I can’t win. It’s like nature itself is conspiring against me now to keep me from catching up on my work.
Came into the office this morning to discover the window in front of our shipping nook completely blown out and pools of water and broken glass strewn about the area. It turns out there was some severe “tornadic” activity in the area last night and it blew chunks of the roof off of our building and then flung said chunks in a circle of death back into my window. The frightening thing is that despite losing a very large window, there was very little glass inside the office. That’s what leads me to believe we had some twisting winds. The window broke but was sucked OUT away from the building.
We lost our shipping computer, the mac mini my fans bought me years ago. It’s a fountain now. I tipped it over and water poured out of it. We lost the 21 inch Sony CRT monitor. That thing was a workhorse from ages ago. That Trinitron never broke down but it could not withstand water being poured into its port vents. The rain beat in through this broken window right onto the shipping table and just pooled there. Everything on the table marinated in it.
We got very lucky not to lose any product save for a stack of “How to Make Webcomic” books I had sketched in and prepared to ship out. I’m more pissed about the lost time and art than I am the cost of the books. But hey, we could have gotten off with much worse.
So we’ve spent the day cleaning up glass and spreading stuff out to dry. If, in the next week or two you get a package with a wrinkled invoice, know that it survived the mini-tornado of aught 8.
