I decided to cancel my Vonage phone service. The service was ok–sometimes better than others–and the price was great–around $28/mo for unlimited long distance anytime–but I now have a bundled package through my cable company. The price is about the same and the quality of the phone calls is lots better. So I called Vonage today to cancel.

After going through numerous ‘if you want this, press that’ I finally got to the person who was able to cancel my service. He asked why I was cancelling, and I told him the truth. Then he started his pitch. First he offered me the same service for $19.95 per month. I said no, cancel my service. Then he offered it to me for $14.95 per month. I said no, cancel my service. Then he came back and said how would I feel about getting the service for free…for one month. Again I said no, cancel my service. But that wasn’t the end of it. He then asked how about free service for 2 months! At this point I had about had it. I just kept saying cancel my service.

Meanwhile, the people who work in offices adjacent to mine were going nuts. At least 3 people stuck their head in my door to ask what was going on. None could believe I was having this much trouble cancelling this phone service.

Finally, after 1/2 hour on the phone with this guy, he agreed to cancel. What is wrong with this? I’m paying the damn bill, so why do I need him to agree to the cancellation?! Had I known I would have been offered these lower rates, I would have suggested cancellation a long time ago! I called Patrick (who also has Vonage service) and told him to call them asap. He should be able to save at least $10 per month.

So I am taking tomorrow off work as one of my final days of vacation. The purpose was to get a one day start on getting my outdoor lights and street decoration up in time for the Light Up deadline of Saturday night. As the saying goes, “the best laid plans…” The rain has started. It’s going to be huge rainstorm that is predicted to last through Sunday and they are predicting 3-4 inches tomorrow alone. There is no doubt I will get the street decoration up, but am not sure about all the lights. They may have to wait until Sunday afternoon. Oh well. At least Murphy will be happy he doesn’t have to spent all day tomorrow in his doghouse.

I have plenty to do inside so my day off won’t go to waste. There’s lots of cleaning and I still have to assemble my village of 75 miniature houses. I didn’t put them up last year since I spent Christmas in Seattle, so I’m excited to have them out once again. Based on past experience (plus the writer’s strike), I’m sure there will be absolutely nothing worth watching on tv, so I should have plenty of time to get the cleaning and last bits of decorating completed inside. I’ll probably play lots of Christmas cd’s…and a couple of new ones that I ordered from Amazon should be here tomorrow.

I have to start baking magic cookie bars this weekend. I’ll be taking them to the office staff party on Monday, but I have to make a batch for home so that Patrick can have the first taste of the year. I also would like to finish my online shopping this weekend as well. It will be so nice to get most all my shopping completed before the last minute. Still am not absolutely certain about what I’m getting everyone, but I’m sure I’ll figure it out eventually.

I can’t believe it’s December. What happened to this year?

So most of the inside Christmas decorating is almost finished. I spent most of the weekend cleaning, decorating and putting away all the carnival glass and other knick-knacks, pictures, etc. Had hoped to get more done but, oh well. I’m taking off work on Friday to try to get a jump on the outdoor decorating that’s due to be up by Saturday night. We’ll see how that goes as the weather forecast is for rain both days.

Speaking of rain, Seattle had the second most amount of rain in history today! Kevin’s work and home are both fine since both are atop hills. He said there was a lot of flooding in the area, but nothing that directly affected them…other than standing water on the freeway.

Watched the last episode of Heroes tonight as well as the last Desperate Housewives last night. Both were excellent (as well as cliffhangers) and now we have to wait until who knows when to find out about which characters are still around. And, if the writer’s strike continues much longer, it may be a long time. Somehow I think some kind of settlement will have to be reached or the networks will soon be out of business.

It’s supposed to be in the mid-80’s here tomorrow (huh?) so I’ve got to go dig around and figure out what to wear to work tomorrow. I was just getting used to long sleeves and sweaters.

I was so not ready to get up this morning for a 7 am meeting at work. When that alarm went off at 5:15, I came very close to just hitting the button, turning over and going back to sleep. I tried to go to sleep early last night, but it just didn’t happen. I don’t do well with these random early morning meetings and then trying to function normally throughout the day. I had hoped to leave work early, but an additional 3 meetings (after the one at 7) made it impossible to do that. After a stop at the drugstore on the way home, I finally stumbled in the door at 6 pm. Murphy had been out for almost 13 hours and was very ready to come in. I know he’ll be as ready as I am for this weekend to be here.

