The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

Post Reply New Topic

Better than Santa Claus winds

yeah, merle. i saw the headlines this morning. oh hell.
santa anas. just oh hell.

dang.

oh well. and no, i'd rather have santa claus winds.

Philly Willy and the Hillbillies". you're kidding, right?

i have to go home and cook supper in a bit. made french onion soup last night, from scratch. was really good, but it's too hot for soup - 3 onions, 3 cloves garlic, reduce it in olive oil/butter. add 1/2 small bottle merlot, two cans of beef broth, a bit of water, salt, pepper, dash of worchestershire sauce, cook for three hours. very nice.

am too tired to cook tonight. sinuses are falling out. students all over, and there's still a strike call for thursday.

santa anas. that just makes it all SO much better.

am i just lucky, or is the board loading very slowly for the last several days for everyone?

The board has been a bit sluggish as of late.....
Especially when there are 700 people or more online...

must have been the europeans over the weekend then. one night i was trying to post at 2:00am local time and the board was just dragging so badly i thought there were problems with my internet connection.

So a friend took him and not some carjacked person. Good. I am relieved.
I am not scared of the word schizophrenia, knowing too many good people with it, but that guy's history was scary.

And speaking of scary, santa anna winds and fire, and thinking of how quickly things change, how are you Nan?

twitchy. very paranoid and twitchy. It's starting.

I'm literally right on the coast, and there's Jack-the-Ripper fog blowing in past me, towards inland. That tells me it's pretty darned hot inland. Go more than a mile or two from the coast, and I bet it's roasting. Happy to have the fog today, I know it will be gone tomorrow and the rest of the week and it'll heat up over here, too.

I'm going to be in trouble when I get home, though. Twenty miles inland. It was nice last night, so I opened all the windows and turned the A/C off and aired the house. This morning I closed up all the windows and had all the curtains down to try to beat some of the heat, and left for work. Without turning the A/C back on. Online instantaneous weather map says it's 94F and heating up by the minute out at the house, 9% humidity.

The cats are gonna roast, the kid's got my car so I'm stuck here, and Spike is going to be just pissed off bigtime. At least I remembered to fill everyone's water bowls extra full, and put extra bowls around the house and in the bird cages.

You haven't lived till you've been severely scolded by the Ounce of Terror. S/he's got a beak on its self, it does! Thinks it's an eagle! Amazing, I never realized that little birds like that really do have personalities, and express emotions so much. A lot of Spike's communication is body language, and it's cute. But s/he's stubborn as a mule and very opinionated at the same time.

I'm losing my mind, aren't I. I think I can talk to a bird... and it understands.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/22/califo ... index.html


eeeek! glad that's not near us. i grew up in the oildfields (a long way from here, but a field is a field) and that LAST thing they need is fire in an oilfield!

it gets better. dr. house's office called. NOW dr. house, after we fought and finally got the authorization for the tests he wanted done from the HMO, then fought to get to the correct lab, etc.,... sigh...

NOW he wants to change the tests to something else. Amit-A, mit-B, mit-C, at about $1,000 each. via the mayo. no explanation as to why the change, really. just that these are "much more powerful " tests wonder if the HMO's gonna go for that? the ombudsman at the HMO who's been trying to get the kid's labs straightened out sent an email this morning saying she was resigning from the HMO. and transferring the kid's file back to the endocrinologist's staff - the folks who lost the blood tests.

oy.. just oy. it's dead calm out, everything smells faintly of smoke, it wasn't too hot in the house, thankfully, and spike wants out of his cage for a fly-round, so i'm not getting "talk to the back, lady" i guess.

on your advice, merle, the appt to take the mito swab is for the 30th, and not the 28t.....

weather thingy says it's 113F at my home, 9-ish % humidity. thank goodness very little wind so far.

no other choice, merley. the cats, and even spike-the-wonder-bird are very, very clingy and insist on staying within about 4 feet away from at least one of us at all times, when we're home. no idea what they're doing while we're not, but probably hiding in the closet, if i know that old cat. except for spike. who has only his condo cage.

there are a lot of helicopters out and above today, but they are probably just news copters covering the strikers. which were supposed to be at the main entrance to campus this morning at 7 but weren't when we wenty by. it's hot, but not as bad as it could be here now. i can't imagine trying to do a picket line at any of the places they said they were going to be - no shade. at the house... i watched the online temp thingy go up a degree every time it reloaded, this morning. it's somewhere around 108F now, but as long as the power doesn't fail the cats (and the ounce of terror) will be just cozy. when we got home yesterday there was no wind at all at our place, it was just baking in the sun. we were debating cracking an egg on the sidewalk to see what would happen, but as we'd have to have cleaned it up again decided not to. it was absolutely dead calm, which was weird, because we'd gone down the hill into the next town over and it was blowing like mad over there. got out of the car to run into the grocery store and it was like being stuck under a blow-dryer on high. the kid had to rest after we got in under the A/C, just from the walk from the parking lot. ick! but this one, overall, seems to be holding off, hitting mostly north of us. they're getting whacked with some intense winds - it's kind of amazing how you can walk and at one point there is no wind at all, go a half a mile and it's a gale, go another mile and it's dead calm again. that's the bad part, the winds. the heat is bad, but when the wind is blowing 45mph it's like a blowtorch.

on the good side. they say it'll likely ease up by tomorrow evening, and then we really only have until about Halloween. typically, if it ain't happened by then, we've made it through another year. that's not so very long from now.

The forecast at Lake Whoop-Dee-Doo: Sunny this morning , Clouds later with rain and 90% chance of lay-offs and job-cuts....