Life

I more or less ended last year by spending some some time back up north in Bristol. It was a solo trip, which at the time seemed to be a shame, due mostly to the twenty inches of snow that the boys weren't able to play in because they were 300 miles south.

Friday night the Universe made up for that.

When I first saw the notice of the storm while it was still in the gulf, I didn't expect it to have much impact upon my life. Hurricane season was, well, over. The storm was forming well west of here, and even if it did head north and east, I expected it to cross well south (Atlanta?) from where I've been sitting for the last couple days watching the wind and rain.
What is it that storms in the I slot have against Virginia Beach?
Isabel was the storm from 2003. It was the storm that made me rethink how to deal with hurricanes. As in, I don't want to be anywhere near where the storm is going to be at Category 3 or above. As in I'm leaving if there is a better than 75% chance that the storm is going to be a strong Category 2 and on top of me within 72 hours.
Here I am, sitting in a house where the outside air is so wet that the wood on the railing for the stairs feels damp to the touch. And that railing is INSIDE the house. We don't have any water or leaks in the house (that we are aware of) so it seems the roof is OK. I did find a shingle in the backyard, but with the way the wind has been blowing, that could have come from the next state.
Now that I have moved to full time work from home (since April), I pretty much spend all day sitting in the loft at the computers. And the last 3 days I have had everyone home between the holiday and the weather closures.
I sent a tweet earlier asking if anyone remembered what the Sun looked like (a coworker sent me a link to NASA).
And in part, I'm starting to wonder what the world outside this house looks like.
I wonder if this weekend will eventually reveal a world not in perpetual twilight.
Good night everyone. I'm going to bed.

Saturday and Sunday were the first full days with my new Droid phone. I couldn't help but gloat a little with Brain about him having to wait till today to get his via FedEx. Of course, he got a much better price. I'm waiting for his Droid to finish charging to post this. Thus the Brothers Droid in the title.
Saturday, the first full day with the Droid, had the whole family in the car using the GPS to get Sam to a meetings for a school project. It worked fairly well. The destination was in a not yet completed housing development, so we got to the street, but not the house numbers. (Google Maps satalite view still showed about 3/4 of the houses there closer to holes in the ground than houses.)
I'm also working on getting my social networking status updates working. Ping.fm app is installed. Brightkite is install (and working really well with the GPS). Evernote for Android is still in beta, so lacks some features. I did not see an official Flickr app, so I'm thinking of which ones out there to try (or maybe just fall back to whatever ping.fm offers). And I already miss TimeTracker MX.
I did try (and appears failed) to navigate sending a couple of pictures from one of our stops (McDonald's Garden Center).
At a neighborhood party later in the day, I was able to impress a couple of people with pulling down a YouTube video that had been the topic of conversation. It streamed very nicely. Everyone seemed impressed with the phone.
Right now, I'm still waiting for my dear brother to end his self impossed lack of communication (his Droid is charging) where he refuses to call me or take my calls till he can do it on HIS Droid.
There's more I want to write about the Droid, but lunchtime is ending, and I really should get back to work.