Ultimately, the question is going to be "why didn't the diesels start."

You know, having had our UPS BLOW UP recently, I wouldn't be surprised, if absent the generators actually sustaining damage (and those things are used because they are so robust and can operate in bad shape,) the UPS took damage or something. But I'm a little scarred for life over that incident, so, biased.

Of to Ellicott City....

IO9 talks about the nuclear plant damage. For once, on a testy issue, I like most of the comments. There's a lot of info-dumping going on there.

I was supposed to go to a new local SF con today (Fogcon, for the locals), in SF. Except I woke up with a cold that hit me really fast, between 11PM when I went to bed and 4:30AM when I woke up unable to breathe.

So now I don't know if it's worth hiking into the city for just a couple of panels. I don't want to be Patient Zero for the Fogcon Con Crud, you know?

Right now I am on the futon with two dogs next to me, and a pot of darjeeling steeping.

Thank goodness for Aleve Sinus & Cold, though: nothing but sudafed really does it for me anymore.

I don't care how unhealthy McDonald's oatmeal is. It's hella tasty.

I mean, seriously, we are speaking in comic book language here.

Ha! Also way too true. The earth's axis has shifted? I mean, I guess it makes sense that it would wiggle around a bit every once in a while. Doesn't it do a 180 and flip every few million years? Or was that a line of hog hooey I was once fed?

I am finding all these natural disasters kind of overwhelming and impossible to comprehend. Even knowing about the flooding in Australia and Pakistan, I couldn't really process what it would mean, especially in terms of long term recovery. And I'm feeling the same way now with the earthquake and tsunami.

I wish SO MUCH that none of us had such overwhelming stresses.

I just want to say this, again. You poor guys. I believe that everyone will get through everything. I know it's so much, for so many of you, and I'm sorry.

What Jesse said.

I'm sorting through my papers and bills so I can do my taxes. Thrilling. But my massage therapist called and has a cancellation, so I get a massage in two hours. So that's a win.

The earth's axis has shifted? I mean, I guess it makes sense that it would wiggle around a bit every once in a while. Doesn't it do a 180 and flip every few million years? Or was that a line of hog hooey I was once fed?

The magnetic poles swap position every few million years. The earth's axis also shifted a couple inches after the tsunami in Indonesia in... 2004? It changes the length of the day by point-something seconds.

It changes the length of the day by point-something seconds.

I hope for an extra something as I still have time in the day issues.

Once again I am grateful for the source of real and understandable information I find here. Why do I even turn on the cable news channels?

Nope, sorry, slightly shorter day.