In which Piglet is Entirely Surrounded by Water

Today,
southeastern Pennsylvania had
its worst floods
since the terrible night of 20 June 1972, when
Hurricane
Agnes filled the rivers and the towns. Fin spent most of the day helping zir
great-aunt Sis move things out of her basement and ground floor, and providing
for her cat and dog (Sis's wife Wendy is away at the other end of the state).
Sis said in a satisfied grumpy-old-woman sort of way, "I don't care if the flood
comes up above the
ceiling, I'm not going anywhere." She's got some
food and water upstairs now in case she can't get down to the kitchen. We are
checking on her regularly, and have of course offered her a bed here up the
hill, but she's staying put.
SEPTA weren't running the
R6 today because it was
flooded, so SaraMae drove into Philly with me and Sharon (and picked us up in
the evening). I spent today (other than meetings and so on) working on bringing
up a new copy of
Kartouche for
the 2006 translations. (Kartouche is lovely, mostly, and more people should use
it.) Not much else happened.
Oh, yes, and we're hiring again! If you want to work where I work, and you speak
Perl, and working in Philadelphia is a possibility for you,
go read the
posting. The pay isn't exactly wonderful but the benefits are good, the
people are lovely and you're really making a difference in the world.
At
St Mark's, where they
were celebrating the feast of
St
Irenaeus in glory gold and red around, I ran into
Brian the homeless guy at
the back of the nave. I didn't recognise him in such a different context at
first. He asked how I was, and said he goes there every day. Afterwards I
realised I should have offered to buy him dinner (I don't really have any spare
cash for takeaway at the moment even for myself, but he was probably hungry). I
think St Mark's gives homeless people dinner quite often. Perhaps they'd be
interested in the Benefit Bank.
Thomb sent us a present of
the most beautiful book I have seen for years. It's a big facsimile of an
illuminated and illustrated manuscript copy of the Gospels and Acts. I love
illumination, and lettering, and the Gospel story, and having them all together
makes me very happy.
I realised at work that we could use the
Google Maps geocoding API for
something useful, but I'm not sure
whether
that applies to us.
I wrote
a
description of the new theme format in the car as SaraMae was driving us
home, and then fell asleep.