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Awoke to find a defense of "woman born women" spaces on a list this morning. I hear the pain, the claim of "i've been hurt and i need this privilege, i deserve the right to exclude others." Someone else spoke well to the generational difference and whether younger woman should be excluded from those spaces as well as they hadn't experienced the same type of injustice in their youth. I ponder if, what i should say, remaining troubled.

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I turn to reading about earthquakes and tsunami. The moon is near full (Feb 28 16:39 UTC, 6:39 HST), which means a stronger tide, a spring tide and -- let me check -- lunar perigee is Feb 27 21:41 UTC, 11:41 HST, that would be today -- which means a stronger tide as well.

The Hawaii warning states, "THE ESTIMATED ARRIVAL TIME IN HAWAII OF THE FIRST TSUNAMI WAVE IS 1119 AM HST SAT 27 FEB 2010"

2010-02-27 08:54 HST -0.01 feet Low Tide
2010-02-27 14:30 HST 1.91 feet High Tide
2010-02-27 20:30 HST -0.45 feet Low Tide
2010-02-28 03:04 HST 2.78 feet High Tide

Could be arriving at a worse time. Looks like the tsunami will arrive rise of the weaker cycle of a mixed tide. Not sure how this Hilo Bay prediction relates to the rest of Hawaii.

For the coastal area of CA where i live, the predictions have been increasing. It was "less than a foot" over night, to "locally up to two feet" and now in the all-caps of the email:

AT THIS TIME WAVE HEIGHTS ARE FORECAST TO BE LOCALLY UP TO TWO AND A HALF FEET. FOR ARRIVAL TIMES AT ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS SEE WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV

The latest post gives: Half Moon Bay, CA 0.8M/2.6 FT

Best i can estimate from the 10:34 PM Pacific quake time and the travel-times map, we're roughly 14 hours away and so the waves arrive at noon. ETA: "The weather service is advising everyone in coastal counties to stay away from beaches and shorelines this afternoon when a tsunami producing strong currents and a series of potentially dangerous waves is expected to hit the coast at around 1:20 p.m."

"The magnitude 9.5 earthquake in Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, resulted in a 1.6-meter (5.2-foot) wave that reached Santa Monica about 14 hours after the earthquake (http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/web_tsus/19600522/runups.htm)."[here] Currently the prediction for Santa Monica is 3.3 feet.

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Two of my last public posts have attracted comments from total strangers on LJ. thirtysomething and the misspelled version of kyriarchical attract attention?

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Must get the monthly report written.

What i sent to my boss with the tedious monthly report

Things more interesting than completing the monthly report:

* getting numbers together to refute a "are we having more earthquakes than usual" question
* responding to someone who thinks we're related based on the Y-DNA testing of my grandfather and explaining that our most recent common ancestor is most likely before 1600 (and before last names were in use).
* watching the third DVD on National Parks
* watching Greycie Loo chase bugs and play with Edward
* getting copies of the wage gauge plots for Santa Monica, Monterey, and a Hawaiian bay
* reading the Prop 8 case's plantif's proposed "statement of fact" and wondering how the Proponents of Prop 8 could put forth the so-called expert they put forth,
* starting and crashing Citrix (this can't be due to load)
* writing this list
* being glad i'm not going to Dublin over my birthday (that only occured to me at this moment while i was recognizing that i manage to procrastinate a beautiful Saturday away)
* hoping you have a good trip to Dubin!