Partying like it's 1499!

Maybe I've got the year wrong, but my point is it's the 21st century and I'm supposed to have electricity. For the past two days we've had power outages that have lasted for aroun 7 or 8 hours...and we're being told this will go on for the next couple of weeks. It wouldn't be as bad if the power came on before the lights went out but nooooo...it's off from about 2pm til almost 10pm....grrr...anyway, I'm going to go get my homework done before the power goes out again.

Peace out ya'll !

Chris

Drizzles and breezes

Well, It's Saturday, and the whole group of us around the neighborhood stayed up most of last night waiting for the big storm to hit. A lot of boarded windows and unplugged electrical stuff and all we got was a little bit of wind and a steady drizzlling. Nothing worse than any other rainstorm we've gotten...except this time we got less rain. Our power didn't even go out in our neighborhood. Pwer losses were reported but not as much as expected. Greatly disappointed am I.

Good things out of this though... I got to see my mom for a little while; Mom got to have a few days off in a row; our pantry and fridge is full of food and drink again (at least for a while);

More later when I get around to it...Be safe, all ya'll.

Chris

hurricane....whatever....blah.

Well Mom got the word to evacuate cause hurricane 'rita is heading her way, so she's finally got some time off and is coming up for a visit. Well it was found out a little while ago that our area is under voluntary evacuation, which can probably be translated into imminent evacuation. Blah. Me, Darbi, some friends from next block over, and my mom will probably be heading up the road a bit for the weekend since the reciept of this information. I'm pissed. I'd rather wade through feet upon feet of water and be miserable than deal with the traffic on the interstate. It took someone we know an hour and a half to go ten miles. Wow.

Mom's taking the trip at night....HOPEFULLY the traffic is somewhat lighter and not so bad all the way up from her house. Also I hope it's not so bad if we take the trip tomorrow (or Friday) because VW's don't do well with idleing through traffic for hours at a time, what with being air-cooled and all. (Air-cooled engine) + (moving very slowly through hot Texas weather) = (Not Good At All)

Talk at ya'll later when I get back...if my computer's still in usable condition...and the phone lines are still up..and we still have electricity...and, well, you get the picture.

Enjoy ya'll's weekend and stuff !

Chris

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I kinda of feel like crap. Not physically or anything. But I haven't returned some phone calls that I should. And not for any good reason. I found out via livejournal, that Bean was running a fever, and a really high fever at that. It peaked at 103 but dropped. Also Luci's purse was stolen from her car. The only thing she recovered was her phone, however, the screen was apparently broken. Someone found it at a store and found the home number to contact her. So aside from drawing and sewing this weekend, I was worried about Bean and Toni. But did I call? No. I'm not sure why I didn't...it's not because I was too busy, or not thinking about it. I just didn't.

So, to whom it may concern, I'm sorry...

Now I'm off to finish mowing the lawn short and hoping the heat kills the grass.

Hope everyone made it through their weekend alive.


--Chris

Stuuufff......

So I've got three computers:

-----One good and working desktop as my main computer - this one I'm on now and has all my music and pictures and internet access

-----One old but working desktop - it uses a text based Linux operating system that fits on and is run from a 1.44 Mb floppy disk. This will be for learning programming or whatever.

-----One old and not quite at all working laptop - this used to my mom's she bought 5 or 6 years ago. It needs a new power adapter, the keyboard has a few keys that do not work, and I'm not sure if the battery is still good or not. Plus, it has no operating system...I can't use the restore disk for some reason, and can't format it for the same cryptic reason. And I can't do ANYTHING to it until I get an adapter. To get this one working would just be neat.


On another subject...Molly the van had a fuel leak. Luckily it was just that the end of the hose connecting to the tank was kinda cracked. Replaced that length of hose and everything seems to be peachy again. And not nearly so gasoline-smelly everywhere. Woo!


The time for the Texas Renaissance Festival is again drawing neigh, and I'll be working at Bald Mountain hat shop. Or at least at one of their hat shops...I hear there will be several booths around the fairgrounds. If anyone from the Houston area, or anywhere for that matter, is going to be at TRF, feel free to come look for me and say "Hi, Chris! I read your blog." I think it would be neat to meet some of the strangers that read my blog (if there are any).

And to all out there that read this blog and that I actually know, I love you all and am glad to know you. Even if communication is infrequent and scarce, I am glad that are or have been part of my life.

Came across a neat print this weekend too....had a little flower painted in watercolour (I guess) and beside the flower was printed " I walk, I fall, I get up........Meanwhile I keep dancing." Something about it just makes me smile and feel all goofy.

That's it for now...I've got one more paragraph to type on my sociology paper for tomorrow. I'll talk at you all later on.

With the greatest love possible,
Chris