California Burning

A couple updates. I had a commenter ask why And Still I Persist was offline - if the fires had damaged something. I emailed Bruce Webster. It is a server problem that he is working on. That's good news. Meanwhile, Lex took his family and evacuated - even though he was not under a mandatory order.

Ensconced ourselves - rather informally, from the standpoint of military regulation - at my working digs, the place being otherwise vacant what with orders keeping all but “critical personnel” at home. Our boss told us the work wasn’t going anywhere, take care of family - good man himself.

The work place seemed as likely as any - I’m pretty much the HMFWIIC of the building I occupy, and we slept unmolested after a brief stop by McP’s in Coronado for comestibles. Your correspondent being more in need of strength than nurture took his refreshment courtesy of the gentlemen from Saint Jame’s Gate (and many thanks to occasional reader Bryan who threw a preemptive fin in the tin, for to help in the paying of it). Didn’t have the heart to bear with sleeping on a gym floor among a cast of thousands, but the office floor wasn’t so very much better - apart from the fact that the gentle exhalations of those sleeping around me were familiar to me. Note to those who follow after: If you’re going to bring the family cat, bring the litter box. Otherwise the little beasts will make do.

His post is updated. So far, he and his family are safe and well.