elanya

Work was fine, I'm working on getting more of my shit together. I didn't go on the roadtrip, which has been postponed until Friday. There are people coming in tomorrow who will probably be our contractors for or database and front end API. Please god, let them be competent and not just friends with N who he has made Promises to (I know they are that, but please let them at least be competent).

Today was unseasonably chilly. I was not properly dressed. boo.

Tonight was lovely, bedtime now. Night internets!

Tomorrow, I have to help give a skype tour about 3d printing to a group of grade three students. I have no idea how this is going to go!

I am already experiencing pushback for certain things and coinflicting vision things. *sigh* Day 3! Also complete lack of vision things. Well, we'll sort it out, probably.

Less cool is me pointing out that MCTguy is trying to bully me about billing things. Grr. How do deal? He might be right, maybe it isn't worth making a deal out of in this case - I don't know, I barely know the rules at this point. Bah. I tell myself it doesnt mater because we aren't going to be keeping it, but.... what else are we going to to with a million dollar machine that had to be installed via a crane? Well okay I have some ideas on that front, but we'll see. Push it into the creek has often been proposed but never yet implemented. At least it seems to be working now. For now. Ish.

Anyway. I've actually been feeling pretty alert/awake in the evenings so far. And tomorrow is Friday woooh! So I am transitioning okay. I had a meeting on campus this morning though that went well - I hit it off with the woman reviewing my benefits stuff really well, so it was...kind of fun? But I suppose that is literally her job, so - good on her! Also I was in the middle of drinking a giant tea.

Non-work things: I've been bad at Weather this week. Yesterday I wore my rain boots thinking it was supposed to pour, and it hardly rained at all and never while I was out. Today I wore my new sandals (I got Teva Tirras because they had good reviews and were relatively cheap - bets on whether they last me the summer!), and it was rainy *and* cold. I really need to just wash the mud off my boots so I can wear them again :P I didn't get rained on until my way home, at least, but I'd decided to go out to dinner since the fam was going out practically as I'd have been arriving for an event at the kids' school, and it BUCKETED as I was getting off the bus to that end. The sandals are fine in water, but my pant legs got wet and it was cold :( I got home, dried my feet, put on wool socks and my rubber boots, and had to take the dogs out. I really really need insoles for the boots though! Ahh well.

Also I write a star wars drabble: Symbol. It is not what I was meaning to write, but I still like it. It is about why Jedi always cut perfect circles with their light sabers. Wheee!

I still have no cake. If it hadn't been pouring and the dogs hadn't been waiting, I may have gone searching. Another time, I guess!

I stayed up too late last night for no real reason, and had a hard time waking up this morning as a consequence.

I did do a bunch of cool stuff once I got to the museum though. We recorded a walkthrough of me going through the VR Longhouse - I mostly wanted it to take screencaps from, since we didn't have any from this iteration of the program. But apparently they might use it for some other things, like... virtual virtual tours? or a commercial? There are some students from the local community college who are putting together something, anyway, plus something about some kind of partnership with Microsoft for skype tours? Anyway, then had some interesting discussions about the Database of Doom, and its future and uses.
Came home, did a teensy bit of writing on Space Swap, and helped with dinner. Tonight was knitting, and I got a bunch more done on my second sock for Pretentia. Going to watch the end of season 2 of sw: rebels here in a bit :3

The weather here today has sucked - it was sleety hail and snow this morning, followed by gross cold rain. It started pouring on the walk to the game café where we have the knit night, and I was chilled and cold after that. Probably the chocolate milkshake didn't help, but it *did* have bailey's in it. It wasn't raining on the trip home at least (though we managed to catch a bus), but the wind had turned bitter, and now it is thundering outside. But at least we aren't getting freezing rain and snow like other parts of the region!

I emailed the plot running types to see if I can find out what is going on with my LARP character, who volunteered to be hostaged off to some fey at the end of last game. I'd initially emailed on Monday, and hadn't heard anything back, so I sent a gentle poke. The next session is only a week from Saturday, so I don't think I'm being too pushy to at least have them tell me what to expect! I could NPC if I can't play her, and that's fine, but I would like to know :o

I was going to say that I forgot to post today, but actually I posted my Space Swap letter, and surely that counts! It's stormy tonight, but I'm hoping it will be all rained out by tomorrow when I have to bus/walk around. Sleep now - later all!

