Will have confirmed news of what's up next - all of which is pretty great assuming it all works out - very, very soon. It better be soon, considering I leave here a week from Monday morning.


HURRICANE AFTERMATH UPDATE
So we're still here - haven't been dealt with yet. The AC, phone, and cable were all out until late tonight - now we have cable and phone but still no AC. This is making the soaked room I used to call "mine" smell to high heaven, with wet carpet and walls and whatnot having a lot of trouble drying out in the awesome humidity and heat. Mildew, mold, and who knows what else is growing in there. We've not been moved, and our place has not been fixed. Truthfully, there are many greater problems in the wake of this storm... but not for the apartment maintenance people here, who are apparently not keen on doing anything about any of this. Those responsible for providing for our housing here have at least thrown a token gesture of some fans and air purifiers at us. They tell us they'll be talking to the apartment complex, and if nothing is done tomorrow, it's hotels for us and receipts for them! Really, though - our problems here are all petty stuff, when you think of everything else that's going on.

In the bigger picture there are many other people in Florida who have serious problems in the wreckage this "Hell Storm" (as Drudge Report called it, making me giggle even during the thing) left behind. Today I went to the Sprint store and the customer rep was busy while talking to me, asked if it was okay if he kept doing what he was doing while talking because he had to activate 60 phones for Florida Power and Light because all land lines a little north of Bonita Springs are down. There are a lot of people unaccounted for, and part of the reason for that is that there is no way for many of them to communicate with the outside world at all. We're lucky, here - internet, power, phone... everything. Not far from here, people's entire lives were destroyed. So, you can see that while it is a real pain to live with in this climate it's a little hard to get up in arms about not having air conditioning.

It's late, and I think I'm finally tired enough to fall sweatily to sleep. Blech.