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Irma ask you to stop kicking me; thanks, kid.

Obviously this blogging business isn't my ticket to fortune or fame. Too bad about the first, but okay about the latter, I suppose. Nevertheless, this corner of the interwebs is still up and I just felt like saying hello to the singular person who might bother to read this post. Hey, you! As I write this, we are getting back to normal after Hurricane Irma. When I say "we," I mean my pocket of Florida. The damage caused in other areas of the state as well as the Caribbean islands is, simply, heartbreaking, not to mention what the areas of Texas affected by Hurricane Harvey are still dealing with weeks on. But here, in the panhandle of Florida, we fared better than expected. What we expected was a repeat of 2016's Hurricane Hermine, after which some of us were without power for a week, and the roads were blocked with trees, and many power lines were down. As Irma approached and the information about it constantly updated, we decided to stay put. We had prepare