Our Dumb Blog

We tried to buy this house last summer.  Someone else snapped it up before we could.  (Our process was delayed by being evacuated by the Waldo Canyon Fire and our loan guy being evacuated as well.)

It’s been burned completely to the foundation in the Black Forest Fire. All the houses but one on that road are.

 

 

 

 

I suffer fits of crazy from time to time.

At the moment, I’m considering refusing to communicate via email unless it’s encrypted. I’m thinking of canceling my telephone service: after all, who do I have to talk to? Do I really need to be able to access wikipedia at the local pizza parlor?

Not because I’m afraid, but because what does it do for me, and what does it do for the system?

Wanted: public key email encryption simple enough that my mother can use it. Does it exist? Enigmail is convenient for me, but is it for her? Google could have gone a long way to making this work, but profit gets in the way.

Is it possible to get by without a telephone in today’s world? Am I crazy enough to give it a try?

This time Black Forest is on fire. The fire apparently started about half a mile from my parents’ house. They’ve evacuated along with my uncle and the pets and they’re all staying with us. One of those times that having a spare bedroom is nice!

Here’s a link to the local paper’s up to the minute coverage.

And here’s the evacuation map.  Mom and Dad’s house is in the southwest corner of the map.  So far the fire has been burning mostly west.

Berck left work this afternoon and helped them load up the cars.  He also grabbed the photo albums!

There’s another fire at Royal Gorge, so you can see two plumes of smoke from our house depending if you’re looking to the south or to the east.

Tomorrow it’s supposed to be less hot (it almost got to 100 today in Colorado Springs) and a lot less windy.