I got some decorating done this week, but it’s just too hard to try to do much in the evenings. I work so much better during the daylight hours. So I’ll finish everything up on the inside this weekend. It’s supposed to rain here on Saturday (yay!), so it will be a good time to stay home and get the decorating finished. I thought about getting up early on Saturday to do some shopping, but I think sleeping in would be better. We’ll see how I feel come Saturday.

The reruns have started for about half the primetime tv shows due to the writers’ strike. There have been some Christmas specials to fill the void, but mostly what I’m watching is the Lakers or HGTV. And even that is getting old. I’ll probably just start playing Christmas music this weekend and won’t watch tv at all…except for some football on Saturday.

I’m really hoping that USC wins the Pac-10 and that the Rose Bowl pits USC against Ohio State. That would be a great game and one of the first Rose Bowl games in a long time that would be worth watching. We’ll see. We have to wait to see what happens with this stupid BCS system. Wouldn’t it be great if people cared more about the Rose Bowl game than the BCS championship!

ER is almost over and I can barely keep my eyes open. So it’s off to bed. I think I’ll sleep quite well tonight.

That’s right, I’ve started decorating for Christmas! Why not? I love having all the decorations up so I decided to get going a bit early this year. I know it’s still November, but it is November 25th, one month exactly before Christmas. And I’ve only put up a few things so far. Mostly what I’ve done is clean.

I spent most of the day yesterday cleaning all my carnival glass and Occupied Japan figurines. I pack up all that stuff every year to make room for all the Christmas decorations and I’ve found it’s much nicer to have it all nice and clean after Christmas when I take down the decorations. I’ve tried unpacking and then washing, but that makes for total craziness when I’m trying to put away Christmas in January. So, my dining room table is now filled with nice clean glass and figurines. As I unpack the Christmas stuff I’ll repack the tubs with all my glassware.

I carried in 15 tubs from the garage that are filled with Christmas stuff. I still have the tree and a tub of tree decorations as well as 3 tubs of outdoor decorations in the garage. I plan to do a little at a time each night after work with my goal to have it all finished by next Saturday. On Sunday I’ll decorate the front porch and then will spend the following weekend putting up all the outdoor lights. That will mean I’ll have two full weeks before Christmas to wrap gifts and bake cookies. I’d rather do it this way than to be going crazy at the last minute trying to get everything done in just a few days.

I’m doing most of my shopping online except for a few things I’ve already purchased. I know I’ll have to go out to a store or two over the next few weeks, but I’m hoping to do this at a time when I can easily get in and out. The only place I went on ‘Black Friday’ was to Michael’s, and that was in the middle of the afternoon. Yeah, I could have saved another $5-$10 if I got up early and went before 9 am, but I decided I’d rather sleep in than do that.

And so it’s back to work tomorrow. Yuk. I am certainly not ready. The only good thing is that I still have 4 days of vacation time remaining that I ‘have’ to take before the end of the year. I’m taking 2-1/2 days during the week between Christmas and New Year’s which will give me the entire week off. The other 1-1/2 days will likely be taken on a couple of Fridays and used for what little shopping I’ll need to do or possibly just for a day off.

Malibu is burning again and they just reported a new fire has started somewhere near San Diego. We must have had some really strong winds here last night ’cause my pool is filled with leaves and debris and that didn’t happen in October.

I can’t believe this is happening again. A number of homes have been burned in Malibu already and they are evacuating lots of people ’cause the fire is burning towards lots of homes. I’ll be keeping my eyes and ears open all weekend. Nothing has burned around us for years and the hills above us are ripe for burning.

Just went out front to bring in the newspapers, and noticed my driveway is filled with leaves from my neighbor’s tree. God I hate that tree! The leaves are huge and, when they fall, they are completely dried out and get stuck within or on all my succulent plants along the driveway. A minor problem in the grand scheme of things, what with the fires and all, but nonetheless annoying. It just doesn’t seem fair that a tree in his yard drops the majority of it’s leaves in my driveway, yard and pool.

