imhilien

Yesterday, Auckland had so much torrential rain that a State of Emergency was declared. Two people died and one person is missing. Parts of West Auckland flooded to the point that Search and Rescue needed a kayak to go from door to door in a neighbourhood. The airport was flooded and had to close and today only the domestic terminal is open.

There was supposed to be an Elton John concert last night but that was cancelled and so is tonight's concert. Today is fine but tonight around midnight we're supposed to have round two of Rain, ugh.

I'm ok, the kitchen roof leaked yesterday but it's fine now. It's been a day for eating chocolate, though!

When a rocket goes up into space, various sections break off and fall back to earth. So I was watching current affairs last night and they mentioned that a section of a Chinese rocket is falling back to earth - but due to some miscalculations, it could possibly land in Wellington, New Zealand's capital, this weekend or early next week. My reaction: WUT. I have friends in Wellington. Peter Jackson lives there!

I wonder if it was meant to land in the Pacific ocean to the east of New Zealand - apparently, there's a rocket graveyard there. What's left of the space station Mir is said to be down there, and if that doesn't sound like the start of a horror movie, I don't know what does. Fingers crossed we'll be alright. The chap narrating this for the show had nervous eyes. I wonder what he knew that we don't. Maybe I'm just speculating.

I recently received a fantasy book I'd ordered online - 'Jolene' by Mercedes Lackey (part of her Elemental Masters series). I had bought the e-book version but I liked it so much I wanted the physical paperback. Ironically, ordering from a Australian bookstore meant that it would get to me quicker than if I ordered it online from a New Zealand place (as far as I could tell). I remember when Borders used to be in town (remember that store?) and they had the full collection of Mercedes' books. I miss those days.

So, Coronavirus. Here in New Zealand there are 8 confirmed cases so far. From tomorrow, everyone coming into New Zealand (except those from Pacific Islands) will be required to go into 14 days quarantine straight away. Things could get stricter. Large gatherings have been cancelled. I hope we don't get to the point that cinemas close, but you never know. Brr. It does help that it's only early autumn so far and today was a lovely fine day of 25 deg C / 80 deg F.  However, we will be heading into winter and the number of cases could increase. I do feel sorry for Europe and other places affected.

Am trying not to panic but I have chronic fatigue and frail-ish lungs. However, last year I only had a cold and it was years since I'd had even that. Writing fan fic is a good way of keeping me diverted right now.

There were only a few episodes of Dr Who screened at its usual night time slot until it suddenly was removed and moved to a morning slot (?). People complained and the official reply was along the lines of, 'We moved it to a time slot more in line with the UK screening time (we're about 12 hours ahead of the UK) because we can, otherwise you can stream it, tra la la!'.   hulk smash    I'll get it out on DVD when it comes out. Grr.

Still looking for a new part-time job.

Now for a funny Lucifer fan fic rec:

The President of Mars - Lucifer has the best present planned for Trixie’s birthday, and Chloe is absolutely going to kill him for it.
(featuring a trip to Mars where Lucifer, who is a dork, tries and fails to have a smoke. Bwahaha)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23055811