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September 05, 2008

we are home!

Just because I haven't posted any car pictures lately,
here's a national guard convoy heading south on I-55 that
we passed on the way home.

Drove home yesterday, mostly uneventful, picked up Clay's
car at my dad's parents house and fixed some more server
stuff. We had power when we got back, and the cable came
on this afternoon.

My mom's parents that live in Mathews, LA-Lafourche Parish
made out alright, no power, just missing shingles and their
shed disappeared. I haven't heard about most of my cousins
yet but a lot of them live in Thibodaux so they should be okay.
Don't know anything about the extended cajun-italian family's
situation yet - pretty much all of them live in Lafourche or
Terrebonne somewhere. Hoping everyone came out ok.

(ps: pictures!)

candice at 20:07 | link | Comments (2)

September 03, 2008

update - gustav

I have been so busy and stressed that I have not even
been taking pictures. Clay has been doing some blogging
here and there; I have been working whenever I have a
signal on this satellite thing at the old hunting lodge
we are staying in. Satellite internet latency is even
worse than advertised.

Today we went into town where I had been offered an
office by one of the family friends and I worked for
six or seven hours putting our hosting business online
at its backup location; hours of restoring backups and
arguing with domain hosting, but the users are now
able to log in and get work done.

Still in North MS; can't come home unless I can be sure
that all of the business-online work is done. We're going
to stay on colo until they get grid power back at the
house. The T1 there was out Tuesday so dad was running
the business off his iPhone.

We heard today from a friend that passed by our house that
it looked fine, he talked to one of our neighbors and found
out that our block has no power yet.

I am off to go join dear sleeping boyfriend and dog in
bed in this little cabin of ours. Hope to come home soon.

(also. forgot to put twitter info in feed. here.)

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August 30, 2008

fyi - gustav

Clay and I are heading north tonight to somewhere in MS.
This site should stay up as it is in florida, though my
egobsd mail will not necessarily be going to blackberry
if main goes down. email: candice0@gmail.com or I should
be twitter-reachable I hope as well. My phone # has not
changed.

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August 29, 2008

three years

Yesterday a bunch of us went out for my mom's birthday,
and spent half of the dinner discussing plans. Three
years ago we spent the day stockpiling things and boarding
up their house.

I wish to honor the dead, and have hope for the living.

Really nothing else to say. Moment of silence, please?

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August 24, 2008

forgotten cranes

Went to Rising Tide. Forgot to bring cranes or paper to make
new ones, but fortunately someone had a huge one by the signup
table. Took a few pictures.

School tomorrow, if it doesn't get rained out...

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August 20, 2008

old accord

This, somehow, is a 1981 accord with no sign of rice or decay.
I didn't get time to post it before, and here are its pictures.

Getting ready for school this year. Looks like it is possible
to graduate end of next year (december, not may) if I can afford
to not work enough to take the classes. School is much easier
with no snow.

music: Prototypes...

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August 10, 2008

wedding pie

So, my sister Julie got married this past Friday on the outskirts
of Boston. It was a very pretty, small ceremony, in a very big
church, and a nice reception at a historic tavern/barn.

And instead of cake, Julie and Mike decided to have pie! The
"wedding pie" they are cutting there is a boston cream pie.

I have never seen Julie happier and I wish them the best.
Hoping that they last as well as our grandparents have.

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