Sunday

[pbray]

The sticky, muggy weather continues with the added bonus of a tornado watch in effect until 3PM. Tornadoes being extremely rare in these parts, when I saw the warning I immediately double-checked it on another weather website, to confirm that it wasn't a mistake.

Been a busy weekend-- Friday night was First Friday and dinner at the Lost Dog with friends. Yesterday I worked on copyedits for the ur-bar project, and then went shopping. I spent OMG on a pair of shoes for the summer--but the moment I put them on they just felt right. It's hard to find any shoes that work with orthotics; harder still to find open-toed summer shoes that meet that criteria. But the cheap shoes I had bought from a chain store at the beginning of May had blistered my feet badly, so I knew I needed to do something.

I'm rationalizing that even though this pair cost 2x what I would normally consider my limit, they are fully repairable, and should last for years. And the shoe store's price was competitive with the best deal I could find on the internets. Still I suspect it will be a while before the sticker shock fades.

In the meantime, I've got errands to run, then co-conspirator Josh is heading over this afternoon so we can collate the copyedits. Fun!

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[jjschwabach.livejournal.com]

Oh, we gets tornadoes, all right. But they tend to be on the small side. We don't get the massive town destroyers of the great plains. The hills keep 'em from gathering up enough steam. We had one a couple of weeks ago. Caused a very localized power outage. The temperature here has dropped by about 20 degrees, so I think the danger has passed.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

We were upgraded from a watch to a warning, so I made sure I had my bike, wicker basket and small dog (stuffed), but, alas, nothing came of it.