Started this post this morning, but never finished due to distractions of cooking the turkey and all the fixin’s. Thought I had plenty of time to sit at the computer for a bit, but it didn’t work out that way and before long Patrick and Veronica were here. We had a great Thanksgiving with the traditional meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole and fruit salad ambrosia. We finished off with a wonderful pumpkin cheesecake that Veronica ordered from New York, which was absolutely the best. Thought I’d miss the usual pumpkin pie, but this was fabulous! The turkey was one of the most moist we’ve ever had, and it literally fell off the bones. Great meal and great company–what more could you want?

All the animals enjoyed the day as well. Floyd, Murphy and Loki got a few bites of turkey during cleanup and then they all feasted as I cleaned the meat from the bones and gave them the leftovers. This used to be Darwin’s favorite day of the year when he totally pigged out on all the scraps. None of these guys do him justice. I think Floyd might have been able to polish off everything, but he’s not used to that much people food and we didn’t want him to have ‘intestinal’ problems.

Thought about going to a few of the ‘Black Friday’ sales tomorrow, but have pretty much decided against it. I may head out to Michael’s to pick up a few silk flowers and other stuff to replace all the fall arrangements in the backyard. I don’t really need anything else in the way of decorations. I got a huge bag of decorative Christmas ribbon from a woman that I work with so will try to make up some bows to go with the backyard floral baskets. I do have more rooms to decorate this year since I now have my office and the guest bedroom after cleaning out both rooms last summer so perhaps the ribbon/bows can be used in these rooms. I have about 19-20 crates of Christmas decorations, but I always feel you can never have enough Christmas stuff…so I may get tempted into getting more than orginally planned at Michael’s!

Beyond that, I can’t even imagine going to Target, Best Buy or the dreaded Mall. I’d rather pay a few dollars more than have to do battle with those crowds. There are a wealth of great deals out there, but I can’t handle the craziness. So I’ll stay home (except for Michael’s) and begin to get the house ready for Christmas.

Patrick lit the pilot lights in my heaters tonight so I finally have heat…and just in time. Just watched the news and it’s supposed to get chilly tonight, so it will be nice to have a warm house for a change. It really felt like Thanksgiving weather this morning. It was cold and foggy and seemed like the kind of weather I remember from Ohio. But then it got nice and sunny and warm this afternoon and we had doors and windows open as we enjoyed our dinner. This is one of the big reasons I’m thankful I live in California.

Hope everyone had a great turkey day!

Just realized I haven’t written anything here for about a week. I think that’s a record…except for when I’ve been on vacation! So I guess it’s time to catch up.

Work has been difficult with little time to spend on any one thing. Lots of interruptions has resulted in many things remaining to do and the end of the year is rapidly approaching. While I’m looking forward to having an extra long weekend this week (Yay 4 days in a row off!), I’m hopeful that next week will result in getting lots done before all the holiday craziness sets in. So far I have 3 work parties to attend between now and Christmas. And then there’s trying to figure out how I’m going to take off my remaining 4 days of vacation before the end of the year. It looks like the audit will finally be completed by the end of November, but the auditors have told me they want to start in on the 2007 audit in February…aarrgghh!!! No doubt I’ll be happy to have it all finished next summer, but starting in again after just finishing 2006 is not something I’m anticipating with joy.

Patrick and Veronica will be here for Thanksgiving dinner. I’ve got all the fixings purchased and just have to put it all together. Will probably do some chopping of onions and celery for the stuffing tomorrow night as well as shredding the bread. The turkey doesn’t seem to be thawing very fast in the fridge (I’ve had it in there since Sunday morning) so I sat it out on the counter tonight where I’ll leave it until I go to bed. I need to have it ready tomorrow night to go into the brine mixture but I can always let it soak in water for a few hours tomorrow night if necessary. Veronica is bringing pumpkin cheesecake which means I don’t have to do any pie-baking. Nice.

Last week a Kohl’s store opened about 10 min. away from my house. This is a really good thing…and a really bad thing. I love this store. I went there last Saturday and bought tons of clothes at unbelievable prices. I’d love to go to their day after Thanksgiving sale, but think I’m going to restrain myself even though I now have a Kohl’s charge card with a $1,500 limit.

I bought 4 new pairs of pants last week that just fit. No extra room for expansion. I saw something on tv this morning that said the typical Thanksgiving dinner was about 5,000 calories. I think I need to spend Black Friday exercising rather than shopping or I won’t be able to fit into all my new pants!

