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Morning Sun
Sep. 1st, 2008 07:51 amIt is 7:50 a.m. on Labor Day. I suppose it's bad enough that I'm even awake, but on top of that, I'm listening to Fields of the Nephilim.
So, here we are, just a few days past the three-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall near New Orleans, and another very powerful hurricane, Gustav, is a few hours away from hitting the coast, this time on the opposite side of the city from the previous storm. Some 700 people are still missing from the first time around. The repairs to the city's flooding defenses are far from complete, and they were never that good to begin with. Mayor Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation order, and from what I last heard, the vast majority of the city's population were getting out. The first evacuees assigned to my fair state arrived in Louisville yesterday, and Lexington was deactivated as a refugee site. Thus far, I haven't heard any jackass screaming about this being their "God's punishment for sin," but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. The Times-Picayune is still updating their website, and that's a good sign. I expect to visit there rather a lot today.
iWork is nice. So much so that I don't expect that I'll need InDesign until it's time to begin laying out material for print. That makes me happy.
Hunter: the Vigil continues to impress. Scored a couple of new books at Half-Price Books yesterday (hooray for 20% off weekends) - a beaten-up copy of Boston Unveiled for Mage and a darn-near pristine copy of Feng Shui.
Writing today, after a quick trip to the grocery in the next little bit.
Because I needed me some football, I watched parts of the UK/UofL game yesterday (forgive me, I was weak). Holy cow, 27-2, UK. Louisville did know the game was scheduled for yesterday, right?
Jumping back to crazy sin-obsessed nutjobs for a minute, there was one on an episode of Law & Order yesterday. Played by Jeffrey Donovan, who I'm more used to seeing as Michael Westen on Burn Notice.
Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans.
So, here we are, just a few days past the three-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall near New Orleans, and another very powerful hurricane, Gustav, is a few hours away from hitting the coast, this time on the opposite side of the city from the previous storm. Some 700 people are still missing from the first time around. The repairs to the city's flooding defenses are far from complete, and they were never that good to begin with. Mayor Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation order, and from what I last heard, the vast majority of the city's population were getting out. The first evacuees assigned to my fair state arrived in Louisville yesterday, and Lexington was deactivated as a refugee site. Thus far, I haven't heard any jackass screaming about this being their "God's punishment for sin," but I'm sure it's just a matter of time. The Times-Picayune is still updating their website, and that's a good sign. I expect to visit there rather a lot today.
iWork is nice. So much so that I don't expect that I'll need InDesign until it's time to begin laying out material for print. That makes me happy.
Hunter: the Vigil continues to impress. Scored a couple of new books at Half-Price Books yesterday (hooray for 20% off weekends) - a beaten-up copy of Boston Unveiled for Mage and a darn-near pristine copy of Feng Shui.
Writing today, after a quick trip to the grocery in the next little bit.
Because I needed me some football, I watched parts of the UK/UofL game yesterday (forgive me, I was weak). Holy cow, 27-2, UK. Louisville did know the game was scheduled for yesterday, right?
Jumping back to crazy sin-obsessed nutjobs for a minute, there was one on an episode of Law & Order yesterday. Played by Jeffrey Donovan, who I'm more used to seeing as Michael Westen on Burn Notice.
Happy Labor Day to my fellow Americans.
