11 August, 2004

(I recommend switching to the Gutenberg style to view this entry.)

First, this link: Weather Underground: Tropical view — Shows you the state of the tropical waters around the southern United States.

See what I see?

Tropical Storm Bonnie, and Hurricane Charley.
Now, this link: Weather Underground: 33611 (Tampa, FL) — Where I am. (For reference, I’m on the tiny little dangly thingy in the middle of the Bay there.)

The problem:
For the past several years, our area has been spared by many a Tropical Storm and Hurricane. These two, however, are beginning to tweak with us. As they get closer, we worry over them.
Bonnie doesn’t seem too bad, but Charley (strike map) has me a bit concerned.
If he stays over that warm water and only grazes Cuba, his chances of moving up a level or two, to Category 2 or Category 3, grows quickly.
Have a look at several computer projections of the storm, and notice the yellow path. Right now, even with where the storm is at, it has a chance of slipping onto the yellow path, which steers that ball of water and wind RIGHT OVER TAMPA BAY. If this is the case, Tampa Bay (the bay itself) will be shut down from all marine traffic for the first time in years. This… worries me. Somehow.

Before lj:forsolei: dropped me off at the bus station in Minneapolis, we stopped at this little restaurant called the Lotus (I think that was its name?). It’s a small Vietnamese cuisine restaurant that has good sweet and sour chicken. While we were sitting there, Solei was thumbing through a copy of Lavender (which I never got around to reading: while juggling everything, I placed it in my bag of food I left with, and something spilled all over it. :x), and ran across something referring to Bush.

I, not one for politics simply said,

Well, you know what my outlook on politics and the presidency is, yes? “www.johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com“

with Solei reciting the URL with me. This guy managed to hear us say that, and quite simply responded, “That is such a brilliant URL, isn’t it?”, with this grin on his face. I was thinking, “Holy cow, awesome.”

Well, I expanded my stick’s contents, though I should consider my space limit really soon…
I’ve gone down to ~2.5 MB of space available here, with the addition of an MP3 player.
I always need about 1 MB free on the stick for nPOP, because it keeps a list of emails with so many lines of text, for offline reading.
The MP3 player I’m using is called Billy, which I found at SheepFriends.com today. It’s very minimalistic, plays MP3, Vorbis, and Wave files, which basically covers what I have on 4 CDs right here (most of OCRemix :D).
The result is, I’m quite happy. I now have music while I sit here and do things, such as tweak my résumé.

Anyhow, I also found out what was corrupting my WhatPulse.bin file, as well: It doesn’t pulse when I close it, apparently, so the result is, when I switch computers, it thinks that I’m trying to cheat, and corrupts the bin. So, all I have to do is pulse before I go.

Hm… wonder how #voices and #GU are holding up without me…