Coffee

Anyone up for coffee or something (cheap) tonight?  Epoch would be lovely. 

The rest of the night, I know I'll be up in front of the TV watching the potential decimation of my family's home town .We immigrated to Galveston, and my family lived on the beachfront until my Dad was in grade school, and they moved to the mainland just north of the island.  My great grandfather started the first radio station on the island, and my grandfather was a big part of the first airstrip and aviation development.  My grandmother remembered hearing tales from her mother of the 1900 storm, and the relatives it claimed.  I'm sentimental about the place.  I know it has weathered many a hurricane before, and I've been there for more than one of them (most memorably Alicia in '83), but I'm still jumpy from Katrina.

Ah...ah...ah...CHOO!

Just in case you happened to not be aware of it, onyxlynxx  is awesome.  She has been an angel during this cold/allergy extravaganza of a week.  Just this evening she brought home chicken tortilla soup with three little tubs of red chile sauce to go in it - now that will get the sinuses and lacrimal ducts moving. :P

Wishing my laptop played video.  K and her mom are watching a movie, and already the notices of power outages in Houston and emergency rescues on Bolivar peninsula are coming in, hours before landfall.  And the internet idiots saying that anyone who couldn't or didn't evacuate should die and we shouldn't waste resources on them.