Weird Sky Colours

[patgund]

....like blue.

Still smells smoky, and everything tastes like a bad BBQ potato chip. However, there are patches of blue sky overhead, and signs that things *might* be getting back to normal. We can hope.

Hopefully Julian is coming though it's fire danger.

blackflag669 has checked in, and her and ismarc are okay, and hopefully should be able to return to their house here in Lakeside soon.

Saturn of El Cajon is open, and my car should be finished today. Work has been closed for it's third day in a row now. Unknown if they'll pay us for those three days closed, or even if I'll get paid on time this friday. (Hope so, sunday is Little Bit's 2nd birthday)

(And yes presenze, we're all sending the smoke deliberately towards Las Vegas. As we speak, thousands of giant fans are set up in Victorville and Barstow, drawing all the smoke from the Grand Prix-Old fires in San Bernardino and sending it your way. You're welcome. ;-) )

Comments

[fezabel.livejournal.com]

Happy early birthday wishes to Little Bit! And I'm very glad you and everyone else is okay.

BBQ?

[ophy.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't see across the street past Circus Circus for all the smoke, or past the LV Hilton on the other side of my building.

Scary thing is that the winds (which are supposed to get up to 50MPH for the next two days) haven't even started blowing yet....

institutional largesse which may or may not be useful

[kyril.livejournal.com]

For victims of the California wildfires, SBC is offering free voicemail and call forwarding (presumably to their customers), and free local calls at an area near QualComm Stadium.

The IRS is apparently topping this bit of largesse by allowing extensions on filing (and possibly even on paying!) for victims. (This might have been only/primarily businesses, though, probably only to those who have to file/pay quarterly/year-round.)

Cynical Disclaimer and Plug: I work for SBC. SBC thinks all employees should pretend to be sales folks. So if you decide to sign up for anything with SBC in the future, please mention a "referral code", such as KR3948, so they can keep their delusions and somebody can get credit. Thanks.

Re: institutional largesse which may or may not be useful

[patgund.livejournal.com]

Cynical Disclaimer and Plug: I work for SBC. SBC thinks all employees should pretend to be sales folks. So if you decide to sign up for anything with SBC in the future, please mention a "referral code", such as KR3948, so they can keep their delusions and somebody can get credit. Thanks.

Well, I'm a former PacBell/SBC Employee, and my best friend, ckgriffin, still works for them at the Trade Street SD office. So she always gets first shot at any ERIC/What it's called this week referrals from me. :-)

Re: institutional largesse which may or may not be useful

[kyril.livejournal.com]

That's fine. I couldn't figure out how to phrase an "or the 'referral code' of someone at SBC you like even better than me" clause, so I left it as "such as".

If I cared I'd have offered to help with the hypothetical customer's needs, though that would've turned into a really commercial plug on someone else's blog, which I wouldn't have appreciated if it had been done to me.

At least my chain of command isn't pushing it so hard as to make me want to actively resist...