the sick leading the blind

Today I didn't learn whether or not I have to leave town. There's something horrible outside, and it started showing up March 22nd. It blew away when we had an east wind, but now we haven't had one for a week or so. It is ok in my house most of the time, but sometimes it's not, and sometimes it's my fault for fiddling with the air handling system.

One woman here in town is absolutely 100% confident that it's coming from the Air Force base, but no one knows how to get anything straight out of them. The air quality department does the very best it knows how, but from an EI's perspective, putting non-EIs in charge of that is like putting a bunch of visually impaired people in charge of an art gallery full of paintings. They know there are paintings, but they can only figure out what they are by reading the descriptions, assuming somebody put Braille on there. (Which is not to imply I know what chemical this is, but PDEQ is in no position to even confirm there is a chemical.)

On top of the whatever, there is now a very exciting pollen season going on, so if I want to get out of the whatever, I have to contend with the pollen. Last week all I had to do was get a little outside of town over some hills, but now if I want to leave the house, it'll be a long drive.