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Reset Fifty, Day Ten
Jul. 21st, 2024 06:02 amSaturday the drywall guy was here, but he was hammering away in other apartments, and I was here enduring acid reflux, but around eleven I had to lie down and ended up falling asleep. If drywall guy ever knocked on my door I didn't hear him, and when I woke up about half past three he was gone, and my closet and bathroom still have unfinished drywall. I got no messages, so I'm twisting in the wind again. I sometimes think I succeeded at making myself invisible when I wished for that as a kid, and now people fail to see me. Like when you're warned that if you make that face it might stay that way. Like be careful what you wish for. I've heard nothing about what the unfinished plumbing will come to either. All is in limbo.
Anyway. Late Saturday afternoon I heard one of the big tanker planes fly over, and a few minutes later another one. Checking the Intarwebz I found that a fire had started about half past four, in the coast range near Clear Lake. Less than an hour later it was already up to 300 acres. a third plane flew over quite a bit later, but it was getting near night by then so they were probably grounded after that. So far I haven't heard any planes this morning, but maybe they are flying out of a different airport closer to the fire. Overnight it grew to about 2,500 acres, and is about ten percent contained. I'm just hoping we don't get smoke from it.
Some quite bad news is that next Tuesday will not only hit 109 degrees, but the overnight low will then be 80. I think 80 is the highest low we've had in all the decades I've been in Buttehole county. The whole week will be nasty, and each forecast they put out gets a bit worse. I've only gotten the apartment down to 78 degrees today, and the window of opportunity for getting it lower will soon close. I'll be lucky if it hits 77. I don't know if drywall guy will be back today or not. He said Friday that he might work on Sunday. But I think perhaps they have decided to leave my drywall repair until the plumbers fix their oversight of not hooking up the outdoor faucet, and that would have to wait until Monday at the earliest. Crap. I could end up with the back door being opened and closed repeatedly on superhot Tuesday. I strongly disapprove of this reality. ::flips God/ess/physics the bird::
( Sunday Verse )
Anyway. Late Saturday afternoon I heard one of the big tanker planes fly over, and a few minutes later another one. Checking the Intarwebz I found that a fire had started about half past four, in the coast range near Clear Lake. Less than an hour later it was already up to 300 acres. a third plane flew over quite a bit later, but it was getting near night by then so they were probably grounded after that. So far I haven't heard any planes this morning, but maybe they are flying out of a different airport closer to the fire. Overnight it grew to about 2,500 acres, and is about ten percent contained. I'm just hoping we don't get smoke from it.
Some quite bad news is that next Tuesday will not only hit 109 degrees, but the overnight low will then be 80. I think 80 is the highest low we've had in all the decades I've been in Buttehole county. The whole week will be nasty, and each forecast they put out gets a bit worse. I've only gotten the apartment down to 78 degrees today, and the window of opportunity for getting it lower will soon close. I'll be lucky if it hits 77. I don't know if drywall guy will be back today or not. He said Friday that he might work on Sunday. But I think perhaps they have decided to leave my drywall repair until the plumbers fix their oversight of not hooking up the outdoor faucet, and that would have to wait until Monday at the earliest. Crap. I could end up with the back door being opened and closed repeatedly on superhot Tuesday. I strongly disapprove of this reality. ::flips God/ess/physics the bird::
( Sunday Verse )
