Weekend return

There is a local office of my company about 30 miles from where I'm staying, so I've been in that office the last 2 days and most likely will be tomorrow as well even though the New Orleans office opened this afternoon. My ex-neighbors Blake and Mr. Shaw drove by my house and it looks like my block has power although they're not 100% sure since no one was around...but that's good enough to get me on the road home this weekend. Apparantly I have not been myself say my friends, which is totally understandable to me but seemed to be a question to them. I basically have to start over with all my projects at work, I had no idea how my newly adopted city would survive and no information on the status of my house and everything in it. I think that is reason enough to be a bit melancholy, even after the imminent danger had passed.

I've been glued to CNN since being here which I usually never watch, I get my news on the radio, but I can't turn away in the last 2 weeks with both conventions and the hurricane. I was guffawing and speechless, one after the other, during Palin's speech. The macabre chanting of the republicans ('drill baby drill!') last night was spooky as hell, nightmarish. All those overweight older pasty-skinned morons with stupid hats on. Ugggh. They'll drum up some more support for Obama after that, for sure.

So I will most likely hit the road on Saturday, back to the Big Easy, and another round of figuring out what was damaged by the storm. I could make a career out of this....