Had a brief scare that something had broken and we were going to have to turn off water, but it seemed to be a weird fluke. So far, so good. We did talk to a plumber who gave a couple of recommendations, including turning the water off when we go to bed.

I got "lucky" when my pipes burst a few years ago because the gushing water shorted out the well pump and cut itself off. When we flipped the breaker back on it was an instant furious waterfall. I wasn't expecting the force of it.

Psst! Gudanov is Willy Wonka - pass it on

I was just about to ask about Gud again. Is this in reference to something?

OK, yay for vaccination, power returning, and sense of smell being back. Those were good morning reads.

Back at the vaccine clinic this morning for more volunteering. A little bummed I had to show up at 615 in order to then sit here for 45 minutes. But at least this morning I don’t need training. Didn’t have to get up AS early this morning because doggo is with a different friend until she drops him at daycare.

What do you/does one do there, meara?

Really yucky weather in Baltimore. Doesn’t look like much accumulation, but freezing rain is coming down fairly hard. I tried sweeping the snow off the bit of driveway out my side door and that was a hard nope ( this is how I gauge snow vs ice and wetness of snow).

Work is canceled. Now I spend all day worrying about people in Texas. One set of cousins in Austin have power but no water and have taken in a friend with no electricity. I’m going to reach out to the others there today. Mac seems to be fine, but I am going to reach out to f try rinds around to line up a place for him should he lose power/heat.

One set of friends had a pipe burst in the ceiling and a section of drywall fell into their living room. Another had all the pvc for their pool system bust. It’s really criminal how they let the electric grid go. And asshole Cruz flew his family to Cancun for vacation.

That just might be the thing people in Texas remember next time he's up for re-election. I hope all his future opponents of both parties are being photographed helping out people stuck by the side of the road and families without power or water.

How many times have we thought people would finally be offended by Ted Cruz? But yeah, I live in hope that people in Texas will figure out that AOC didn't sabotage their electrical grid.

I need to get more productive. And yet.

In all politics is local news, in past years the local city races have always been between known democrats, although they are in theory non-partisan. This year the wife of the state senator for the area, a Republican, changed her designation from Republican to Democrat the day after she announced that she was running for mayor. Tons of money and the nastiest lie filled campaign ever. Also a couple city commission seats experiencing the same kind of big money sabotage of long time local dems. And of course sign stealing, although they did immediately come replaced my signs when I emailed the current nice mayor's campaign. Yes, local level Republicans are scoundrels too.

Did I get my David's mixed up again?