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Two finals down, one to go - the big one being chem on Friday, which is my make-up final from this summer. That's my biggest worry, since I haven't done any actual chem homework and such all quarter. O BOI!

Also, this powerbook-chained-to-a-desk-and-monitor thing suxx0rs. But annathepiper has a deal through work where she can get an employee discount on a refurbished MacBook (refurb by Apple, full warranty, all that) so we're spending money we shouldn't and getting one. I wasn't sure about that with all the hospital bills coming in (and with making real progress on the Visa card paydown) but then this one locked up twice in a day, which it's never done before, and that's scary and sounds like it might be a logic board problem instead of just the backlight, which is one of the ways these screens fail. So, um, yeah. Poor powerbook, you have been to hell and back a couple of times but it's finally taken its toll, apparently.

I know, I know, no CWUs for a week and a half. I feel bad too. I have a bit I want to talk about regarding the Sea-Tac kerfuffle. However, finals week puts the Worst Webcomic Evar on hiatus, I guess. Good news, though: no finals week next week! Yay!

I still have flowerpics queued up. This one was from Shoreline campus:


Little Purple Surprises

Someone asked about this last year; Here's a nice graph that shows how much seasonal demand change there is in gasoline. This is one of the reasons why the price of gas changes so much within a year. Check out the units on the left side of that graph; it's in billions of miles driven per day. To wit: damn.

Anybody know much about thorium reactors? I'd like this article to be more or less accurate. Wikipedia is less sanguine about it than this article, but it still sounds like a technology to explore vigourously.

Monday's miles: 1.9
Tuesday's token: .4
Wednesday's miles: 1.4
Miles out of Hobbiton: 1445.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 987.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 533.3
Miles past Rauros Falls: 115.4
Miles to Isengard: 346.3

( Memes are stu00pid )

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National Weather Service has updated its windstorm warning:

THESE HIGH WINDS WILL CAUSE FALLING TREES AND POWER OUTAGES ARE LIKELY. THERE MAY BE DAMAGE TO SOME STRUCTURES. THERE IS A HAZARD FROM FLYING DEBRIS TONIGHT. PEOPLE SHOULD RUSH TO COMPLETION PREPARATION FOR HIGH WINDS...LOOSE OBJECTS AROUND THE YARD SHOULD BE SECURED...BOAT MOORINGS SHOULD BE CHECKED.

(Courtesy NOAA/NWS)

I guess I should take the strawberries in.

Also, KUOW had a guy from UW's atmospheric sciences department saying that if there are really large trees south of your bedroom, don't sleep there tonight - winds will be in large part from the south, blowing north, and trees will be coming down. Damn. (Murknet side note: our power lines? Immediately north of an assortment of large trees, quite tall enough to take them down.) 90mph+ gusts in the Straits, 50-60, maybe even 65 in the Sound, where we are. The best part is that there's a Seahawks football game tonight downtown. That should be hy-larious. 160 yard passes, ho!

So far, it's just very, very rainy, and dark enough that the streetlights have turned back on. There's no real wind yet, the rain's mostly vertical; that part's not supposed to get here until tonight.

Of course, given the nature of weather around here, it could all very well peter out to an assortment of light breezes, with no adventure at all.

Quite the autumn we're having, isn't it?

Complete power outage, Murkworks North

The main storm hasn't even gotten here and our power is out, as is all of northern... and there goes southern... Kenmore. I think Woodinville still has power but I'm not sure. We're on battery now but that doesn't last long, so we're shutting down. See you when lights come back.