It snowed overnight, and I got my Serious Snow Boots out of storage for the first time this winter. It wasn't really necessary, except that the waterproofing on my other boots was failing, and I would have to trek through some ankle deep snow, and did want to deal with wet feet all day. It is cold atm. This weekend is is going to be well up over freezing again, and rainy and warm all next week. I think southern Ontario has forgotten how to Winter. I should probably not complain, but it is a little disappointing. Facebook keeps showing me all these ads for places to snowshoe in Ontario.... but that requires snow. At least the kids got to go sledding today at school!

In other news, I watched a lot of dog videos today as research for this fic I am working on. So many good dogs! There is a whole genre of tribute videos for hunting dogs that I accidentally discovered, which were sweet and kind of sad too, and also fascinating.

Other than that - it was knitting tonight, and I am very close to the end of this chart as well!I probably have one and a bit more charts left of yarn before I'm going to need the purple stuff. Which I am having dyed, so who knows how long it will be? I also want to redo the cowl I made for larp, because it is too loose. In time for the next larp game which is next weekend. I need to secure a ride and log!
We're on Season 5, Episode 10 of Clone Wars. Hondo is my favourite forever!

Not too much of interest to say. I did manage to get up early. One of the kidlets was sick, so his dad was home again today as well. I went to the mall with my sister and wound up buying more stuff than I'd intended (tights, pj pants, underpants, chocolate). I am Finished my story, and need to send it away, wooh! And I went to see Rogue One again tonight. I also made soup for dinner - it was tasty, despite rushing.

The weather here today was absolute balls. It started snowing over night, and snowed until around noon. And then it started raining. the streets were crap in the morning but fine in the afternoon, but the sidewalks remai a slushy, wet, icy mess. Ugh. It is suppose to freze overnight then be 'warm' again tomorrow, so more of the same. I hope my boots dry out some overnight :/ Wooh, winter in southern Ontario!

And now, bedtime :3

Monday is Canadian Thanksgiving. I hadn't thought to do much for it, but there were turkeys on sale last week for pretty cheap, and I got one for about $10! So I have invited some people over, and am about to go make pies (pumpkin and apple) now. I'm also planning to have mashed potatoes, squash, and green beans. and, uh, maybe cranberry sauce - I meant to get cranberries - I even had them on the list! - but realized when I got to the checkout yesterday that I did not have them. But then I remembered that I had some in the freezer! But then it turns out I have half a bag in the freezer :/ So we'll see - I could try and go to the store, only it is game day so the buses aren't running and everything's going to be busy, and it is also raining, etc. So... we'll see re: cranberries >.> I'll at least sauce up what I've got!

We also have a house guest coming in tonight - a friend of lukoni who is coming in to watch the football game and needed a place to crash. which means I need to decamp from the couch - the horror :V

Good thing I'm going to be spending so much time in the kitchen ^-^

I willlll stay in the habit of posting regularly, I really really will!

Yesterday was just an off day though.

For one thing, I woke up in Houston. I missed my connection in Charlotte because of delays leaving Detroit, and as a result I missed the shuttle back to College Station. I couldn't get on the internet reliably and missed my chance to crash with a friend due to a combination of bad internet, lack of comunication, and impatience. Which is to say that I caved and got a nice and cheap hotel room that had a free shuttle.

So yesterday I woke up in Houston. I caught the shuttle home at 9:15 or so - we actually left early since everyone scheduled to be aboard was there early, which was nice. So I got back home a little after eleven and then had to decide if I wanted to go into work. I ultimately decided yes, because I don't have much sick time left (I had to use sick time for my trip rather than vacation because I haven't been employed at A&M long enough to be able to use the time I've been accumulating :p). Also I had an appointment at the blood drive and wanted to keep that, and it was in my building, so... may as well?


...ETA: Oh it may have been less 'angry liberal ranting' and more talking about delicious food. I want to make garlic fingers again...
So I went in around noon, and gave blood, and went to work for like 3 hours. This was a good call in the end as I don't think I actually had enough sick leave to take a full day anyway. Bleh. At least I'll get some more back in February.

And then we heard that the university was being closed from 8pm to 10am because of the impending ice storm! Woohoo!

