Harvey derailed my birthday plans and any feelings for a strong celebration – but at least it also meant I got the day off, so honestly I took a nap most of the day. š
Making this the official gods Iām 31 post. And I really miss having a bouquet of gladiolus flowers. Letās make that my request of the night- if anyone of my followers finds a neat picture of them, drop them in my inbox.
I might come back and edit in 11 (silly) questions but since I never tag people in these memes, [hand wave]
1. Autumn or Spring?
Spring. Autumn down here is still just as hot as summer (which okay, subtropics, we have seasonal changes, itās just not drastic), but Spring is the last gasp of activity before it gets so hot that you donāt really stay outdoors. And just on a metaphorical level, spring is new renewal.
2. What sort of dreams do you typically have?
I daydream and have long-running stories, but my actual dreams tend to be those anxiety-driven psuedo-nightmares. Being flustered and unprepared boarding airplanes for a trip. That sort of thing. I banish them from my memory within fifteen minutes of waking up.
3. Thirteen hungry dwarves have come uninvited to your house! Quick, what do you prepare for them?
Pantry and kitchen normal? Iām making them tacos, because all I have to do is brown the ground meat and add seasonings. Unlike my other staple dishes, I donāt have to wait for rice or pasta noodles. As long as I have the tortillas, cheese, sour cream, any extras like lettuce, tomato, etc.., they can customize their tacos as they want, itās eaten with hands so the only dishes I have to clean is one frying pan and plates. Itās standard quasi Tex-Mex so I represent (If I had them on-hand/didnāt have to make,Ā prepare,Ā and cook per-say, my other choice would be to steam them tamales, because omg that was the best thing I discovered when I first moved down here was pork tamales, and those are Tex-Mex)
4. Five songs or groups youāve been into lately?
Bishop Briggs, the soundtrack to King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, rediscovering teenage-meās love of certain songs by Slipknot, The Revivalists, The Lumineers
5. Would you rather be saved by an Elven prince plagued by a terrible Oath or a Space Alien princess overcome by grief?
Allura is so much better than any son of FĆ«anor also have we done a compare her to Elwing yet? If Children of HĆŗrin and The Silmarillion proper have taught me anything, getting involved with tragic heroes under Oaths is not conductive to long health. Alien princess we can mutually save each other with bonds of friendship
6. This world is falling apart but a portal has opened up. Which fictional world would you like to live in for the rest of your life?
I want safety and security and the internet/modern convenience is so nice. Honestly Iād pick one of the SF universes that isnāt too war-torn. The Vorkosigan books- because the medical tech is so good and I could watch the news and see the headlines and know Miles is behind whatever bullshit crisis is going on.
7. The most hilarious mishap youāve had or had witnessed?
[Honestly, drawing a blank here]
8. If youāre a fanfic writer: do you remember the first ever fic you ever wrote? Or if you write mainly original fic: first story? Artists: first art piece? Ā
Finished full-length? Original fic, twelve years old, team of five spec ops each with a pegasus (three women, two guys, color-coded, heavily influenced by Heralds of Valdemar and the Star Wars X-Wing series)
9. What book or show or movie or game was dearest to your heart as a child?
Thinking back? Disney princess movies, probably. And certain segments of Fantasia. Little Mermaid and Beauty and Beast for wee little heget especially.
10. Any book/movie/show/game rec for your followers?
The Belisarius Series or Ring of Fire/1632 books if you want some SF historical fiction that tackle such a wide variety of social and technological topics, are incredibly funny, especially Belisarius which tackles what it is to be counted human and has so many awesome empresses and my golden standard for Evil Empire (that is to say- at first glance it seems stereo-typically fetish awful, like GRRMās Ghiscari bad- but when broken down you root for the individual parts of it). Ring of Fire because hereās thousands of pages about European -and World- History of the mid-1600s that you never knew about (Japanese Christians in Thailand), and science and tech both modern and not, hereās a detailed story about trying to overthrow the absolute monarchies and religious persecution (and save the Dodo).Ā
Manga/Comics? Green Lanterns run by Sam Humpheries. Fall in love with Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. New Super-man – itās a good stand-alone/self-contained story for the most part about a Chinese teen who gets the powers of Superman. Rurouni Kenshin (watch the live-action movies if nothing else; theyāre an adaptation done right). Fullmetal Alchemist manga. Princess Tutu (for the love of god, watch Tutu)
11. Is the absence of evidence an evidence of absence?
Whatās the data collection? The question as postulated has incomplete data – if nothing else we have evidence of lack of clarification on how rigorous this data collection and methods used were to have absences.
YES, god, ābut why didnāt they just leeeaaveā makes my blood boil.
YES. Someone says that and I want to smack them.Ā
Maybe because they donāt have transportation, or a relative/pets/business/something they canāt or feel they shouldnāt leave behind. (Those I know that stayed, it was because of that or because like me lived inland enough. Heck, the owner of the newborn calf Harvey- he runs a boarding kennel so he was staying- and shaking his head as so many people who were evacuating Corpus were leaving their animals at his facility) Maybe they donāt have the cash set aside to pay for an extended trip out of town. Or maybe, just maybe, they know how jam-packed crowded the evacuation routes out of town might be, especially if trying to leave the day of, with rain already coming down and the roads dangerous to drive on. And that with everyone trying to get out -regular Houston traffic is bad enough- just imagine everyone stuck in their cars as the floodwaters hit instead of their houses.
Maybe because they remembered that of the 113 who died in Texas because of Hurricane Rita, 107 were related to trying to evacuate the city (if you look specifics, most causes tied into the heat-wave before the hurricane hit).
BTW – anyone who starts complaining aboutĀ āwhy didnāt the Houstonians evacuate/why are so many people strandedā – Go look up on many people died when Hurricane Rita hit East Texas a few years ago and they were told to evacuate instead of stay. Iāll wait. Then look at the levels of flooding,compare it to what it is now as to what it was during Rita or Allison, and recognize that the city of Houston is situated in low-lying swampland and how the city is constructed, the flood waters to drain out of the city must flow along the highways. Second-guess the mayor telling people to stay in place all you want, but know the logistics of why. Then recognize that the greater majority of the over one million people in Houston donāt have the financial ability to flee- or had the time to do so safely. Same reason why 40% of Rockport stayed. Heck- there are people stuck in Houston because they were trying to evacuate out of the immediate path of Harvey.
Not sure what Iām going to do for my birthday tomorrow except eat the cake I bought today and see about joining my mom in driving over to Ingleside to check on one of her friends and see what we can do to help them out. They have a generator so they have power as of right now. Weāve been lucky.
A map for those curious:
Port Aransas still has no cell, power, water, or sewage.Ā
(For the curious, Iām roughly the same distance Ingleside is from that point labeled Corpus Christi- but in the opposite direction inland along the Nueces River. Whether the damage from Hurricane Harvey was serious or not literally was this difference of what side of the bay)
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