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.