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.