So, looks as if the forecasters missed the boat a little on Tropical Storm Erin. Specifically, the Weather Channel stationed their "man on the scene" down in Corpus Christi but it came in a bit north of there and put Houston on the dirty side of the storm. For those who don't live in tropical weather territory, that means that we're on the side of the storm where the winds are coming in from over the Gulf and are thus the most rain-laden. Glad I'm on vacation because the route I usually take home was underwater this afternoon. That would have sucked but I avoided that fate. Yay!

Erin never worried me but I'll admit that Dean makes me nervous. That one looks likely to develop into a killer storm and the water temps are primed to make it deadly. Luckily, Joe will be in town for Dean so I'll have help in closing down his business, my office, and our house before evacuating if it looks like it's headed this way. That's a nice bonus over 2005's Rita fun when I got to do that all on my own.

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Thank you to whomever nominated some of my SG-1 icons for a Stargate fan award. I didn't know that the nomination period had opened - I'm not getting my memos! - and I had no idea there was room to nominate icons. I've nominated fic and videos in the past but don't recall ever seeing an icon category. That was completely unexpected. In fact, when I got the notice, I thought, "Oh dear, someone nominated the brilliant fic, Speak the Living, that paian wrote for me during the Teal'c ficathon and my name has accidentally been used as the author."

So, I was shocked that the noms were actually for me. I'm touched and honored. Thank you. :)