One of the front page stories in today's
Sacramento Bee covered the unpleasant prospect of levee breaks in the Sacramento region. (Dunno how long the link will be active, but
here it is.)
Nice little map that went with it, showing how many government agencies will be flooded if we have a levee break a mile south of downtown. (Virtually all of them, except the lottery offices.)
Interestingly, both my place of business, as well as my apartment, fall into the 3 - 7 feet of flooding range. Sweet. Glad I live on the second floor!
Had a nice talk last night with my friend Shannon. (The local one, not the one back home.) I'd called her to see if she wanted to go to see The Kimberly Trip at Luna's this Friday, only to find out that she'd sent me an email the other day mentioning the same concert. I never got that email, though. She'd attached a bunch of photos she'd take of me at the Sac-Poly pool night a couple weeks ago. Must've gotten hung up somewhere in limbo.
Last Friday was my last day to cancel going to the Loving More conference in June. Since I'm decidedly strapped for cash, I called them up Friday after work and told Robyn I wasn't going to be able to make it. She was bummed, because she was hoping I'd be there to sell copies of my book. I said I'd hoped to do that, too, but...
"We sell a lot of books at that conference," she says.
"A lot?"
"A lot."
Hm. Cardigan's calculator tells him that he only needs to sell a couple dozen books to completely cover the cost of the conference. And of course, the exposure is even more important than the immediate financial return...
"And," she goes on, "I'll toss in bunkhouse lodging at no cost."
Guess where I'll be for four days in June?
The D.C. trip is coming pretty soon. Apparently, I haven't mentioned it, but after that trip ends, I'm taking the rest of the week off. I'll see my kid brother (who lives in Baltimore). I'm going to meet two of my MySpace friends (who live in Fredericksburg, VA). And then I'm headed up to Brooklyn to visit an old friend.
I can't even begin to convey how excited I am to see Cris again. It's been so long... almost a decade. We were co-workers for a time at a job back in the Philly area. We weren't even, honestly, all that close of friends. But she was very important to me for a few reasons.
But y'know, I have some trepidation about seeing her again. Truth is, I had a big crush on her at the time. And I fear that I've built her up a lot in my memory. I sometimes wonder if she's really anything like my "memories" of her. Wouldn't be the first time I've had unrealistic expectations of people.
We'll see. I'll be in Brooklyn in only 17 days.
And speaking of New York... last night at The Blue Cue, the bartender (who's from Long Island) tipped me off to excellent pizza here in Sactown! Giovanni's, here I come! Woo hoo!
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