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Aug. 18th, 2007 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katallison1. This story jolted the hell out of me; just like the bridge collapse, this happened maybe a mile from my house, but whereas with the bridge collapse I could have been there at the wrong moment, in this case had I not decided on a different place for my dinner-out with a friend last night, we would have been there. God almighty. I'm not solipsistic enough to read this as "The universe is sending me a message!", but I am enough of a story-making homo sapiens to create some meaning out of this, namely: Nowhere is safe. Nowhere is ever really safe, so you should just be where you want to be, even if it means moving to one of the most seismically active areas of the continent, because really? You're no safer here.
2. In more upbeat news, I am SMRT! I had checked out some books on CD from the library, with the intent of ripping/burning copies I could take with me in the car so I'd have something to listen to (oh, me and my evil piratical ways), and it suddenly struck me: I can just take the library copies of the CDs with me, listen to them en route, and then mail them back once I arrive in Seattle. Genius! Ha!
3. I had a most excellent lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lapillus, who then aided me materially by taking out the hard drives from the two old computers I'd been planning to haul along with me (on account of how I think there's stuff on there I wanted to keep and never pulled off when I replaced them with newer models, thinking instead "ho hum, I shall do this at some misty future point when I have TIME," ha) so that now I only need to bring the hard drives with me instead of hauling the great huge whacking boxen. In turn, I passed along to her a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff, including most of the condiments in my fridge and packets of frozen fruits and vegetables I'd never even opened. ("I am simple peasant woman! I trade you food for your skills with the magic boxes!")
2. In more upbeat news, I am SMRT! I had checked out some books on CD from the library, with the intent of ripping/burning copies I could take with me in the car so I'd have something to listen to (oh, me and my evil piratical ways), and it suddenly struck me: I can just take the library copies of the CDs with me, listen to them en route, and then mail them back once I arrive in Seattle. Genius! Ha!
3. I had a most excellent lunch with
lapillus, who then aided me materially by taking out the hard drives from the two old computers I'd been planning to haul along with me (on account of how I think there's stuff on there I wanted to keep and never pulled off when I replaced them with newer models, thinking instead "ho hum, I shall do this at some misty future point when I have TIME," ha) so that now I only need to bring the hard drives with me instead of hauling the great huge whacking boxen. In turn, I passed along to her a whole bunch of miscellaneous stuff, including most of the condiments in my fridge and packets of frozen fruits and vegetables I'd never even opened. ("I am simple peasant woman! I trade you food for your skills with the magic boxes!")![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-08-18 10:17 pm (UTC)