Saturday, June 24, 2006

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A bar 'menu' found by K Jane in New Orleans...

Gotta love it!

Volunteering in New Orleans


Waing for deployment...
Originally uploaded by ALA TechSource.
Here we are at the ALA Annual Conference yesterday, waiting to head out on our buses to volunteer with the New Orleans Public Library. I'm just right of the photo's center, with my black bag strap across my yellow shirt...

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

Blue skies after Alberto





After a noisy, windy, rainy night, we woke up to blue skies this morning. The clouds are still a weird brownish-grey color, and there's still a lot of wind, but the sky is blue. Weird.

Went down to Pass-a-Grille beach with Courtney this morning. The water was covering much of what is normally beach, and waves were crashing all over (not our usual bathtub Gulf at all). What sand wasn't under water was covered in washed-up shells. Found much nicer shells than usual.

Monday, June 12, 2006

On the eve of Alberto



















So Alberto is on its way. Our sky looks nasty and ominous. The hours of rain finally stopped late this afternoon, but the world still has that super-silent sense about it as everyone waits for the worst still to come. I would have thought after watching the horrible hurricane season last year I would be more inclined to run around preparing. Instead I find myself grumpily trying to ignore the whole business. Actually, everyone I know seems grumpy right now. Maybe people haven't emotionally recovered enough from last year to rationally accept another active season. I'm glued to my computer but avoiding weather reports, F is making a cake and picking lichees off the neighbor's tree before the wind gets them, and our two houseguests are both napping. We're all being argumentative and almost stepping on each other. Four people and three dogs (Bandit and the two we're dogsitting) cooped up in a small house seems to be overkill.

That Amsterdam museum trip might still be on...

Your Inner European is Dutch!

Open minded and tolerant.
You're up for just about anything.