Managing crises
Nov. 3rd, 2012 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleI'm working a 12 hour day here at the NY store, and another full day tomorrow. It's only our fourth day open, so things are slow. The store looks good, but there are lot projects to work on before we're ready for the grand opening.
My mom is apparently running a fever of 102 F (44 C) and has gone back to Holy Family Hospital. I'm starting to grasp that she's really ill, and that this won't be over soon. :(
New York is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. I'm staying with usakeh, and many roads in her town are still blocked off by fallen trees and severed power lines. There a long lines at every filling station. I fear this is just the first taste of our societal collapse as climate change accelerates, but it's great to see the way people here are rallying to meet the challenge. They're even excited to see a new comic book store. :)
I think I'm finally figuring out what I want from Grounded, so I guess all the driving around has been helpful.
I just saw a short video by a Mount Holyoke professor in which she discusses correcting a congenital vision problem she had, and how she trained her brain to correct it in her 40s.
The big election is on three days away. I hope the candidates I support win, but more than anything I fear that no matter who we elect, we won't do what we must to save ourselves. It's frustrating that years of Bible-thumper ranting and cynically poisonous Republican rhetoric have made scientifically valid warnings that we're on the brink of disaster sound like just more political bloviation.
My mom is apparently running a fever of 102 F (44 C) and has gone back to Holy Family Hospital. I'm starting to grasp that she's really ill, and that this won't be over soon. :(
New York is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. I'm staying with usakeh, and many roads in her town are still blocked off by fallen trees and severed power lines. There a long lines at every filling station. I fear this is just the first taste of our societal collapse as climate change accelerates, but it's great to see the way people here are rallying to meet the challenge. They're even excited to see a new comic book store. :)
I think I'm finally figuring out what I want from Grounded, so I guess all the driving around has been helpful.
I just saw a short video by a Mount Holyoke professor in which she discusses correcting a congenital vision problem she had, and how she trained her brain to correct it in her 40s.
The big election is on three days away. I hope the candidates I support win, but more than anything I fear that no matter who we elect, we won't do what we must to save ourselves. It's frustrating that years of Bible-thumper ranting and cynically poisonous Republican rhetoric have made scientifically valid warnings that we're on the brink of disaster sound like just more political bloviation.
