck it" to working tomorrow morning and just go ahead a leave then. It occurred to me in my journey home that my house is only in danger if the fire jumps the interstate, and if that happens it is going to be damned difficult to get anywhere. Fleeing down HWY 12 with half of Fairfield sounds like a nightmare scenario.

For now I'm gonna get some rest and check for news.

Sorry to keep dumping all this on y'all, but you're a giant component of my support network and so easy to reach.

Just be safe, -t.