8 posts tagged “life”
Something happened in one of the downstairs apartments. I heard some shouting and then a thud or crash. Now there's a lot of police cars out front.
I came upon this while I was walking back to work from lunch.
I didn't actually see how it happened, because I was too far away, but I saw the person on the ground afterward. People were saying then that it was a child; I couldn't tell.
I'm still a little freaked out.
This is what it looks like from my living room window this morning:
I'm back in the apartment. Everything appears to be working.
No idea what things are like downtown, or whether I'll have work tomorrow.
(I can't seem to post from my PDA to Vox, because there's no way to check the mobile posting address from a mobile browser. That's really dumb design.)
It‘s now Sunday, and I'm in Silver Creek. When we left the apartment in Hamburg, we had no cable, no Internet access and very little water. There's a boil water warning in effect as far away as here since Saturday. Thing is, if I weren't out here I wouldn't know because I'd have no access to the information. I don't know how to find out whether the office will be open tomorrow by the time I'd have to get on the bus.
In the downtime, I've been watching Supernatural and Degrassi reruns and taking far too many OkCupid tests. In a few hours we'll head back and see what state the apartment's in. I'm more worried about people living in the city proper. I'm sure they're all right, but I'd like things to get back to normal.
How do a few downed trees do so much damage? Don't utilities and municipal governments have contingency plans for this sort of thing? (Yeah, stupid question.)
It was a slow weekend, as everyone was away for most of it. I managed to be moderately productive, getting a haircut (I'll take some pics later this week - it's about the length it was in my old LiveJournal icon) and cleaning the apartment a little (not enough); and I managed to be moderately unproductive, starting Final Fantasy 7 again, the Playstation version this time (can I finish it before FiFanTwelMo?), reading more of John Dies At the End (it reminds me a lot of Robb Sherwin's work) and not getting to the supermarket.
Note to self: if you're still bouncing off the walls three hours later, caffeine does have an effect on you. Or at least something does.
Life is pretty good, with the potential to get even better if I can figure out some details (stupid NFTA doesn't run the Hamburg buses late, and doesn't run anything from downtown to North Campus. It shouldn't be harder to get to UB than Fredonia).
There's a lot I'm looking forward to these days - Heroes premiere tomorrow (I'll probably do another SoC blog entry on it), other shows coming back (Lost! With Desmond!), games and movies - and potentially new friends to share all this with.
