I'm sorry for the delay - we got into some nasty weather here last night. Brown got home around eleven and the skies opened up. Thunder, lightning, all kinds of impressive celestial stuff. I powered down the hardware and stepped into the bathroom, and when I came out Brown was no longer lying in bed but was fully dressed and stocking the windowless bathroom with water, flashlights, candles, and the one battery-operated AM-FM radio we still own. These are all very bad signs. Turns out that a funnel cloud had been sighted about three miles to the west of the Piedmont Triad Airport, which was especially nerve-wracking as we live about five miles to the west of the Piedmont Triad Airport. Since Brown is good with math, he added tornado plus location and got proper-fucked. I spent a good part of the night in a tiny bathtub with a very scared Rottweiler curled up in my lap, and as of this morning, this is the scene less than five miles from my house. I think we got very lucky.

See you on Monday!

Sorry, please check back tomorrow. We're in the middle of The Big Ol' Storm of Power Failures and Tornadoes. So far there's been plenty of the former, none of the latter (knock on wood), but it's making work a little bit challenging.

I'm going to power down and hope for the best tomorrow. Have a great lightning-free night!

If you are a fan of webcomics and National Public Radio, you might want to make some time today to catch North Carolina's broadcast, "The State of Things." Members of the North Carolina Webcomics Coffee Clatch (aka: my local pack of degenerate reprobates with mad creative skillz) will be appearing to discuss the group on the program. Representing us are Larry "mckenzee" Holderfield, Ursula "Lady Wombat" Vernon, and Stephanie "I've Only Met Her Twice but She's Extremely Nice" Freese.

The program will air on North Carolina's NPR at 12:40 EST, then replay at 9:40 EST, and there will be a podcast archive to follow. The aforementioned link has livestreaming and archives so check it out if you are so inclined.

This message is also up over at my Livejournal if you'd like to comment on the program.