more about floods

this is day three of being home with no work. it's sunny out today, for the first time in a week and a half. hopefully this will help the river go down. i went back to ebscoland yesterday with k. she would never have believed it if she had not seen it herself. the water was higher--up over the street and up to the door handles on the building i work in. i could see into the basement, and there was more water than yesterday. more floating journals. the storm emergency message system for the company said that the managers would meet today to discuss temporary work stations... but i don't know how you can set up that many new computers with all of the programs we use to work in. i guess we'll see...

k. and i went to G. College's gym yesterday. i was desperate for some exercise after so many days apart from my ebscoland gym. and it's been far too wet and cold outside. it felt wonderful to finally move my legs and lift some weights and do my crunches and run a mile. there's this machine there that you hook your leg over and push sideways and out, or sideways and in. i walked away from that machine with jelly legs, but it felt so good.

so did the sauna afterward.

we had j.'s brother and his girlfriend over last night. i like her so much. i can see her joining as part of the family, and that makes me so happy.

i have a hair appointment today in ipswich. s. was relocated across the street to another salon, but called last night to say she'd still be available to cut my hair. i'm so glad.

at least someone's not losing business.