Crazy Days

Forty-four years ago tonight, I sat down in front of our black and white TV, and was transported for the first time to "Space, the final frontier..." The first episode of Star Trek to be shown was "The Man Trap", unfortunately - but it introduced me to a new world, and I fell in love, at age 10, with then Lt.-Cmdr. Spock. I'm still in love with Spock.
The kits are fine today; I'm tired. Remy, Rosie, Suki and Boo are all fine. I'm worried about Grandma Anne and Tabitha, as they went back up to the house on Sugarloaf this morning - even though it's still very much within the evacuation area. The fire? It's still 0% contained - four people are missing - over 140 structures have been documented as completely destroyed, even though less than half of the area has been checked. Supposedly, only those people who are qualified fire fighters are allowed within the evacuation area - Grandma Anne took a few back roads and ran into no traffic cones or personnel to turn her back. So she is happily back home, the fire still burns, and the family worries. If you want to look at a map of the area, you can see the evacuation area, the fire area of 11 square miles, and (on the east side of the map) the city of Boulder, including the two sites I was house-sitting on Monday and Tuesday:
http://www.bouldercounty.org/bocc/FourMileFireWebPerimeter.pdf

I wrote a much longer, and (I thought) nicer posting earlier, but Lovey sat down on the keyboard and erased the whole lot just as I was about to click the Publish Post button.... oh, well

If you want to visit a few fun web sites, I recommend:
http://howbigreally.com/
http://bit.ly/zombie-ant
http://sciencemag.org/content/vol329/issue5995/r-samples.dtl