-t, I hope the fire will be under control quickly. Stay safe.

msbelle, what everyone said. Things are really not normal.

Continued health~ma to Nova.

Look, I dated that guy. For YEARS.

Did I mention how much I love Debet lately? Because I do. (I blanked most of my 20s from memory after getting sick for two years because life was very different after recovery, but I clearly remember spending years of my life with these dudes online. I thought of them as my "liberal pets [in training]". Some of their emails are still rotting, unanswered, in my email).

Remember Tuesday morning when I said my great niece was admitted to the hospital to be induced, well as of this morning I finally have a great great niece. Can't believe my sister is a great grandmother! Anyway, little Paisley arrived via cesarean this morning. She is a really pretty and good sized at 7 lb 13 oz. Parents, grandparents, and others kinda exhausted.

eta: and she shares a birthday with Dana, so how cool is that?

Oh, wonderful news! Congrats!

And happy birthday, Dana!

whew y'all.

having my first cry of the day.

the news. the pain in my friends' posts. my black friends are not doing well.

and then work. I just got an email about a 521 (and growing daily) line spreadsheet I have been building/keeping - that yesterday I was asked to add some info to (which involves going back through the 521 forms). OK - fine. The today a co-worker in another division of my department emails and says "my spreadsheet has the info they need". ??????? We've both been doing data entry off these forms? WTAF. I can not! people!

Yay baby!

Happy Dana day!

I can't find any official notice or report that the fire is out but NextDoor says only the street closest to the marsh is blocked off so I guess I will go home. It sounds like all the damage was on Maple St.

I have emailed my boss about the duplicate work.

At least now I have seen the two spreadsheets side by side. She was missed a lot of entries, so I at least feel like my work was not wasted.

I am headed into the office in half an hour. Trying to get myself together before then. Putting on office clothes to help with that. Now food. food might help.

the news. the pain in my friends' posts. my black friends are not doing well.

I understand. This morning I welled up when I saw the protest at the capital with all of them on the ground for 9 minutes. Just so overwhelming. DH and I think about all our basketball kids and the dangers that they endure that our biological sons don't. They visit, and I want to hug them, but can't. Actually I told our nearly 7' Max over the weekend that I probably could hug him safely because we would still breathe about 3' apart. He laughed and mimed hugging me. The kids have been coming by to help DH with his construction project. They are still working out, but no real basketball yet, so they are bored.

Still haven't found anything official, but I came home and while there's still smoke rising into the sky from nearby it is (a) farther away and (b) so much less than yesterday that I feel pretty safe.

Now I'm supposed to work which seems pretty silly but I'm sure I'll get back into the rhythm of that soon enough

Good to hear all is well at the home front. Yeah, a bit hard to focus I imagine.

I woke up in the middle of the night, and smelled smoke, and thought "OMG have the protests ended up with shit on fire?!?" and got up and sorta smelled out my window....and then realized no, it's just that my hair and clothes smelled like smoke because I was at a friend's for outside distanced dinner and they had a fire going. Doh.