Perspective

Wow.

170,000 acres of land has been effectively burned to ash in Northern California. The air quality in the Bay Area matches that of Beijing.

That is to say: it's pretty awful.

When I go outside, it smells of wood smoke. The smell is everywhere. It's in the underground stations of BART. It's in the office buildings. There is just no escaping it.

And those of us who just have to deal with that are the lucky ones.

All those people displaced. Their homes and belongings destroyed. Their lives upturned, and in some cases, lost.

Fucking hell. I'm not whining about my microwave again.