The game (Pirates of the Burning Sea) that Kevin has been working on for the past five years is finally available in stores for pre-sale. The actual release will happen in late January, but it’s a big step for the company to have the pre-release on shelves in stores. And I’m so proud of Kevin. He designed integral parts of this game and the initial reviews are really good.

Robin is now 3 months old and is starting to do lots of fun things. He now smiles lots and has figured out that he has hands. He hasn’t yet realized that he can use his hands to grab stuff, but I’m sure it won’t be long. I’m hopeful I’ll be able to make another trip to Seattle in February after all my year-end stuff is finished at work. I know it will still be rainy and cold then but I’ll just have to stay inside and play with that little guy. He’ll be 6 months old then so he should be lots of fun.

My front yard looks beautiful right now with all the winter grass taking hold…except for the giant hole in the tree lawn where the gas company has dug things up to put in a new gas main. They’re doing our entire street and I’m hopeful they have the work completed before the Holiday Light-Up begins in 2-1/2 weeks. The timing on this really wasn’t well planned.

I guess that’s it on catching up. I’m sure there’s more I haven’t mentioned, but I’m tired and ready to soak in a hot bath.

This morning Murphy woke me at about 4 am for a pee break. This is unusual, and I wasn’t real receptive to letting him out. But I also wasn’t real excited about having to clean up his ‘accident.’ So I headed off to the back door. Since the temps are rather mild right now, I went outside to wait for him to do his thing. And that’s when I looked up in the sky and saw it–this huge gigantic star! It was at least 5 times bigger than any star I had ever seen before. While it was kind of scary to see this huge thing in the sky, it was also fascinating and spectacular to gaze upon. However, it was 4 am and I was not ready to stay up for the day, so I headed back to bed with Murphy racing off ahead of me to his bed.

Later when it was the real time to get up, I got online to see if I could find out anything about this gigantic star I had seen. Turns out it was a comet named Holmes Comet…and it has exploded! That’s what is causing it to be so huge. Apparently it will be visible for the next couple of weeks, or possibly a month. Some reports say that it’s beginning to form a tail which would be even more astonishing to see.

I’ve gone outside every half hour or so tonight, but have yet to see it again. Possibly it is only visible in the early morning hours. I don’t know. I’m going to set my alarm for 4 am and will get up then to see if I can see it again. It is that spectacular that I’m willing to get up in the middle of the night to try to see it. Right now I can see Mars in the eastern sky and I remember that Mars was almost directly overhead early this morning, so I think the comet probably has yet to appear. I wish I had a camera that could take a picture of all this, but don’t think my digital camera is that powerful.

Keep your eyes on the skies. It is so worth seeing this unbelievable display of heavenly beauty.

I walked into a nice clean house tonight! I spent most of the weekend (except for the time visiting with Mary, Patrick & Veronica) cleaning. There’s still a bit more to do, but most of the house looks really good and it was so nice to walk in the front door after work and not see stacks of ‘stuff’ piled up on most of the available surfaces in the house.

I spent a lot of time in my office on Saturday. I really don’t know how my desk and the table behind the desk wound up so full of paper. I think part of it had to do with all the working from home that I did during the month of October. As a result, I didn’t sort mail except for what I really needed. The rest got stacked up everywhere. Most of it was junk that needed to be tossed, but a lot also needed to be shredded. How nice to have that all cleaned up. I’m really going to try to stay on top of the junk mail from now on…or at least until the next project comes along where I don’t have time to deal with the mail.

After all that productivity at home, I went into work today and got tons of stuff done there. So much so that I am almost completely caught up on all my regular work. The audit stuff will be finished by the end of the week and I’m then planning to start in early on a lot of the year end stuff. Usually my office is stacked up everywhere during January and February since I haven’t had time to set up new files for the new year. I am going to do my best to have more of a ‘normal’ January this year. Last year I wound up with stress headaches almost every day and I don’t want to go through that again. Having an administrative assistant to help me really makes a big difference. Thank you, Anthony!

Mary (wife of my brother Tom) was in San Diego for a work training session last week and stayed over this weekend to visit her family members to the north, and then stopped by this afternoon to spend a little time with me. Patrick and Veronica came by for dinner and we had a great time visiting. Unfortunately she could only stay for a few hours since she is flying out of San Diego tomorrow morning to head back to Wisconsin. But it was really nice to get to spend a few hours with her. I wish all these family members didn’t live so far away. I didn’t recognize how great it was when they were still living in California until they moved.

