Word of the Day

Carbopause: 1. Having to wait for the carbonation to go down before you can continue to pour a soda. 2. The amount of time most people remain on a low/no carbohydrate diet.

We're Alive! I'm back on the "Cry Wolf" soapbox when it comes to these weather alerts. We had a ton of them yesterday. We even had a TORNADO WARNING for the county here at The Lake. One of the weathermen finally explained it. They err on the side of caution. No-one wants to be the guy that, oops, failed to warn someone about a possible tornado. That happened one summer a couple of years ago. There was a tornado, or a bunch of them, that took out part of the town of Siren. Siren's tornado sirens were out of order. The sirens in Siren weren't working. No-one knew that there were tornadoes? Well, yes, for the most part they did. They're locals. We're locals. You KNOW when the weather is bad...unless you're working in some windowless office somewhere, at which point, you're where you should be anyway in case of a tornado...unless your office is a windowless mobile home. Mobile homes have a homing device built into their skeletal structure that actually attracts tornadoes.

HTP was out in the weather yesterday. He joined half the population of Wheeler as they lined the streets, watching for tornadoes. He took pictures of the wall clouds to bring home. Sigh. No tornado. People out here aren't really afraid of tornadoes. Oh...we respect them. We keep a cautious eye out for them, but we know what to do and when to do it. No one wants to deal with the destruction but we live in an area where tornadoes happen. Some people live in areas where hurricanes happen. I'm not sure if I'd want to deal with that but it's better then living on the slope of a volcano. It's better then living in an earthquake zone or on a hill that you just know will wash into the sea. Tornadoes happen. Damage happens. You just learn to do what you can to minimize it. The thing to do is celebrate when it misses you and pitch in if it hurts your neighbors.

Murphyism of the Day

Walker's Law of the Household

There is always more laundry than clean laundry.