We had a huge storm last night, with a long power failure...

We had a huge storm last night, with a long power failure, and there have been storms in Austin and all around us in the past couple of days. This is actually a good thing, because it puts off the chance of wildfires again. Last year, we were surrounded by fires, with hundreds of acres of pine forest and hundreds of homes burned down. But last year it also stopped raining around early February, and this year we're still getting these storms now.

I'm hoping for a summer where I don't get up every morning and check the fire map to see who we know might lose their house today and watch all the frantic pleas for horse trailers and help moving livestock on Twitter.

I got a new laptop on Friday, and it's very nice. I had gotten used to how overheated the old one was, so it's a great to have one that isn't flirting with the possibility of giving me second-degree burns. It's a MacBook, so we didn't have to reinstall anything, just migrated the contents from the old MacBook. (You hook them up together and the new one clones itself from the old one.) I did have to get a new mail program, but that was it.

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lillian13 who makes gorgeous jewelry has a couple of pieces up on the ebay site that is raising money for Spider Robinson's daughter's cancer treatment here. Her pieces are the friendship pendant and the double-sided pendant.