Life, Interrupted

As all folks who have spent any time living in the Southeast, South Central, or Mid-Atlantic know, it's not *if* Waffle House stays open during a storm. (Although that can be good news.) It's how fast the local Waffle House opens back up after a storm passes. And whether they have a full menu or a limited menu.

That tells you all you need to know about what's going on in the region. Blessings on Craig Fugate, who with his team started noting whether Waffle House was up and rolling in a storm hit area, because that told them how recovery was going. And he took that unofficial but official system to FEMA.

I didn't know until this article that the executive suite was paying attention to the fast recovery of some of their locations after Hurricane Katrina. They learned from the ground!

"The restaurant chain’s disaster readiness is no coincidence. Seven locations were destroyed and 100 more shut down in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, but company executives saw business skyrocket at restaurants that reopened quickly.

"They soon embraced a business strategy centered around keeping their restaurants operable during and after a disaster, according to the company’s website. The chain said it has invested in portable generators, bought a mobile command center and trained employees on what they can still serve if they lose electricity."

https://apnews.com/article/waffle-house-index-hurricane-1489d75a250f85c38a898bd93e39d41a?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

“My father was an alcoholic and I heard all the time, ‘Can’t you do anything right? What’s the matter with you? Can’t you do anything right?’, so with the ribbons, I was like, ‘Oh, I can do something right.’,” Johnson said.

"Johnson stitched 609 of her ribbons together into a quilt. The quilt won her yet another blue ribbon in 2023 – and a spot in the Smithsonian Museum’s Renwick Gallery."

https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/new-mexico-state-fair-ribbon-quilt-now-on-display-in-smithsonian/

Victoria Strauss talks about some of the latest things seen.

I feel for my fellow creatives, and also for groups that want to actually contact writers to invite them places. Because most of us ignore everything now. Much harder to get the attention of a writer.

https://writerbeware.blog/2026/08/28/production-companies-literary-agents-foreign-languages-ai-driven-scams-continue-to-morph/

I don't know if I could use David Maltbie anywhere in Allie's World, because he died young (by my count--my family is mostly long-lived) in 1807. His years as a spy for Washington were so buried it took generations before it surfaced. He did leave behind a widow and seven children (?) and as he was successful later in life, I hope they were fine. But here's a taste of what is known about still another spy for General George Washington, still another man who had ties to Connecticut.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/this-connecticut-teenager-spied-on-the-british-during-the-american-revolution-succeeding-where-nathan-hale-failed-180989309/

The Internet is made of cats.

But a bodega cat has been interviewed, and he wants to let you know--he can't fix your life for you.

He is open to a few scritches, however.

(And if your landlord accepts mice in payment for rent, maybe he *can* help.)
( I Can't Fix Your Life; I'm Just a Bodega Cat Stretching )

Just a simple intro. Dayglow and nightglow also exist, as sub-categories. It can be reproduced in a lab!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airglow

Example can be found over on FB, if you still have that hanging around. This is photographer Bryan Hansel's Page. So may be public.

https://www.facebook.com/Bryan.Hansel.Photography/posts/pfbid0SGcAMoA5jmYhLBjAZmjD6RJ5AqfSjmEBWGtCw6dz1rC9txcGU1V3auBYzeBv74uyl

I'd need a bigger guest room, and the shower somewhere I would not think about cleaning it all the time.

But this was done with love, taken care of, and the SCENERY!

It is, alas, out of budget.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4385-Wildwood-Ln-Anacortes-WA-98221/23383466_zpid/?

Charles is offering the story in PDF and in EPUB.

ICE cane to Newford, that magical boundary where faerie and humankind can meet.

Big mistake.

https://www.charlesdelint.com/IceOut.html

Don't worry about him. They got him back to the woods.

https://apnews.com/article/owl-sleeping-antique-store-new-york-oddities-b5d1c494d0369fb0e3c5051b835fb3b2

It's a big study. Times and thoughts on things change, but it looks like coffee and tea in moderation can be protective for drinkers. I also drink a couple of cups of caffeinated coffee for other health reasons, so this becomes doubly useful.

Ironically, it was tea for many years until about ten years ago. And I started drinking coffee because my system demanded it. Took years to know why.

Yes, I am slightly picky. Single source, high mountain, caffeinated. Always Central American coffees first!

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2844764