Woo-hoo. It's a 50th birthday, sort of. This is my 50th diary for Daily Kos! And I'm almost speechless (oh noes) so I'll keep it short.
Tuesday! A day to celebrate milestones!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we can let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It also allows us to find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, earthquakes etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
IAN is a great group to join, and a good place to learn to write diaries. Drop one of us a Kosmail and ask to be added to the Itzl Alert Network anytime! We all share the publishing duties, and we welcome everyone who reads IAN to write diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
We do have a diary schedule. But, when you are ready to write that diary, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMOM a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FloridaSNMOM is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday:
BadKitties
Tuesday:
ejoanna
Wednesday:
Caedy
Thursday:
art ah zen
Friday:
FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:
Most Awesome Nana
Sunday:
loggersbrat
Yep, 50 diaries, many, many of them for the IAN brand. No presents please. (Well, if you insist.) Maybe an adult beverage and some cake. I know some of you are great bakers. . . and I suspect that many of us are consumers of the above-mentioned adult beverages, too.
Pouring rain (again) in the SF Bay Area as I complete this 50th communique. I already see that there's 2.5" in my rain gauge and it's still coming down heavily. I'm running out of superlatives for this abrupt reversal of meteorological fortune for the state of California!
12:22 AM PT: Update as of midnight, PST: We have had a total of 3.75" of rain just today at newly-formed Lake Ejoanna!