Manic Kitty

Planned on a quiet day off, crocheting, and doing nothing. Instead just been reading news reports.

Porl had his gig night that he organized last night, it went well, nerves at the start of the night when no one was there, then a few people showed up, no where near as many as hoped, but people relaxed and seemed to enjoy it. The 3 guys up from London were staying at ours overnight, so we eventually got home, had some food, a bit of a chat and went to bed at about 3.
This morning got up, played with cats, and a kitten which is trying to adopt us, cooked a fry up, chatted more, the guys left at about 12:30, porl went upstairs to go online, and Jimmy told him to check the news. I've been wach the news and reading reports ever since, feeling terrible because we don't know how to get in touch with the guys to find out if they've switched the radio on. Or if like most musicians are listen to CD's.

I'm half thinking about going into work. I'm responsible for dealing with and logging all the faults on customers phone lines over the next fortnight. My boss was to keep everything ticking over today while I was off. He's going to be swamped. The mobiles networks have been switched off as a precaution due to some of the Madrid bombs being triggered by mobile phones, they're also trying to free capacity up for Emergency Services to use. This is having a knock on effect on the Landlines which are also running at near capacity. I suspect they'll also be a fair amount of damage to lines too.
I don't think it's not worth me going in. It takes me an hour to get there, and BT will only work on most of our faults until 5. But I'll be busy tomorrow.

I'm not good about posting thoughts and feeling on here, so I won't except to say feeling numb and angry. Also grateful again that I live in Britain and not the US. All British news agencies are being very careful to only state what they know regarding casualties etc. The casualties are likely to be high, but news agencies here are so far only stating 2 confirmed dead, unlike CNN who are currently saying 45, and Fox who are saying 90, (Fox have also said there have been 3 buses explode, and that Michael Howard is the Mayor of London.)
There's still a lot of confusion though, most places are saying 7 explosions, but Charles Clarke has confirmed to the House of Commons 4 explosions (3 on tubes, one on a bus). Mixed reports may be from people being evacuated from different stations, and the original explosions were blamed on power surges, there will have been power outages so these may be what other people heard.

I feel numb, I'm going back to the news, need to digest.

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