In which she can has bus!

[zeborah]

Tomorrow, anyway, barring further Acts of God. (Dear God: You know I love you, right?) I am so excite! Most of the buses on this side of town won't be running but the Orbiter will be, almost from where I'd normally get it, and will take me to university and those other suburbs which are like a peacezone.

In the meantime I got a phone call from work to ask for a) directions for quickly finding some important equipment in our building, and b) if I can do some telecommuting, which I can, yay internet. In fact, with builders noisily knocking down my chimney brick by brick it'll be just like working in the familiar construction zone that's characteristic of the last year or two of our building there. :-)

Parts of the Port Hills are 40cm taller than they used to be.

And it is windy outside, and the dust from the liquefaction is blowing all over the place. Apparently millions of dust masks are being brought into Christchurch.

The choir mailing list is attempting to organise keeping-calm-and-carrying-on but the bus service isn't that much back to normal. I've unexpectantly suggested trying for earlier in the day, maybe a weekend, but otherwise will just have to skip a few weeks.

Unless I'm missing something, telecommuting appears to be hurry-up-and-wait-but-actually-don't-bother-hurrying-either at present. I'm gonna read more Pride and Prejudice instead and if I get sufficiently bored I'll try locating that supermarket I saw on the map.

For those who want to help; and I forgot to mention that Haiti is still in a far worse state than we are, so, FWIW.

Comments

[ajk]

Glad that things are improving.

No Christchurch news here recently, which also is a sign that things are improving :-)

[julesjones]

On the "Dear God..." thing -- I was in Coventry for a con this weekend. I had somehow failed to grasp that the cathedral was rebuilt *next* to the ruins after the war and the ruins preserved as a memorial, so was rather shaken after a few minutes in the ruins. Not least because I kept thinking of that footage of the Christchurch cathedral. I wandered into the new building to... well, meditate more than pray, and found that the prayer area was equipped with votive candles and a box for prayer requests, both of which I promptly used on behalf of you and your family and your city. Prayer was probably read at the Saturday evening service.

I'm not normally into candles, but what with one thing and another there have been half a dozen in the last month, which is more than I usually get through in a couple of years. :-(

[zeborah]

I can imagine that being very unnerving. I'm not sure I want to see our cathedral in person; photos are bad enough. (I was watching one video, thinking, "Why is the camera focusing there? There's nothing special th-- Oh. That's where the Cathedral's spire used to be. Right.")

Thank you for the prayer!

[aquaeri]

I'm glad you've got your bus back! Every little bit helps.