• Sorry Charley

    So far, so good. The hurricane came ashore ahead of schedule, and well south of here. While we’re still forecast to get hurricane force winds here, it won’t be category three or four strength winds.

    Me? I’ll take that.
    —-sittTENDED BODY:

  • Battery run

    My office is empty, or nearly so. Here’s a scene from my office earlier this morning,

    “Yeah, they’re expecting it to be a category two storm by the time it makes its forecasted landfall in the Tampa Bay area sometime tomorrow afternoon”

    “Wait a minute; you’re saying there’s a hurricane?”

    The office emptied out faster than you could say “preparedness.”

    By the way, if you are trying to access this site over the next couple of days and notice it isn’t there, we may be suffering technical difficulties due to Hurricane Charley.

    If the storm appears to be coming close tomorrow morning, I’ll likely be shutting down my server and posting a back-up of this blog at http://homepage.mac.com/johnkauffman/. (Right now there’s just a redirection page at this address which sends you my server at home.) In the mean time, wish us luck.

  • The calm before the tropical weather advisory

    I really wish it would just rain already. It’s been three weeks since I last rode my bike to work. We’ve had three weeks of high rain probabilities and sporadic engagements that require my car during the day. Yet the last several days have been mostly sunny, and it’s driving me bonkers. The sun has been shining in my window all morning, uninterrupted, mocking me.

    Don’t you just hate it when celestial bodies mock you?

    Hope is not lost though. Weather professionals across the broadcast spectrum are predicting some tropical weather in the next couple of days. With any luck I’ll be sitting in front of a window on Friday watching a torrential down pour; flush with wisdom knowing it was a good day not to be on a bike. Until then I think I’ll just draw the shades and pretend that I didn’t outsmart myself again today.