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.
Jesus. There should be a parable about that, something to do with wolves.
Holy shit, that's really awful (the false alarms).
I haven't visited Tumblr in awhile. I tend to go down weird rabbit holes. Also after all this time on and off of it I'm never sure if anyone sees when I comment or if I'm just talking into a void.
I went to work this morning when it wasn't snowing or sleeting. Had planned to come home around 11 but it still wasn't that bad and so I kept working then around 3 I really looked out side and was like--oh that's slush.
The drive home was...part was fine. And then it turned slushy, the most used area. All slush. So I was going slowly and not doing anything weird and coming up 276 right before you get to Furman University there is a hill and a curve...and going home it's downhill. About 6 or 7 cars had gone sliding off the road (I think 2 hit each other, I'm not sure). and there were tow trucks getting them out. I had to drive down the hill around the curve with all of that. I made it though. Going 10 mph part way.
I'm off tomorrow and the high is supposed to be 40 so this will all clear up.
Everyone is panic buying stuff, we've run out of milk two or three times. I was working on getting stuff on the shelves and this guy was sorta complaining about prices and I said "well it's bird flu, you know it's in dairy cows too". And his reply was:
Thank god it's all going to be fixed in 10 days.
How is bird flu or the prices going to be fixed? Trump. I just put on a cheery face and was like "yeah I know it's going to be rough for while with those tariffs but then Musk says it will get better". I shouldn't have been trolling him like that I was at work but he just....he had that vibe.
FB is pushing my local news which has a lot of LA fire coverage it's posting and I keep reading the comments. I need to stop that way leads ....;flames! flames on the side of my face.
Oh! The manager is shutting our store down at 7 pm! The previous store manager would have never done that.
