Weather report

6:30 am. Boston. 86 F (30 C). (Which means Brighton is about 88, maybe already 89F, or 31-31.5C.)

7:12 am. The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC, which has just been approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as the nation's Electricity Reliability Organization (ERO)) just had a representative on NPR, talking about our electricity reliability in general, and NY in particular.

ETA:

I'll be reading today, I think, once I'm done catching up with the news here online. Fortunately, I have lots to read. Two books on Buddhism (Insight Meditation, by Joseph Goldstein, and Dhammapada, translated by Thomas Cleary), John Mortimor's Rumpole and the Angel of Death. A Journal article (with my Editor hat on). Various other things.

I may knit. I may knot (tat). I may stick my head in the freezer.

ETA, later:

12:31pm. 96F (35.5C). 96 and Rising, at the Boston Globe. My AccuWeather.com thingy the Mac talks to says 93F (33.8C) for both Boston and Brighton, but AccuWeather.com itself says 95F (35C). That's without the humidity. Up to 101F is predicted.

With the humidity (48%) it's more like 104F (40C) right now, according to AW's "RealFeel" doohickey.

I've been reading Rumpole, and napping, since I got about 5 hours of sleep, and keeping an eye on my cats. G seems fine, P is shedding furiously, but does not seem to be in distress.

ISO New England, by the way, quoted in the article, is an Independent System Operators association in this region. It is a member of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council, which is a regional electricity reliability council.

FERC (federal)
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NERC (multi-regional-ish but now with federal stuff b/c of being the ERO for the country)
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8 electricity reliability councils (of which the NPCC is one -- the idea is that within each region, the council works to promote electricity reliabity in that region. What's important to understand is that electric networks are like rivers -- they don't care about geo-political boundaries. States aren't generally self-sufficient. A regional association was formed here in 1966 after a big blackout in '65, to keep everyone working together who were connected already in terms of their electricity networks.)
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Utilities, power generators, electricity transmission network operators, etc.


These organizations grew from the bottom up, basically, and have become codified over time (which is how NERC is now an ERO) by various legislation.


ETA even later:

5:15pm. Brighton. 98F (36.5C). Humidity down to 39%, so the full-effect temp's gone down to 99F (37C). So, we're body temperature.

Tagged for a meme

by shiningmoon

Rules: if you're tagged you must list 6 random facts about yourself, then tag 6 people to do this meme.

1. I actually had another human being in my apartment today, of my own free will. (Well, mostly of my own free will.)

2. I own Star Wars: TPM action figures. The Obi-wan and Qui-Gon figures are climbing up my bookcase together. 'Cause they're, like, poseable and stuff, so one is helping the other up onto the next shelf. My Amidala is just standing there looking pretty, because that's all she can do. Bo-ring.

3. The elder of the kids on the second floor had surgery yesterday on his nose. There's a language barrier, so we're not sure what it was he was having the surgery to fix.

4. I had jury duty yesterday.

5. For someone who sucks at sewing, I own a lot of fabric.

6. I stopped wearing my school ring (from college) for several months, which I've worn, every day, for over 10 years, and then, equally abruptly, put it back on about a month ago.

Tagging: whomever wants to be tagged. Even if it's more than 6 of you. Because I'm that way.