Perfect Storm

I was out driving today when a big storm hit. For some reason I really like driving in a storm. It makes me giddy. I saw a couple lightning strikes not too far away. I had a craving for a tuna sub on wheat, but it was raining too hard and I didn't feel like getting wet. Later I was standing in the living room and watching the rain, while thinking how nice it all was. Thunder rumbled every few seconds. It was only noon, but it was so dark it looked to be late evening. It put me in mind of the archetypal storm you recall from childhood.. when you were stuck indoors, watching the rain fall and waiting for it to stop so you could go play. When you grow up, a rainy day is a good reason to stay inside and snuggle. Evil people can snuggle, too!

Just went for a walk and it was muggy, but a lot cooler than it has been for a while. There was a pretty blue and pale pink sunset. A toad crossed my path. That's good luck.

Smiling under gray clouds

Had a good party last night. Lots of talk, food, got to do a little beating. Good stuff.

The weather is odd at the moment. It's been super hot.. over 100 the past week. Right now it's in the evening and still 97. But it's strange out because there's a rumbly gray stormcloud overhead, but the sun is still shining from the west, so the trees are all bright and sunny under a gray sky. Couple of days ago it was pouring rain while still all sunny. Foxes hold their marriages on days like that, you know.

Global warming made my azaleas wilt!

Turtle Redux

This morning I went to take my trash can out to the curb, and sitting there behind it was that same baby turtle. Thinking that being in the middle of a spacious concrete patio is no place for a baby turtle, I took him and placed him under some shady railroad ties in the backyard, some 30 feet away.

Just now, as I put the trashcan back, I saw him again, back in the same place! Why is a baby turtle so interested in a patio that's bereft of organic life? I figured if he crawled all that way back, he must really like it there, so I didn't move him again. Some critters. Sheesh.

Finished writing a little story-ish kind of thing. A sort of horror-comedy satire on the care and keeping of pet zombies. It was just a funny idea I had and I went with it. I was pretty happy with it and it made me laugh, though I suspect it might be a touch on the disturbing side. Ah well.

Teensy Tortoise

Only a few minutes ago, I went out to move the sprinkler.  It's still hot and dry.  Below the hose faucet, I found a micro-turtle!  A tiny, baby turtle come out to drink from the faucet drippings.  Too cute!  I wonder what it eats?

Been a While

I know I haven't written anything, but there just haven't been a huge amount of write-worthy things.  And when there are, I just haven't felt like writing.  I've been laaazy. 

It's been really hot here.  Of course, it's summer, and a certain amount of heat is to be expected.  Some rain would be nice.  Probably put on a pound or two just because it's too hot for any outdoor activity.  Even at night!  It's better to just lurk indoors with all the shades drawn.  The cicadas are having a blast, though.

I've had to deal with a spat of fakes lately.  That's left me feeling rather frustrated and upset.  And when I get like that, I get reclusive.

I finally got the new cage.. yay!  It's nice and sturdy.  It doesn't have much head room, but it's long and great to stretch out in.  Someone could stay in there for a nice, long while, I think.

Speaking of photos, sometimes I like to step outside and take photos of sunrises (I'm often up at that time of day).  Usually they come out terribly blurry, but sometimes I get a few good ones.  Here's a few from the past months:

Yikes

Took a nap that went on too long. Had a dream of auditioning for a tv show or something like that that lasted a while, then it turned into me standing outside of my house. I saw a glow on the horizon that turned into a mushroom cloud. It kept getting closer and closer and I ran inside. Kept expecting it to come, but there wasn't any sound or anything. I checked back outside and there was a huge, water-filled crater like all the way up to my doorstep. I could see some of the buildings downtown poking out of the water. Oddly, the power was still on, as well as the internet connection, so I typed in a room something like 'Wow, a nuclear bomb went off, I'll bbl'. I got my mom out of bed to show her what had happened. We saw strange-looking, clear tornados overhead, but they didn't do anything. There was an army medical station that had been set up down the street, and I asked them if there was a radiation danger. They said yes, but wouldn't tell me exactly how much. Then a nurse made some off-color joke concerning radiation sickness and my brain must've thought 'Alright, enough of that,' and I woke up.

Still slightly disoriented, I turned on the tv and there was one of those plastic surgery shows on. This one featured a transsexual getting facial surgery I need, yet fear. It was all quite gruesome. So this evening is just chock-full of anxiety.

Ooh, the pain! Oh, the pain of it all!

That's my Dr.Smith impression. I had another laser thing. Oh my god. I wept freely. It was all I could to do not leap out of the chair and start using the thing on my torturer- I mean, the nurse. AAAAH! Holy cow, that was the worst yet. Hot knife through flesh. I sure hope it works this time.

At least I finished the casette tape project. Yay!

Just got back from watching the fireworks. A friend knows a friend who can get us on top of a tall apartment building downtown, right next to the bridge the fireworks are launched from. It's quite noisy. It always reminds me of the time I was a child and we were going back to our car after a show.. it started pouring down rain. The torrent washed loose one of my flipflops and it went floating rapidly away down the street, never to be seen again. Strange chain of thought moment: You know how sometimes you're walking along the street, and there's a lone shoe sitting in the street or on the sidewalk. Who did those shoes belong to? Was someone just strolling along and decided they didn't need their left shoe anymore? Did it fall off their foot while they were too preoccupied to notice? I wonder.