Here's Sally

 Hurricane Sally is here.

 

Looks like Macon is getting dumped on at the moment.  I suspect there will be some flash flooding there.

The areas downstream will probably flood, too, because water flows downhill, so the coastal plain gets both the rain from the storm and the rain runoff from upstream.

As for me, though, I'm fine.  Just the usual heavy rain.  No winds powerful enough to do any damage.  The northern part of the state is pretty immune from hurricane damage due to being so far inland and at a higher elevation.  By the time a storm gets here, it's already lost a lot of energy.  So don't worry about me.  Worst case scenario is a few low-lying areas experience flash-flooding, and I'm not in a low-lying area.

Best wishes, though, to everyone affected.  Y'all stay as safe as you can, and watch out for each other.

The sandcrawler cometh

Okay, so it's not actually a Jawa sandcrawler.  But it looks like one.

My street is in the process of being resurfaced, and one of the construction vehicles is a tracked thing that looks like it belongs in the Tatooine desert.  Four tracks, just like a sandcrawler.  When it rumbles past, the room shakes.

I think they're just fixing the sunken-in parts of the road for now.  From what I hear, the plan is that they'll repave the whole thing next week, presumably after the hurricane blows through.

Speaking of the weather, it's seventy-one degrees right now, and the projected high for the rest of the week is only seventy-five.  It feels almost chilly.

In other news, I started a new story recently.  I was stuck in neutral with book 5 of Wheel of Fire, and I needed something to jump-start my production.  So I started a new story.  We'll see what happens.

Even the tool boxes?

Thanks to the lockdowns and factories being shut down or on limited shifts, stuff has become scarce.  I'm browsing for a tool box, and most of the items I've looked at on Amazon are only available from third-party sellers.

So I'm browsing Walmart's site now.  It looks like they might have something that suits my needs, though I'd have to actually go in person to the local store to get it.

So, yeah... even the tool box supply has run low.  Way to go, 2020.  You win again.

Migration has begun

I've been seeing a swarm of hummingbirds around the feeders lately.  They're putting on fat for the long trip over the Gulf of Mexico, and that makes them frantic and competitive.  But they've also all been female.  I haven't seen any males in a few days.

So I guess the males are gone.  It's typical for the males to leave first and the females to follow about a week later.  Last year, the males left in early August, much sooner than usual, and the females stuck around an extra month.  It'll be interesting to see how long the females stick around this year.

Old version was better

Blogger has decided to force us all to use its new interface.  I don't like the new interface.  I prefer the old one.

*sigh*

This isn't the first web site to do this, of course.  It happens all the time.  Using the internet means constantly having to throw out some of your knowledge and start from scratch.

Such is just "the times," I guess, the inevitable consequence of living in this century.

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Background music

I usually don't write with music in the background.  Too distracting.  Sometimes, though, it works for me, so long as there aren't any lyrics tempting me to sing along.  At the moment, I'm writing and listening to music from The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.  Great stuff.