Like a deer in the headlights...

Ever been placed in a situation where your heart stops beating for a second, then damn near thumps out of your chest. A time when everything you fear could possibly go wrong, when everything that has to fall into place at just the right moment and place, somehow horribly does. And your caught standing there with your pants figuratively around your ankles...

And when its over, all you can do is give a little laugh to relieve the tension. Life tends to do that to you, but you've just got to get back up and venture out onto the highway again. And watch out for speeding cars...

Rain, glorious rain

Finally we're getting meaninful amounts of precipitation. After weeks, even months, of little to no rain, we've managed to get several solid days of the wet stuff. So maybe now the burn ban will be off and the danger of wildfires will diminish substantially. Finally...

It's been so dry that virtually the whole damn state has been under a burn ban. We've already run 43 calls in 19 days. That's busy...

So let it rain, let it pour...

Waaaasssaaaabbbiiii..........

Spent the evening with someone who is very dear to me, shopping for a dishwasher. Yep, you heard right... a dishwasher. We went to three different stores looking at the various brands and the various features each had, before settling on one. This is the difference between men and women. Women will pay very close attention to the various features. Men have one question, "Will it wash the frackin' dishes?" If the answer is yes, load it up. I was astonished to find that not one single brand had a dishwasher that would unload itself, placing the dishes in your cupboard. We can place a man on the moon, but can't create a dishwasher with that simple feature. Priorities people, PRIORITIES!!!!!

Afterwards, we went for sushi. She and I are the only people in our circle of friends and family that likes to partake of raw fish. So in my mind that makes us perfect for one another....

The sushi bar was good. There was a sushi chef that was eating huge balls of wasabi. I don't know how he was doing it. I can eat jalapenos without batting an eye, but wasabi is another beast entirely. I tried a thumb-sized chunk and burned off all of my nasal folicles. I'm sincerely worried about going to the restroom later.

Don't ever try the squid... nasty stuff. Luckily, they served a decent sake that washed that vile taste out of my mouth, or at least made me forget the episode entirely....

On the subject of sheeple...

Here's one I've never managed to figure out, why someone would pay double or triple the price for a simple t-shirt or sweatshirt, with the only exception that it has some company's name written on it. I saw it several years ago with Abercrombie & Fitch and BUM. Mow I see it with Hollister.

Man, the marketing directors at these companies are frackin' geniuses. I can imgaine the discussion in the boardrooms of these companies: "Ya' see, we don't have to spend a penny on advertising, we'll get dumbass teenagers to PAY US for the honor of advertising our products!" "No way, teenagers aren't that stupid!" "Yes they are, just you wait and see."

And they are. Simple t-shirts are not enough, they go to a store that for some reason all their friends believe is the newest, hippest place and pay for some t-shirt with the name of the store on it. Brainless sheeple, following the herd...