That's ok. I thought it too!

Now someone's driving the wrong way on the 405?!?! And a brush fire is threatening a friend's house!!


Can we just have a do-over of the last 24 hours???




Wait, can you make that the last two weeks, God, Sir, Please!

I am making cookies. My mom will be 71 tomorrow. Since I am very short on funds, I am making her favorite cookie, chocolate chip-butter cookies (think shortbread cookie with chocolate chips). I also made some molasses crackle cookies (more like ginger snaps).

Since I am on soft foods, I made sure that I had cookie dough for dinner.

Today's craziness was bookended by bizzaro antics in our complex's "street" (the road that runs around the inside perimeter of the complex for garage and parking stall access).

First, on my way out the door to work I hit my garage door opener....*thwack*...There's some utility crew digging up the pavement and they've parked one of their pickups in front of my garage. Don't think they even noticed it happened. I had to go out and get their attention. They promptly moved their truck out of the way. Except they moved the one that was not in front of my garage, despite me saying "garage" twice and pointing directly at the truck I was talking about. It's moments like these I really appreciate my boss's lax eye when it comes to precise arrival time).

Anyway, now when I got home, I turned onto our stretch of that same road and I see a giant ass moving truck. Full on Enterprise tractor trailer. Why anyone would need a tractor trailer to move into this place is beyond me. But hey, whatever, it wasn't in front of my garage and there was room on one side to pass. I'll just let that dude pass first...that dude right there who's stopping...right next to the trailer, forming a now 3-vehicle wide (there was already someone parked on the other side) road block, and giving me the "one second" sign.

Dude proceeds to challenge the very fabric of space and time with his definition of "1 second" as he opens his trunk, removes a box and disappears inside his condo's back gate. Only to return moments later...and produce a second box, proceeded by an altogether presumptuous raising of his index finger, indicating that, yes, he knew full well that his initial "one second" was an outright lie and oh by the way, here's another one. Surely he meant it the second time!

Yeah, I wasn't going to wait to find out, I backed out to drive the 1/4 mile lap around the other way. Sure enough before I finished turning around I spotted him reaching for box #3. But whatever, a 30 second delay reaching my garage isn't the end of the world. And hey, if I translate into that dude's definition of a second, it'd be somewhere around 1.7 nanosecons. Who can get upset about 1.7 nanoseconds?

Something felt very offkilter today.

Just to expand on that:

I'm no believer in "earthquake weather", but it's the kinda day that makes you think. I mean, a huge amount of energy is involved, before during and after, the earth is literally vibrating long after we stop feeling. I wouldn't be surprised if that were enough to add just enough chaos into the social machinery to throw those little matters of timing and convenience temoprarily get derailed.

Indeed.

I once wondered the same thing when one showed up at our complex. I mean there wasn't an apartment bigger than 800 sq. ft. in the place.

Turns out it was a mass operation. One truck did something like 15 places and then delivered all of the contents. Apparently it works out when the movers don't need their stuff in a new place at the quickest possible moment.

Most of our guests were pleased to have experienced an earthquake.

I always wondered what would happen if a tram went into the Earthquake attraction, then a massive earthquake struck outside, and they drove outside to all sorts of destruction?

What I found weird today is I didn't have my usual "I think we're going to have an earthquake today" feeling. Sounds hokey, but it's accurate. I had a "man, it's tornado weather" the day tornado's touched in Riverside. Keep in mind my only experience with them is from the news, the movies and the book Night of the Twisters. It was literally a random thought.

Other than a really crappy morning at work the day felt normal. My co-worker said it felt like "earthquake weather" but it's hot, it's dry and it's July. It's normal weather.

The past 3 weeks have been odd, and off. It's almost a joke "something is off in the cosmos" - but GD has a good point. A huge amount of energy was expelled from the earth today. Maybe the past 3 weeks was a cumulative of it building.

It's actually been cooler than normal for July.