Surviving

[aggienaut]

   So New Orleans has been completely destroyed. My best friend Aaron Davis and Grear Aunt Iseult live there (well in neighbouring Biloxi and Mandelburg respectively).
   Iseult is 93 and still has a thick Irish accent despite having lived in Mandelburg for the past fifty or so years. Apparently she got a ride out of town before the hurricane and returned to find her house in pretty good shape, on account of it being built on stilts and thusly avoiding being flooded. Craftiness.

   Haven't heard from Aaron yet, but I'm sure he was right in the middle of it. And I'm sure he was alright. Petty Officer 3rd Class (or something) Davis is in the coast guard you see, so I don't expect to hear from him until he's done doing some serious lifesaving. Here is a picture of him sitting on $80 million worth of cocaine.

   Local Diedrichs urchins Kyle and Matt Christie apparently are planning on volunteering with Red Cross and getting shipped to the New Orleans area to help in shelters.


   Computers are still crashed here. This computer is ancient and for unknown reasons will usually not get an instant messenger connection, but does sometimes randomly. Thing won't play music but has a CD Burner so I resorted to burning the few songs I could find onto a CD and playing it on a nearby stereo.

   Recently halved my workweek down to 40 hours a week.


Picture of the Day

   200 Pictures Ago: Prior Light - Kells Priory, County of Kilkenny, Ireland. No longer among the most recent 200 viewable pictures on flickr.


Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Bulgarian Steel - Mike the Horrible Human (MtHH) acts dumb. At the beginning of this summer he was behaving himself pretty well but then he found out I'm planning on going to law school and has decided to hate on me again. But he lives under a bridge so its pretty hard to take him seriously. In unrelated news, Elena, the Bulgarian, is back and works at Harbour House now.
   Year Ago Today: Being Sociable - "Has Jeff Whetstone seduced anyone at Wild Rivers THIS year? Some research may be necessary" I didn't end up doing the research. But hey anyone's golden as long as they've never dated the pool tech.

Comments

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

No problem. ;)

Thanks again for getting me tickets to WR the other day.

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

Why the fuck wouldn't you build your house on stilts in a hurricane area? How much can it possibly cost extra compared to the loss of your entire house?

your mom's on stilts

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

I had a sentence in the entry I deleted as possibly too saucy that ran along the lines of "how not to be an idiot: (1) if you're building a house in an area subject to flooding build it on stilts (2) for god's sake evacuate when the hurricane comes and they tell you to"

Re: your mom's on stilts

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

Haha, aw...

Well, I guess a lot of people there are poor, etc., but how the fuck did they build houses to begin with?

Re: your mom's on stilts

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yeah I figure, there's no way if they could afford to pay rent or exist at all they could afford to get out of there.

[rote.livejournal.com]

Wait, wait.. are you going to be attending school too?

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes I am.