Glad you had a few hours to spend with us, Mary. We really enjoyed seeing you!

Brett and Summer lost their twin girls late last night. She was a little over 4 months pregnant and had a miscarriage. I’m so distressed by all this bad news. Two miscarriages over two days is just too much. I feel so bad for all these parents-to-be who now have to try again. It’s just so sad that all of them who really wanted these children won’t be having babies in the spring. There really are no words to express how they all must feel tonight.

Kelly called last night to say that her daughter, Mandy, had lost her baby. She was about 12 weeks pregnant. They were all so excited about this pregnancy and it’s sad to know we won’t have another new little baby joining the family in the spring. I’m hopeful Mandy gets through all this without too many problems. I’m sure another baby will be in her future. Just not now.

That’s the name of a movie that’s being filmed at All Saints. It stars Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich and is being directed by Clint Eastwood. I saw the two stars today, but missed seeing Clint. They’ll all be back tomorrow for more filming, so I’m hopeful I’ll get a glimpse of him then.

Angelina is really little and skinny and has unbelievably big lips. I guess she’s pretty, but she was wearing so much makeup that it was hard to tell. John Malkovich was good looking but he, too, was wearing tons of makeup.

It’s been kind of fun having this going on, but I’m not getting a lot of work done as a result. Oh well. It’s only one more day and then I’ll be back to same old, same old.

We’re not allowed to take pictures of any of the stars, but I took a lot of the sets they made as well as the old cars on the street. The movie takes place in the 1920’s so the sets were filled with great antiques. Check out the pictures in my new photo gallery under The Changeling.

Vanessa’s dog, Pixel, is visiting for the weekend. Vanessa and her boyfriend, Rick, are in town to visit family and friends and Pixel is here to spend the weekend with Murphy. It really works out well since Pixel has been here many times previously and likes to hang out with Murphy. If I have to go anywhere I can put both of them out back where they run around/lay around and bark at anyone who dares to come near my house. Pixel thinks he’s on vacation since there’s also an unlimited supply of food and treats!

My gardener stopped by today to spread winter grass seed and manure all over the front lawn. P-U! It will be rather smelly out there for a week or so, but the nice green grass all winter will be worth it. Last year we were working on the Christmas street decorations when this happened. I am sooo glad to have my weekends and evenings free this year to do whatever I want to do. It was great to have the new decorations last year, but I’m very grateful this won’t be happening again anytime soon.

Took down the Halloween decorations today, but will leave up all the Fall stuff until the weekend after Thanksgiving…and then it will be time to start in on the Christmas stuff. Am going to try to do a lot of the inside stuff that weekend (other than the tree) and then do the outside lights, wreaths, etc. the first weekend in December. We have to have the street decorations and lights up by 12/8, so this will give me almost 3 weekends to get it all finished. And then I can relax…and bake cookies, and go shopping, and wrap presents, etc, etc, etc!

When I think about all this, I guess it really isn’t too early for all the Christmas ads that have started on tv.

The pictures from last night’s party are loaded. They’re in my new photo gallery link at the left…Halloween 2007. Enjoy!

I got home from work a bit early and started picking up the house a bit for Patrick’s annual Halloween screening of “Dead Alive.” As I took a bag of recyclables out to the can, I noticed the yard waste can was FILLED with branches…and the gardener wasn’t due here until tomorrow. Then, as I walked back through the backyard, I noticed the destruction. My night-blooming jasmine bush had been chopped way back, and not done nicely. I walked back to the trash cans and realized the yard waste can as well as the regular trash can were both filled to overflowing with branches from the night-blooming jasmine.

The only person who was here today was the pool guy. The jasmine had grown quite large and was leaning over the pool. It seems he felt that was not a good thing and took it upon himself to trim it way back. It was still blooming and I had specifically told my gardener not to trim it until it was finished blooming, so I was relatively certain it wasn’t him. Thus, the pool guy is the culprit.

I just can’t imagine why he would have done this on his own without consulting me. Of late it seems he causes me more work every time he does anything. The last time he cleaned the filters it took me half a day to clean up the mess he left. And now this. I called his voicemail and left a nasty message, letting him know he is NEVER to trim any of my plants and that I am paying him only to clean and maintain my pool, not deal with anything else in my yard. It looks like I’m going to have to empty both cans and spend Saturday morning chopping up the branches so that they will all fit in one can. As it is right now, I will have no room for any regular trash unless I do some major consolidation. I would hate to get rid of the pool guy, but he is really testing my patience.

