No Worries
Oct. 24th, 2007 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scarylullabiezOk, we're back at home. Everyone is fine and so is the house. The fire that was near my house has changed direction, it's moving East and back on itself. This map is very cool if you want to see exactly what's been going on in San Diego. The Harris Fire in the South was the one my family and I were worried about. We lived in the car on the beach for a couple days. See, we'd planned to just get out of town or possibly the state for the duration, but my brother in law is a dork and wouldn't come with us. He thought he was still going to work today. My sister wouldn't leave without him and my mother wouldn't leave without my sister, so we just drove out to the coast and slept in the cars and whatnot. (See moodtheme. I'm ridiculously excited to sleep in my bed tonight. I mean seriously, it's stupid how much I'm looking forward to that.)
Two things:
1) While we were at the beach people came by maybe three or four times a day to make sure we were alright and see if we needed anything. Sometimes they were parks and rec people, sometimes they were just good samaritans. We refused almost everything because we didn't need anything and we are very afraid of taking from someone who might actually need stuff (a principle my sister's asshole boyfriend [the one who has crashed my computer three separate times] does not share; he is, as I type, down in the Target parking lot with the Jamul evacuees getting free stuff), but some guy did convince us to take two bags of fresh baked pastries from the San Diego Culinary Institute. They were only accepting prepackaged food at the donation centers, and he just looked so sad that their pastries couldn't help out.
2) I live in a rift in the time-space continuum or something. For those of you who don't know, I live in Rancho San Diego, a place between El Cajon and Jamul. (And near a place called Rancho Winchester, but that's another story.) During the wildfires in 2003, we were evacuated and then promptly erased from the county's memory. They had very clear, thorough lists of Places That Are Safe and Places That Are Not Safe, and we were not on either list. When we called the evac hotline, they had no idea what location we were talking about. We waited a day and half before we just went back and checked it out and decided we could stay. This time around, they issued a mandatory evacuation for RSD, then retracted it saying the reverse 911 calls everyone had gotten had been a computer error. Then all the news channels and radio said that that had been the mistake and yes we did need to evacuate right now plzkthnx. Then the head of the evacuation shelter at the high school very close to my house and closer to the fire than we are called the news and said something along the lines of "I'm looking the fire marshal in the face right now and he is telling me that I do not have to move people, that we're fine and in a very defensible location, so STFU." And the radio dj's were like "Yeah, RSD, I know that place. I've been to a fruit stand out there. There's nothing out there, right?" That might have been an accurate description 20+ years ago when we moved in, but now there's not a drop of nothing to be found around here, it's all condos and shopping centers. It was frusterating. But don't go by my griping, other than this black hole we live in, it seems like the evacuations were handled extremely smoothly.
Anyway, we're all good, our house is all good, and it looks like it's going to stay that way. Also, I spent most of the time we were gone knitting and reading Terry Pratchett, and you know who Jared Padalecki should totally be cast as? Carrot Ironfoundersson. (The wikipedia article doesn't do him justice. Trust me, it would be awesome.)
Two things:
1) While we were at the beach people came by maybe three or four times a day to make sure we were alright and see if we needed anything. Sometimes they were parks and rec people, sometimes they were just good samaritans. We refused almost everything because we didn't need anything and we are very afraid of taking from someone who might actually need stuff (a principle my sister's asshole boyfriend [the one who has crashed my computer three separate times] does not share; he is, as I type, down in the Target parking lot with the Jamul evacuees getting free stuff), but some guy did convince us to take two bags of fresh baked pastries from the San Diego Culinary Institute. They were only accepting prepackaged food at the donation centers, and he just looked so sad that their pastries couldn't help out.
