Back on the ice and OSG is tossed out in the cold…

7:15 am, and we're up and writing when the phone rings, and lo! OSG has been ousted from the building where she works due to 'smoke in the premises.'

She asked if she could come sleep on the couch. Yep. She drove over (rather than drive back to her own town, another 20 miles) and collapsed on the couch with coverlet and pillow. Her office, meanwhile, had made the local news: turned out to be no more than a couple of batteries in the, yes, security and fire detection system that had burned up. ...