Dolly was a rude guest (placeholder)

Post coming later tonight or tomorrow morning with full story and link to pictures (and hopefully video, too) if I can not have Aperture fight me tooth and nail with every adjustment.  My computer is showing its age (read: ancient) and Apple is making things harder on us G5-owning folk with each passing upgrade.

I know fighting with a photo management program shouldn’t be a good excuse to delay an otherwise-completed blog post, but I’m a perfectionist that way.  I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that things are fine, both in person and overall with house, etc.  It struck me that although I said “check the twitter status on the right,” 1) not everyone will, 2) ppl read this through feeds and don’t have “a right” sidebar with my updates, and 3) ever since yesterday afternoon, the last tweets have long scrolled off with my personal status, so it wouldn’t help much unless you went to see for yourself.

It’s for you, dear reader, that I put up this placeholder, so please don’t be too hard on me for taking an extra day to make things “just so” for ya.   Thanks for checking in!

Hello Dolly!

Well, I figure I should get a post about Hurricane Dolly out there before we lose power for a while–an inevitability around here as of late even with non-newsworthy thunderstorms. Over the last few days, I’ve been tracking the various computer models of where the storm was going, and there has been striking concordance with the various predictions:

As of this writing, the storm is just about to make official landfall. The radar, with my position tagged, looks like this:

Anyway, just a quick note to have something here for posterity. Power and/or internet will surely go out, but as long as I have both, I’m checking various radar sources regularly. I also have my Blackberry and probably will Twitter things from time to time, so check the sidebar. I had ideas of doing a Qik-like live storm feed, but I value being dry and not having various debris missiles whacking me in the head (not to mention ruining said electronic equipment). Who knows…I might still venture out and get some footage, but I can promise it will be shared after-the-fact.

Pressing “Publish” and hoping for the best!

(quick update: I can’t seem to separate the images and flow with the text the way I want, so sorry about that if it still looks wonky. I’m HTML/CSS challenged more than usual today)