No Rain Here

Last night I got home around midnight and a local station was blurting that the wind was picking up. I stepped out of my truck anticipating strong winds and I was surprised by a normal light breeze that is typical for the Austin area.

This morning I am waking up (a bit late in the day mind you) but the sun is shining, no rain, and very little wind. I was supposed to attend a training class for victim’s advocacy today (first of three days) and nothing.

I suppose that, if we do get any effects from Rita, it may occur tomorrow with lots of rain while I am working on my 24hr shift, which will be okay. I don’t mind the rain here. I have lived in the Austin area for more than 20 years now and we rarely get affected from the storms, other than some rainfall, which is very much needed for our area right now.

I haven’t moved around much - checked out the news, etc. Rita was supposed to have reached landfall around 4-5am this morning. I hope and pray that there wasn’t much devastation and Rita decided to keep downgrading from what she was doing yesterday. That would certainly be a blessing for everyone concerned; the last thing that Louisianna needs right now is any degree of additional devastation.

Just finished a download (it hit a snag last night, so I retried it this morning—errr, afternoon) of the Corel Paint Shop and experimented a little this morning with the flower picture. This software package is ohhhh sooo much more sophisticated than my photo editors that I had on my computer. The sky is limitless with this software, at least in comparison to what I had. I can see that I can easily get wrapped up in experimenting more with this software in the days to come.

In the meantime, I guess it is time to move away from my computer sitting by my bedroom window and get some things actually accomplished for the day (what a concept!) although just sitting here feels nice after putting in more than 100 hours of work between Sunday and Thursday. Today is a well deserved day of rest!!!

Hope all is well with the rest of the world as I continue to get some sleep out of my eyes, looking at hopping in a hot shower to refresh myself, and tackle the astrocities that may be at my apartment. More soon....

Laters....