Wednesday, October 31, 2007

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

On my walk to work this morning I saw a fat dog dressed in a Superman/Superdog costume. Made my day.

The Mel Wire said...

Angelina Joleary - Earthquake report?

Anonymous said...

That dog looks like he's saying, " this is f*cking humiliating". Dogs = Not Humans.

Anonymous said...

All quiet on the western front with respect to the earthquake.

I honestly had no idea one had even occurred until I came into work this morning and people were talking about it. My apartment is on a bedrock base at the top of a hill, and consequently I didn't feel a damn thing.

Co-workers who live in the Marina section of town (landfill base) reported a significant amount of shaking for between 10-20 seconds - summarized by one as being roughly equivalent to a person on the floor above her repeatedly dropping a grand piano - but not enough to cause any damage. Overall, it's business as usual in the city, with all utilities and public transportation apparently fine and no major problems to speak of.

Mel, you may recall my excited phone call from this past July when a baby 4.6 rolled through during my apartment search. I'm actually looking forward to experiencing a reasonably-sized earthquake at some point. There's something I find strangely compelling about the inexorable movement of the Earth's plates and its effect on the humans who attempt to live in the midst of that upheaval.

What this says about my mental state is another issue altogether, I suppose, but a man can dream, can't he?

The Mel Wire said...

Really, who throws around a piano.