Fire and stuff

[ellettra]

This is the screen I've gotten for 4 days now when trying to post to LJ. This entry subsequently coming to you from Dreamwidth.

The good news is that I got some sleep last night, finally, after 2 nights of frustrating efforts which left me utterly debilitated. The further good news is that with any luck, today we are buying an AC unit. This is just in time for the next 6 days of projected 90+ heat.

Unrelated to the heat, but thematically similar, my office building caught fire a couple of days ago. No one was hurt, and the fire fighters got the blaze put out pretty quickly. Our floor and our office did not sustain any damage, although others were not so lucky. The crazy part was that because the fire alarm sounds so frequently (about once a month, I'd say), we have stopped taking it seriously. So on the way out Yen and I stopped in the restroom, were not in any big hurry at all to make our way outside. When we got outside, we were met by stern fire fighters, ushering us away from the building, and our colleagues, who were grouped with everyone else and pointing at the flames and smoke shooting out of the top of the building.




We went home early, obviously. This is the second law office I've worked in which has had a fire. The first one burned to the ground. This, luckily, was much more minor.

Today is the start of college football, which is cause for great joy and merriment! If only we ever got coverage of MY team. I am sad every year to not be there for the first game, but this too shall pass.

Happy start to the long weekend, everyone!
(P.s. I don't really know how DW works with comments, so just comment on LJ.)

Comments

[makalove]

Trying to migrate over here as much as possible; if I take your LJ account off my reading filter will I miss anything? :)

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Wow. That is one stretch of suck dere. And you didn't even mention the Red Flops. That was pretty awesome video of the fire aftermath you linked to on the Bookface the other day- they've taken it down, but what do they call the bigass fire truck they showed at the scene? It was something totally Port-outlandish.

We haven't had any LJ problems lately, and the status site isn't reporting anything. That screenshot may reflect some kind of broken cookie. Try logging out of LJ, then your browser, dump all your cookies and temp files, and start over.

(And DW comments should work the same.)

[bosoxmom.livejournal.com]

was this the big fire near Riverplace??? looks pretty scary either way.
Glad you are all safe!!

Stay cool.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when this happens with me it's a cookie issue, and clearing them restores things to normal.

Cool pics, although kind of scary!

[ghost-light.livejournal.com]

I was getting that error too. I had to switch over to Opera to post.

[christa-nz.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh @ that fire!
My former law firm had a fire the Friday before I started. The mail girl put a box of groceries on the stovetop in the kitchen, and some partner dude apparently ran in with a fire extinguisher all heroic-like and was overcome by smoke. Most of their damage was from the sprinkler system though...

[slunickomoje.livejournal.com]

Wow - yes, that is quite the fire! Yikes! I'm glad that you're okay!

[nalathilion.livejournal.com]

holy crap! that fire looks totally scary! I can't believe you stopped in the bathroom first. I bet the firefighters were very angry when they saw you.

Have you tried a different browser with LJ? Maybe try IE or Google Chrome & see if you have the same error screen.