So a week or so ago, Calhoun linked to the Weathernerds’ LJ. I’ve been reading the feed since. Today someone posted a link to these gorgeous photos of the inside of Katrina. So beautiful. So devastating. I had to post links.

I had an epiphany the night before last. I think Sadam did have WMD. You see, I think he had Stewie‘s See-N-Say weather machine and now it is in some child’s hands. Look at the hurricanes we’ve been having. A kid found it and has been playing with it and that is why we have had these hurricanes! Right?

Yes, I know. I’m totally losing it!

For those that don’t read my crafty section, I finished the first sleeve to Rogue, so Nhahh

I had to distort the color to get a decent picture. My camera is being extremely strange. If I want to get a really good picture, I have to set everything manually. If I wanted to go through that then I would just use the 35mm one!

I guess I’ll be adding a new camera to my wishlist for my birthday!

Well, I know what everyone was doing when we were going through the hurricanes. I feel so sorry for everyone and I know how terrible it will be.

I’ve been on a cleaning spree. I cleaned the litter box at 7am. I wanted to get it in the trash before the trash pickup. Thankfully, he came later than usual and I made it to the trash bins three times before he picked everything up. Go productivity!

I also cleaned out my purse. Here is where I admit my slight obsession with office supplies. In my purse I found:

4 Sharpie markers (1 of which was a double ended Sharpie)
1 Yellow Hilighter
6 Ball point pens (1 in red, the rest black)
2 Fancy gel roller ball pens
1 pencil
1 maglite flashlight
1 Swiss-tech utili-key (knife and screwdrivers)
1 Spyderco Ladybug (mini very sharp knife)
1 Leatherman Squirt (plier, screwdriver, knife, etc)
1 mini notebook
1 cell phone clip
1 camera

Then there is all of the regular crap, wallet, phone, pda, etc. I really need a smaller purse. Maybe then I won’t carry around so much crap!

Well, Katrina is currently a category 5. If there is anyone left in New Orleans during this, they’ll be dead or swimming with alligators when it is over.

It will probably take this storm to get people to realize they really need to prepare for hurricane season. As much as they think, “Oh it won’t come here” it will. So people, be prepared.

Last night I was getting irritated with my Shuffle. Yes, I’ve had it for a few days now and it has irritated me. Go figure. For some reason it was skipping some of the HP6 audio files that I had transferred over. It wasn’t set to random and I had them in the playlist. They even showed up in itunes when I plugged in. Alas, I retried three times to get them to play but they didn’t.

Then this morning after I woke up, I was hit with a flash of brilliance. File names. I looked at the file names on the shuffle drive and noticed some had the same name. Could that have been the culprit? Well, very possibly. I renamed the files with numbers only and now they are all there and playing. Weirdness.

Now, because I told Josh I would do this…

After showing him how I wore the shuffle last night while knitting (in my ponytail), he said “That’s so geeky. I love you.” I thought it was quite practical.

Oh and one other thing regarding the shuffle. As I had already heard, the headphones SUCK. After about five minutes I put on my little clie headphones. I need to find another solution for when I am not wearing the shuffle in my hair. I obviously can’t use the clie’s remote with this, so the length of the headphones’ cord is quite short. I wonder if Josh will let me get those Bose ones I saw. Not.

Guess what arrived yesterday? The shuffle. I was patient and waited until the battery was fully charged before loading anything on it. Of course I loaded the audio version of HP6 on it so I can listen while knitting. I also added The Killers on it. Josh was playing with it last night because instead of being on chapter 9, it was on one of The Killers songs.

The Fed Ex guy is so going to hate me on Monday. I’ve got four boxes coming. Three of them are full of batteries for the battery backups. Eek. The fourth package iis a new HD for me. Josh is concerned by the sound coming from my current one.

The UPS guy will be coming with a tiny bit lighter package consisting of a new tape drive. Unfortunately the one I had to return must have been unfixable because they refunded me the money for it. Therefore, we purchased another one, but from elsewhere. I had asked for an exchange but I guess they were out. PLEASE let this one come and work. PLEASE.

I started working on Rogue last night. I’m just trying to get a feel for the pattern, so I am doing the sleeve first. If I mess up, I won’t feel so bad about having to frog some of it or even all of it.

Hmm. Sounds like me.

I was getting an error when posting, so I thought I would test it by posting this.

Hello Katrina. We’re getting the little bands right now. We’re expected to have rain for the next few days.

In other news… How much do you think I would have to pay AJ to get him to wear an Oompa Loompa Halloween costume? I know he wants to be Obi-Wan or Robin (from Teen Titans), but come on, wouldn’t it be great if he was an Oompa Loompa?

I wonder how many guys want their girlfriends/wives to dress up as Wonder Woman?

Can you tell I got my buycostumes.com catalog today?

Josh and I lost a friend yesterday morning. It was very sudden and has been a reminder that anything can happen to any of us.

Aa’ menle nauva calen ar’ ta hwesta e’ ale’ quenle.
Namaarie John.