In which we continue
Feb. 28th, 2011 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zeborahThe aftershocks were frequent and nerve-jolting today, and I've been getting that feeling where the ground is constantly swaying under me.
Random quotes:
"Due to increased demand and the impact on water supplies, the availability of bread is limited across the South Island." (Countdown)
"Planning is underway for the resumption of passenger transport services in Christchurch. No date is set yet." (Canterbury Earthquake)
"That bridge was not open to traffic, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to drive on it anyway, because it was being propped up by bricks." (keieeeye)
Image from just after the quake (viewed from the hills)
From Twitter:
Lego character explores #eqnz damage near home http://stfn.co/ejm14j
Someone else builds things with sand http://yfrog.com/gy266isj
Someone points out the weirdness that we have "Internet but no drinkable tap water".
The rescue folk are going to get up to 3 seconds warning of more distant aftershocks. Unlike Ken Ring's snakeoil (see a debunking of his weather predictions; his earthquake predictions are just as much rubbish and a thousand times more vile) this actually works -- I've heard of a similar system just starting to be used in Japan, and an old xkcd cartoon illustrates the general method.
Work is slowly tentatively starting again sort of - got an email asking for people who can work to let their managers know. The libraries themselves aren't open yet, would be working from another building. I've emailed that I haven't got transport to get there but could (and would like to) work from home (which they've said is an option too) -- at least in short bursts, because the idea of being trapped at the laptop for a full workday is a bit terrifying, since I find myself needing to get up and wander, or doze off for a while, or whatever, at entirely unpredictable intervals. (I've been "steadily" reading Pride and Prejudice since Wednesday and haven't even reached Darcy's proposal yet, if that gives any idea of my current powers of concentration.) I suspect the full-workday model isn't what they need at the moment anyway though.
Oh, got sufficient cope to get hold of 'my' builder who at first sounded like he wouldn't be able to come for a week (going out of town mid-tomorrow) but when I described the chimney a bit more he said he and (son/son-in-law?) will come in the morning to have a look.
Putting in a new EQC claim is still on the to-do list. I've got three months so there's really no rush.
My most major achievement is continuing to eat a balanced and, I think today a sufficient, diet.
Ironically my asthma is almost completely improved since I got all my medicine. (Almost.) Note that I'm not complaining.
Bedtime; and if I'm fated to wake early tomorrow I'll try making biscuits for the builder.
Random quotes:
"Due to increased demand and the impact on water supplies, the availability of bread is limited across the South Island." (Countdown)
"Planning is underway for the resumption of passenger transport services in Christchurch. No date is set yet." (Canterbury Earthquake)
"That bridge was not open to traffic, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to drive on it anyway, because it was being propped up by bricks." (keieeeye)
Image from just after the quake (viewed from the hills)
From Twitter:
Lego character explores #eqnz damage near home http://stfn.co/ejm14j
Someone else builds things with sand http://yfrog.com/gy266isj
Someone points out the weirdness that we have "Internet but no drinkable tap water".
The rescue folk are going to get up to 3 seconds warning of more distant aftershocks. Unlike Ken Ring's snakeoil (see a debunking of his weather predictions; his earthquake predictions are just as much rubbish and a thousand times more vile) this actually works -- I've heard of a similar system just starting to be used in Japan, and an old xkcd cartoon illustrates the general method.
Work is slowly tentatively starting again sort of - got an email asking for people who can work to let their managers know. The libraries themselves aren't open yet, would be working from another building. I've emailed that I haven't got transport to get there but could (and would like to) work from home (which they've said is an option too) -- at least in short bursts, because the idea of being trapped at the laptop for a full workday is a bit terrifying, since I find myself needing to get up and wander, or doze off for a while, or whatever, at entirely unpredictable intervals. (I've been "steadily" reading Pride and Prejudice since Wednesday and haven't even reached Darcy's proposal yet, if that gives any idea of my current powers of concentration.) I suspect the full-workday model isn't what they need at the moment anyway though.
Oh, got sufficient cope to get hold of 'my' builder who at first sounded like he wouldn't be able to come for a week (going out of town mid-tomorrow) but when I described the chimney a bit more he said he and (son/son-in-law?) will come in the morning to have a look.
Putting in a new EQC claim is still on the to-do list. I've got three months so there's really no rush.
My most major achievement is continuing to eat a balanced and, I think today a sufficient, diet.
Ironically my asthma is almost completely improved since I got all my medicine. (Almost.) Note that I'm not complaining.
Bedtime; and if I'm fated to wake early tomorrow I'll try making biscuits for the builder.
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Date: 2011-02-28 08:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-28 01:59 pm (UTC)I am also relieved to know that Boots is surviving too.
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