Change is good Made some badly needed updates to the layout and stuff. Let me know what you think.
I'm not sure about the rule seperating the title and text... it looked stupid going all the way across the page, but I'm not sure how much better it looks going halfway.
New URL... for now. I'm tired of not having a blog (or at least, you know, one that is accessible and stuff).
So here's this, a temporary mirror until such time as my domain is permanently up and running.
As an interesting side note, I'm not dead. Although I had an interesting tornado experiance today, wherein a tornado apparently went right over my head while I played (what else?) D&D. When we heard the change in wind and rain, we decided it *might* be a good idea to check the weather... at which time there was a loud crack (the tornado taking out the power lines) and, of course, no electricity. About 2 minutes later, the sirens went off (you know, after it was all over).
So yeah, we're all safe and fine now, no serious damage to us or our stuff, although parts of campus got it pretty good. (Nothing destroyed, but some damage). And we have power back. Which is happy.
But, it is 2am, and I have classes tomorrow... and I still have to grade labs.
So I've been reading all this stuff about the coast, and specifically New Orleans, in the news. Some of it is optimistic (Mardi Gras might hapen in a very scaled down way this spring), some of it isn't (city will never be the same, etc.). And most of it is pretty sad.
But someone said something that really shocked me the other day. They said that it was about time that New Orleans was modernized a bit, and this might just force them to do that.
Modernize? New Orleans? Why? A "modern" New Orleans would be boring... it would be just like every other big city in the US. I always thought that New Orleans was an odd mix of modern and not modern... high tech fancy hotels and casinos, old buildings and cemetaries and trees... I don't know what would be left if you "modernized" the city.
William's new house is still standing. And he made it to the coast safely.
And that's the only good news I have really.
Gas is in short supply here. Not because its really in short supply, but because when the prices started rising everyone panicked, and bought huge amounts of gas. Now gas is god-awful expensive, and will be more so by the time the gas trucks get here.
People are stupid.
I, however, have (fairly) new tennis shoes and live like, a mile from Butler Hall. So unless I want to go to Walmart or Kroger, I'm probably ok. The only things we need right now are milk and bread, and i know we won't be able to buy those for like, a week anyway (people made a run on those, too). As long as we don't run out of pasta, I think Chad and I will survive (we sent all our soup and stuff with William).
The French Quarter is on fire. Which is weird, since it's also flooded. I know stuff like that happens, but it boggles my mind.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