After this nasty Halloween trick I received a wonderful treat that calmed me down and made me smile. Check out Soula’s website link on the right and you will see the cutest little Halloween pumpkin ever! Oh how I miss that little guy. I need to figure out when I can make another trip to Seattle.

Lots of Patrick’s friends showed up (most in great costumes!) for his party tonight at my house. And so another treat awaited me as I spent the evening visiting with lots of old friends. My family room was turned into a media room, with a large screen (sheet) mounted over the back windows. We had people in the back yard, family room, dining room and kitchen. I think everyone had a good time and mostly what I did was visit. No cooking, just putting out some chips and dip, and cutting up some apples for dipping into some caramel. It was a fun night and I’m looking forward to another get together around Christmas.

So Happy Halloween to all. The treats made up for the one trick…and at least the jasmine will grow back.

That’s what the small box said as it popped up on my email screen and began devouring all my saved messages! I noticed that about half my messages were gone when I opened my email and tried to find a message from a few days ago. Then, when I tried to move one of the messages that still remained, this box popped up and the messages just started disappearing!

I called Patrick and he told me to immediately turn off my computer. Then he came over and deleted a couple of spyware programs and installed something that would keep spyware off for good. He couldn’t find the virus program, but all the emails reappeared after he restarted the system. I just hope that no one was able to scan anything and retrieve any sensitive information. I’ll just have to keep checking to make sure no one has stolen anything where they can access any of my accounts.

Meanwhile, I sent emails to lots of people telling them to start using my gmail address. And, even though I thought I was being pretty careful, I won’t open any attachment unless I’m certain what it is. Somehow some asshole was able to gain access to my system and it scared me enough that I’ll no longer take any chances. I thought I was safe since I had McAfee installed, but I guess these jerks are able to figure ways to bypass whatever security system you have.

I still don’t understand why anyone does this sort of thing. Why spend all that time doing something that is so harmful? It will never make sense to me.

Click on Soula’s website link for a new picture of Robin. She has it posted in her blog. Just click on the picture for a full screen shot. He is so adorable! What a cutie!

Meanwhile, back in Southern California, some of the fires are still burning while some of them are almost fully contained. Last night the smoke from one/some of them blew in over the entire San Gabriel Valley where I live. The smell was nasty and I could tell it was getting more difficult breathing. The moon rose and it was orange due to all the smoke in the sky. This morning my car was covered with a light dusting of ashes. My house is 25-30 miles away from the nearest fire. I can’t imagine what it must be like for those in the middle of it.

I’m totally absorbed by these fires, watching a variety of tv stations, depending on who’s covering them. I keep going outside, checking to be sure I can’t see flames anywhere or smell anything burning. Fortunately, all I can see is a clear night sky with an almost full moon up above. And all I can smell is the night-blooming jasmine that has decided to bloom non-stop all fall.

It is unbelievably warm outside. I went out back in my pajamas (short ones) and could have sat out there for as long as I wanted and not feel cold. I’m guessing the temperature must still be in the 70’s. However, the humidity is really low. I took a bath and washed my hair around 7:30 pm. By 8 pm, my hair was completely dry! It is no wonder everything is burning so quickly.

It’s just amazing to see the devastation in some of the neighborhoods. Tonight they are showing regular neighborhoods like mine–not the multi-million-dollar mansions in Malibu. They showed one area that reminded me of the Arrowhead development in Xenia, Ohio after the tornado went through there back in the 70’s. One house was completely wiped out, nothing but a pile of rubble and ashes. And yet the house right next door looked like it hadn’t been touched. It’s hard to understand how that can happen.

The announcement just came that another new fire has started–the Magic Fire. It’s right next to the Magic Mountain amusement park just north of LA. There are now 3 fires in that area that they anticipate could merge into one giant fire. This brings the total number of fires up to 15.

Tomorrow we’re supposed to get some huge tanker planes sent in by the feds as well as firefighters from Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado. National Guard troops are being pulled off border patrol and sent in to help. Who cares if we get illegals coming across the border! We’re going to need those undocumented workers to help these people rebuild!