We had a gallery opening last night too, for the Ukio-e (Japanese historical prints) show. Attendance was pretty decent considering the weather, really, but I expect I can scam a leftover sammich for lunch today. There were snacks and a guy from the performance studies department playing Japanese flute (very cool to listen to) and then a guy who was talking about/performing parts of sadoo (the way of tea, or what is more commonly called the tea ceremony, which is a misleading name as there are many), which was really super cool! I went with my friend Mara, and we both had tea, which was sort of a mistake because it was after seven and we both have low caffeine tolerance. And powdered green tea (matcha) has hella caffeine :p It was worth it though! I had not actually had matcha tea - it is not my favourite taste, but the experience was still cool. Tea bowls are so pretty :3

After *that*, there was a profit shgare for the GLBT group on campus at Grub, the fancy burger bar. Also the ice storm had started. Fortunately mara is from PA, and has experience driving in questionable conditions and also good tires, so we were fine. Grub was PACKED. Apparently there were two profit shares and a lot of overconfident drivers ;) We got a table easily only because it was just the two of us. Because I'd had sammiches at the event, I only got a bourbon caramel vanilla milk shake (mmmmmmm) and sweet potato fries. Mara had their market burger (a seasonal/limited thing), which was a chicken fried hamburger patty on a handmade biscuit bun with grated cheddar and jalapeno cream gravy. It was delicious, I can report as she let me steal a bite.

Then I came home! I watched another Person of Interest with naryrising (we're up to episode 19 of season 2), and did some writing, and stayed up too late talking to my roommate. Or engaging in mutual angry liberal ranting, though I forget about what now ;)

I was about to reassure you all that I did not admit any men into my house, but that's a lie. The Crismen's had popped out to pick up a dinner order and drop Jola off to me when they got the Code Maroon tornado warning over their cell phones, and asked if they could step in for a moment while we figured out what was going on. No tornadoes were currently in progress - just hell crazy rain and wind - so they continued on their way and I said I'd let them know if I heard anything. Apparently there was a Tornado spotted in Snook, and I did call to tell them, but they were already almost home by then. I haven't heard about any damage though, thankfully.

We did get hail though - a couple of times, even. The pieces I saw were maybe an inch square, but someone else I reported egg-sized pieces D: Hopefully small eggs? I took a picture after it had stopped of some of the pieces that had blown in to my doorway after it stopped the first time:



There was flooding in town - and more severe outside, as well. My courtyard was pretty much full of water while it was falling. I saw a shot of one of the newly-renovated buildings on campus (The YMCA building) awash with about half a foot of water. The entrance is in a low spot though, down a flight of stairs, and in retrospect I`m not surprised it happened. I'm more surprised no one foresaw the issue, as rain-induced flooding shouldn't be a huge surprise. I hope everything is okay at work, though!

This morning I took Jola for a walk through the park, which is really the drainage basin for Wolf Pen Creek and the related creek systems that run through town. I should have brought my camera! Although it isn't too badly flooded still, the amphitheater is closed still. I assume the moat around it is still overflowing its banks. I am pretty sure most of the area was underwater during the worst of the rain - there is brush and other debris wrapped around the park benches, and even woven in to the rails of the footbridge that crosses a good seven feet or more above the normal creek level. I can normally walk underneath it easily without ducking, and the water level is usually below that, so I'm guessing. There were places on the walking path covered in inch-thick ripples of mud, and there was silt washed over everything. It would have been impressive to see last night I'm sure, but considering how the water was still running this morning, I think you;d have to be crazy to go near it! I'll take my camera when I take her out tonight and see if there is still any craziness worth recording.

For now I think I need to have some tea and breakfast and get on with my day - I have cleaning and research to do :)

It was raining and thundering when I got up this am. About the time I needed to leave to take my dog up to her playdate, it seemed to have lightened up.

THIS WAS A LIE D:

I didn't even make it to the walklight before the skys opened, the winds began to howl and all the flood of heaven was unleashed upon us @_@ That si some *serious* rain - its worse than some of the hurricane ends we've had. One of the most serious storms I've seen here D: I'm hardly even exaggerating D:

So anyway, even Jola, who normally loves the rain, bolted for home. Now I'm about to head out to work, but I'm not bringing my computer today, that's for sure. And I don't foresee making it to the gym either D:

I've got rain pants already, but this calls for serious gear, and I'm breaking out my plastic East German military surplus foulies D: And putting extra clothes in my bag D:

Yikes!