D.O.P.-T. (day before yesterday)

It's been hot - unhealthy particulate and ozone levels, in fact. I put some seeds in both a bed and some large pots, but I don't know how much will come up. The baby beanstalks are getting chewed on.

D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

The people who bought the house that used to have chickens put a little potted tomato plant on their front patio, then apparently went away for a week before Memorial Day. It wilted and started to fry. I finally put a half-filled watering can between my legs as the housemate drove us on some errand, she stopped at the corner, and I jumped out, popped their gate open, ran in and doused the poor thing. Must have looked freaky on the surveillance video, but it worked - the thing looks yellowish and tatty but its tomatoes are all ripening.

D.O.P.-T.

We both had books put on hold by the San Jose Main / San Jose State University library (Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Library, it has its own Wikipedia entry), so we did an unplanned trip over there. I put in enough quarters for a whole hour and had a list in my back pocket. So we got there at a little after noon and found the library closed up tight, and a large and fretful but patient crowd on the patio at the top of the front steps. There was a sign about an early closing yesterday for staff training, but nothing about today. No one in authority was visible. We found a lady who'd been there since 9:30 and said an alarm had gone off and they'd evacuated the place, but no word since. At my suggestion the housemate tried to find the library's Twitter account using her cellphone, but all they have is one for the entire city library system, with almost no tweets. Someone else supported the alarm statement, specifying fire alarm and that the problem was they couldn't trace the cause. So we set off around the building to the book drop on the campus side. On the patio on that side, the waiting patrons were younger on average, and almost outnumbered by people in orange emergency worker vests, who readily substantiated that yes, it was a fire alarm and there was no way of knowing how long it would be before the all-clear. In front of the doors, police were taking notes from a facilities worker. Oh, and the book drop had been removed, so we had to go back to the ones at kerbside.

Nothing whatsoever online, though fire alarms do apparently happen there. (My suspicion is that this one was triggered by the heat or air pollution; though it could also be an overloaded air-conditioning system. If it were a ciggy in a bathroom, they would have found it fast.) Major fail, MLK Library and San Jose State, and weird that the biggest public library in Silly Valley is so out of the tweet loop.

Edit: The university library half of the operation has a Twitter account of its own, but nothing much there either (though I like the bunny). Google of course failed to show that on search.