As I write this I’m sitting in the Prytania movie theater in Uptown New Orleans for what is surely the most awesome premiere I’ve ever…
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As I write this I’m sitting in the Prytania movie theater in Uptown New Orleans for what is surely the most awesome premiere I’ve ever…
Bit of a breakthrough today. I finished cleaning the nasty, flood-damaged stuff out of our utility room. (Litter box full of month-old floodwater — yuck!)…
Sometime over the past day or two, rox.com e-mail services became intermittent and then shut down completely. I spoke with our service provider, MidPhase, this…
Michael graciously allowed me to use his camera for a while, and I took this picture of myself.
A familiar blue car pulled up across the street from our house this afternoon, and I was overjoyed when Danielle and Donika and Crystal and…
We’re dealing with two insurance adjusters — one for flood damage, and one for wind damage. It’s not the most convenient arrangement, but I’m not…
Yesterday was a good day. A hearty breakfast at Slim Goodies, a day of cleaning out the house, meeting with the adjuster, and then meeting…
Just met with Roland Graybill, the adjuster for our flood claim, a lean, long-haired Southern dude. Affable. He took some measurements and some photos and…
I went back to my neighborhood today. The flood-damaged crap which Michael and I had hauled out from my house to the curb was still…
Thirteen hours and 860 miles from Bloomington to New Orleans. Hell of a drive. It looks like this trip will cost about $250 in gas…
The scratchy throat passed. It was followed by a runny nose, which lasted for a day, but has passed now too. Many people have confirmed…
Here’s a video clip [QuickTime, 17MB] of our evacuation from New Orleans.
Best news of the day: Clean water in my ‘hood! Mayor Ray Nagin announced Thursday that safe drinking water has been restored to New Orleans’…
I got a Blackberry so I could stay in touch with e-mail and web stuff on my recent trip back to New Orleans. It was…
This picture has been featured on the nola.com homepage for the last 24 hours: She’s cleaning up her home in Lakeview. Personally I find it…
I’m gearing up for another trip down to New Orleans, to take care of the stuff I didn’t finish last time. I’d hoped to drive…
On Sunday Xy and I drove out to my parents’ house, and then the four of us drove to Naperville, Illinois for a surprise party.…
We went up to Indianapolis Saturday for Abraham Christie’s first birthday party. It was good to see li’l Abe and also his parents, PJ and…
A few things that I didn’t post which still stand out in my mind from our recent trip to New Orleans: There were lots of…