2) I live in a rift in the time-space continuum or something. For those of you who don't know, I live in Rancho San Diego, a place between El Cajon and Jamul. (And near a place called Rancho Winchester, but that's another story.) During the wildfires in 2003, we were evacuated and then promptly erased from the county's memory. They had very clear, thorough lists of Places That Are Safe and Places That Are Not Safe, and we were not on either list. When we called the evac hotline, they had no idea what location we were talking about. We waited a day and half before we just went back and checked it out and decided we could stay. This time around, they issued a mandatory evacuation for RSD, then retracted it saying the reverse 911 calls everyone had gotten had been a computer error. Then all the news channels and radio said that that had been the mistake and yes we did need to evacuate right now plzkthnx. Then the head of the evacuation shelter at the high school very close to my house and closer to the fire than we are called the news and said something along the lines of "I'm looking the fire marshal in the face right now and he is telling me that I do not have to move people, that we're fine and in a very defensible location, so STFU." And the radio dj's were like "Yeah, RSD, I know that place. I've been to a fruit stand out there. There's nothing out there, right?" That might have been an accurate description 20+ years ago when we moved in, but now there's not a drop of nothing to be found around here, it's all condos and shopping centers. It was frusterating. But don't go by my griping, other than this black hole we live in, it seems like the evacuations were handled extremely smoothly.
Anyway, we're all good, our house is all good, and it looks like it's going to stay that way. Also, I spent most of the time we were gone knitting and reading Terry Pratchett, and you know who Jared Padalecki should totally be cast as? Carrot Ironfoundersson. (The wikipedia article doesn't do him justice. Trust me, it would be awesome.)
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:11 am (UTC)*giggles and glees* Discworld = best thing ever. I would LOVE to see the Winchesters try to deal with the Luggage. *claps*
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-25 04:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-25 04:29 am (UTC)..... Jensen would make a hot Angua, doncha think? *big innocent eyes*
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:42 am (UTC)YESYESYESYESYESYESYES. Have you read this bondage (http://t-fic.livejournal.com/10803.html) stuff (http://felisblanco.livejournal.com/614144.html?style=mine)? It's delicious.
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:52 am (UTC)Christian Bale would be SEX as Vetinari. And since Vetinari is SEX that is a good thing. My other thought was for Johnny Depp to play him. But he's meant to be Crowley when they make Good Omens into a movie (which they were actually considering at one point with that casting, and Robin Williams as Azraphael and I'm wondering what happened to this damn film??!!?!?)
And I am bookmarking the bondage stuff for tomorrow when I wake up again.
Lol, BTW, now that the IMPORTANT STUFF has been discussed, I'm glad that joo and jours are okay. Here I was all ZOMG DISCWORLD and forgot to mention that. *hides*
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:06 am (UTC)LAWLZ I just commented at you about that! Sort of.
I'm picturing him sitting behind some opulent desk wearing that suit from Equilibrium.
A movie of Good Omens? *facepalm* How did I miss this?!?
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Date: 2007-10-25 08:32 pm (UTC)Duuuuuuuuude. You're making me want to go watch Equilibrium now, you know. *looks sadly at piles of homework* But HEY!! SPN TONIIIIIGHT!!!
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-25 04:31 am (UTC)Why couldn't it have been in NYC? I ask you! That's like a day's drive from here. *growls* I will very much keep this pencilled in on my mental calendar. EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I need Discworld icons. Why don't I have Discworld icons?
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-10-25 04:49 am (UTC)Dude, my mom would totally want to come along too. She loves the Watch as much as I do. Which is to an unhealthy degree. *smiles* WE NEED CITY WATCH SHIRTS.
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:34 am (UTC)Were they good pastries?
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:47 am (UTC)They ARE amazing pastries. We still have a whole bag left. There were like 25 huge pastries in each one, yo. Those culinary students don't mess around. I don't have a pastries icon, but here is my pasties one.
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:45 am (UTC)I've told you your sister's boyfriend is scum a million times already, haven't I?Well, here is a million and on.
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:28 am (UTC)Yay for camping on the beach, boo for the reason behind it. (the fires, that is)
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
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