I am pissed off at Instagram because my feed is now 60% algorithm instead of people I follow, and it's not in chronological order. So by the time I see the post about the cool Korean pop-up at the beer garden around the corner, it's for three days ago.

I have the day off and probably should have worked, because TFG says he is gonna freeze hiring on day 1, and I am in the middle of hiring someone I desperately need. (I wonder if the Executive Order would forbid transfers? Two of the candidates are already federal employees.)

I’m on Bluesky under my non-fannish identity, but I’m happy to repost fannish stuff.

We’re expecting a couple of inches of snow tomorrow, but it’s MI in January, so no big deal.

I hope the winds are dying down in CA.

Ugh new fire in LA.

My brother, far far from the fires got an evac warning. It was a mistake sent out to a wider than meant list. Ffs.

This is fucking awful.

I'd be bitching louder about temps in the teens and 40mph wind gusts here these past couple days -- wicked and nasty -- but then I realize how much worse it could be.

My furnace is keeping up with the demand, and my car's heat is also good.

My friend Christie lost just about everything (except spouse, car, and pets) in the Paradise fire a few years back, and I bet the fire situation is giving her traumatic flashbacks. Me, whose aunt's family's vacation home on the Jersey Shore was essentially destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, that's enough to give me echo trauma, even if many thing turned out to be salvageable -- it's a psychic wound, when so much of "home" is lost.

I need to update the Buffista list on Bluesky. My project for tonight? Yes, if I can remember how you add to it. sigh

I'm stephbeckmeyer over there, and I put Buffista in my profile.

My brother, far far from the fires got an evac warning. It was a mistake sent out to a wider than meant list. Ffs.

I saw a post on FB from Allyson that said the same thing -- she got an evac warning, but then another message that said the first one was a mistake. How nerve-wracking.

The one nice thing about being stupid busy at work (this week has been one million years long) is I can't spend too much time following fire news. So far everyone I know is okay and I hope that continues

Got my self-review for 2024 done. I still cannot believe they are asking us to do this the same week as a mass layoff, but there it is.

Got my self-review for 2024 done. I still cannot believe they are asking us to do this the same week as a mass layoff, but there it is.

Ugh I had to do this two years ago, it 100% sucked.

I was so tempted to just not do it. What are they gonna do, fire me? Not give me a raise? Those are not unlikely regardless! But I actually like my immediate supervisor and it will make his life easier if I do it, so.

There have now been multiple false evacuation warnings. Apparently something is wrong with the system and it's an automated thing that's kicking in. Either way it's bad. I fear that at this point if a legitimate alert goes off too many of us are going to assume it's not real.