rbandrews

Last Monday morning I woke up with a slightly scratchy throat. This progressed as it usually does, until by Wednesday I could no longer deny that I was sick, by Thursday I was miserable, and I spent most of Friday in bed. Then Saturday I started feeling a bit better and yesterday I was better still, and now today I'm basically fine.

Meanwhile. Thursday evening around 6, the sky went from a normal nice day to black as night over the course of about ten minutes. Then there was some light rain. Then there were sheets of sideways rain. Then we lost power. It didn't come back on until about 2 PM Friday; we spent Thursday night in a hotel (with me hacking and dripping and feeling miserable) and even if I hadn't been sick I couldn't have worked Friday, because it turns out that electricity plays a big role in most of what a programmer does.

We were lucky. A tornado touched down about a mile away, big sections of the city are still without power, and the official death toll is up to eight. There's a six-block "exclusion zone" set up downtown. It's sort of like a hurricane except it happened with no warning.

But here on the west side, in the upstairs office, things are normal and I feel fine. Browsing the internet and watching TV and mentally getting ready to go to BGG Spring on Wednesday.