Last Thursday morning, while I was taking out the garbage, a news chopper was hovering above, taking film of the house at the end of the next block. It had been flooded out by a creek. I live about 30 ft above the level of the creek and the soil around the house is rather gravelly, so there's never a problem with water with me.
Good to hear!
Damelon wrote:I can see you seem to be having a peaceful time then, Aliantha, now that the kids are away.
And clearly MagickMaker comes by it honestly. She's signed up for 18 hours of coursework; she wants to do tech theater stuff for the fall play, which would be another 2 hours of credit; she wants to join the volleyball club, and one of Batty's friends is talking to her about lacrosse; and she was just on the phone complaining to me that she doesn't think her work-study job will give her enough hours. Her senior year in high school was JUST LIKE THIS. It's no wonder I slept for 12 hours after I dropped her off at college!
EZ Board Survivor
"Dreaming isn't good for you unless you do the things it tells you to." -- Three Dog Night (via the GI)
Beorn missed the bus home again, Hyperception has our only working vehicle and can't get out of work until 6:00, I have no cash, my check card Master Card didn't work the last time I tried to use it, and the school will leave Beorn alone after 4:00, 2 minutes from now...
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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