In which she gets out and about

[zeborah]

On the way to the water tanker I talked to someone looking for an ATM (she'd walked a long way, by the way she was limping and the fact that she hadn't realised Eastgate was closed; all I could do was let her know where a pharmacy was if she needed bandaids for blisters, and hope one of the shops that are open would give her cash out) and someone wanting money for chips and a burger (at least I hope so, because fatty food seems eminently healthy right now; anyway I had spare coins).

Came back with five litres of water that need boiling. (I also have six litres of bleachified water in the pantry from September but... I don't know, I guess I'm saving it for an emergency? Plus and also I have plenty of juice and milk to drink so the water is mostly for the cat and for washing.)

Phoned the friends I stayed with last week - they now have an adorable baby boy, mother and son doing well. Very much looking forward to meeting him next time I get to that side of town.

Builders coming to remove chimney tomorrow morning. Painters may start again next week (hopefully aftershocks will have died down enough not that the paint won't crack again.)

In the evening cyphomandra came by and we chatted and invited ourselves to dinner with a friend out New Brighton way (pausing by an ATM). It emerged that we'd actually met previously at a party at the friends-with-the-baby's place. Later on in the evening one of said new parents phoned and was duly weirded out that I was there. Christchurch is a small place...

It was dark on the way back, which was an adventure: the street lights were out for part of the journey, and the roads had acquired some unplanned judderbars which in places required driving on the wrong side of the road. We lifted our eyes unto the hills and found a huge dark section. And when we did get back to areas with street lights, so many of the houses had dark windows. Contrariwise, some others of the roads we went by had only been recently reopened, being brand-newly resealed since the quake. We also passed a brand new Orion electricity substation, and a generator. Absolutely incredible the amount of work that's been done in a short time.

cyphomandra also mentioned to me in passing "dry shampoo". My hair typically needs conditioner as well as regular shampoo (or it emulates Delenn's hair), but still this seems Worthy of Investigation or it'll start to emulate a baggie of french fries.

Comments

[rushthatspeaks]

In my experience dry shampoo is a different thing from ordinary and will leave your hair feeling odd, but odd-clean as opposed to odd-dirty. So it's a good thing to look into; but expect that it's not going to be identical to shower+shampoo+conditioner, even though it may be as good.

There is leave-in conditioner, too, which can usually be used without water.