Between Nett's barbecuing and forest fires, the air quality around in Seattle is somehow worse than Beijing. This is not hyperbole.
I'm now halfway across the country from there, thankfully... no bad air around here. This is the air quality in Vancouver as of this morning... definitely chew-able.
I saw that my hometown in north Idaho is under an air quality alert too, so it must be pretty much the whole NW.
Yep... it's all blowing south. This is a 3-day loop of the smoke blowing into the NW. https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/892974407190061056
I saw a pic of what appeared to be double suns in Seattle due to the shit in the air. It looked amazing.
Being able to take my nearly two year old outside without worrying about her getting emphysema during a heat wave is better. Maybe I'll drag her kiddie pool into the garage and fill it with ice packs or something.
I thought the whole NW was green and environmentally friendly. What is the pollution from, smoking pot?
There are some big ass forest fires going on in BC right now. The smoke is illegally entering America.
Once again, Canada can't handle its forest fires and demands USA take care of their smoke problem. Sad!
Today I was supposed to show my dad the exhibit I curated and go to a baseball game with him but e cancelled due to a chance of rain and I didn't get the memo until I was two blocks from the gallery so instead I went to get ice cream, get bullied by a squirrel in the park, embarrass myself at a used bookstore , and accidentally get CARTOONISHLY DRUNK at a 2 4 1 at a happy hour where I attempted to get French 75s but am pretty sure I just drank straight bottom shelf gin on the rocks. I'm now swerving my way home to make dinner. Sigh.
Gin could be dinner if it didn't make me want to eat a whole bag of chips or a giant bowl of pasta for dinner. So instead I'm making my nice summery soup instead. Gin is my alternative to vodka because I can't drink vodka because it just tastes like throwing up and alcohol poisoning as a teenager to me, but I forget that cheap gin drunk feels just as terrible as any vodka drunk. One or two cocktails of a nice gin is GREAT, especially in the summer. One or two cocktails of who-the-fuck-knows gin makes me want to just lean on the nearest man to me in the crowded subway and hope he instinctively carries me home sans sexual assault or burglary. Unfortunately, I just knocked a little kid over on the platform, found a seat on the train on my own, and spent the whole trip hoping the mom next to me was not smelling my eau-de-gin wafting over to her at 6:30 on a Thursday.
and dam, you still write well I went to the bar, had a couple pints, told the bartender when I was cashing out that I was getting a shot for good luck for the city council vote tomorrow and he ended up pouring me a mighty generous ketel one on the house no less.