Mixed Moss

Things to do while riding out a hurricane:
10) Two words: Buffy Marathon.
9) All-night D&D. Surf the storm surge
7) Read print-outs of all the stories you can find on the internet about the Galveston storm of 1900, deadliest hurricane in recorded history.
6) Have you friends who live in tiny window-heavy apartments or houses in flood […]

It is very weird to be talking about the chance of a huge storm ripping the roof off the house you are staying in when it’s a beautiful afternoon, 100 degrees out, blue sky, and the sun is shining.
The weather forecast for Friday for Houston reads: “91 degrees; Thunderstorms.” Thanks, I needed that information. […]

This is everyone’s dilemma. Rita was just upgraded to a Class 2 hurricane. Ordinarily, in Houston, you don’t worry unless it is a 3 or higher at landfall. Afterall, it slows down a lot when it hits land, and it would have to be a really big storm surge to reach all the way to […]

So there is now a hurricane headed for Houston. Read: headed for me. Woo hoo. OK, first test of my Rules for Living:
1) Never panic. Stop, breathe, think.
OK. Not panicking. Breathing. Thinking.
4) Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems.
So this could turn out to be only a little hurricane. After all […]

OK so I don’t know who that anonymous poster was but I would like to extend a mild admonishment: You may post whatever you like even when I am not gone! I just reserve the right to delete things if I think they are in poor taste. And believe me I have a liberal definition […]

Well, after much flap-doodle, as my dad calls the random flustered running-about and to-do that always seem to come with this sort of event, my fundraiser went off very well this afternoon. Many friends pitched in to help me, many more people pitched in to my fundraising efforts, and…I won’t tell anyone the total amount […]

For you in-town folks…I am holding a fundraising lunch on Sunday, September 8th at 1pm at the Rohs St. Cafe to help raise money so I can go to Houston. On the menu is Tex-Mex style chili (regular and vegetarian), salad, garlic bread, spaghetti, and dessert. Please bring a donation! Specific need is for $290.00; […]

In my usual spontaneous manner, I am picking up and leaving.
Next Thursday, I’m headed to Houston, TX for two weeks to work with suvivors of Hurrican Katrina who have been Evacuated from their homes. Gaah! This all happened, like, today, so it is very surreal to me yet.
I have to raise like $300 in the […]

I was posting a comment on Eric’s blog (as a joke? Maybe…I’m not sure), when suddenly, I said something really profound. It took me by surprise, so to speak. So, here it is.
You will accomplish all you set out to do in life– as soon as you decide that you do actually want to accomplish […]

Have I posted this song before? I think so. I don’t care, I’m posting it again. It’s my blog, and it fits. It speaks to failure as an inevitable part of the human experience. It explains why I hang out with a few of the people I hang out with. And it explains why the […]