All is well.
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Okay…topped last night…several tornados in Jasper County..no serious injury that has been reported yet, anyway. At one point, when the weather service determined the path of the tornado was heading this way, I really expected to look up at the camera and see the cars in the parking lot flying around.. My faith in mankind is always restored when so many people get out there and volunteer to help their neighbors without knowing the price they may have to pay. These Iowa volunteer fireman are heros….they have to leave their families when all about them is chaos for the good of mankind to protect everyone else.
I actually had one of those overstress moments tonight when I was having trouble with my short term memory…after so many years on the job, most of the time we react to chaos without thinking; we just do it…tonight I was having difficulty a couple of times just trying to think straight and knowing I don’t have time to really think about it.
I only have to hang on for another 65 minutes before relief arrives…then I have to hang on for 5 years and 9 months and I can retire.
By the way…Happy 21st Birthday to my “baby girl”.
Until next time……
One horrible night of storms for Iowa. This 911 dispatcher is starting to be more irritable than normal. Can’t speak for southwestern Iowa which was hit prior to starting my shift, but central Iowa experienced, high wind, storm damage, heavy rain and lots of lightening and a few threats of possible tornados…I’m so spent..I can’t even figure out if tornado has an “e” on the end .. tornadoe..no don’t think so..just call me Dan Quail. For you not old enough to remember..just skip over that part.
Significant rain expected here today, tonight and Friday – the weekend is supposed to be nicer with only 30% change of rain..this reminds me of the floods of 1993..although I don’t remember having one nice day without rain that year. We took the kids on a vacation to investigate Texas and I remember walking into a grocery store and there was a booth set up for donations to help the Iowans with flood damage. That was great, Texas!!
No news to anyone, but Hillary did decide to congratulate Obama and support him in the race against McCain…good fight Hillary…you make us proud.
Whoever is doing the rain dance….STOP IT.
This is what I’m thinking tonight.
Knee hurts, right hip hurts, feeling better..have to wear brace. Ice helps..I am not going to spend all summer like this!!!
I’m so confused in my thoughts of the democratic race for president. I’m having a very hard time supporting Obama for many reason. I was not convinced Hillary was the “perfect” choice either…now Obama has crossed the finish line…I guess I have no choice left…I’m not feeling particularly neighborly about it and really don’t want to talk to anyone about it and am inclined to want to bitch slap everyone who comes up to me with a nasty comment about Hillary.
He and I were finally able to sit down and watch the season finale of Grey’s Anatomy….What’s with the lack of cliff hanger? Was the cliff hanger that the babes kissed? I think they are making Callie look better this season now that she is not in love with George..and quite frankly, I think she is exuding sex appeal. Let’s here it for a not perfect size zero and not a perfect face being a sex object and her obvious main arrousal right now for McSteamy!!
My friend, Jeff www.Thedailygroundhog.blogspot.com in the last few days has expounded on several sensitive political issues… I’ve been rather impressed that he has been on a roll….check out his blogging…you don’t have to agree – I seldom agree with him- but he makes me ponder the issues and what I think about them…
That’s it for now…will edit if I think of anything else between now and when I can break out of here at 0700.
The weekend caper
Thank goodness the weekend is over!!!
The plan was to take the camper and boat down to Lake Red Rock on Saturday when we got up..which is actually midafternoon for us late shift workers. The weather was going to be fine, I needed to camp, I needed a couple of days to uncomplicate my mind and just have fun. Tom and Rhonda were on board for this weekend to be totally uninspired where the only thing we had to worry about was a sunburn..well, other than Tom’s total mindset that we were going to run into big foot or a werewolf…you see how uncomplicated these people are.
Friday night they were totally thinking about our comfort and called to say that since “he” had to work Saturday night, that why didn’t we just take the boat down on Sunday and forego the Saturday camping trip…it would be so much work and “he” wouldn’t be able to enjoy it…instead…why don’t they just come down to our place and have hamburgers and we can continue trying to burn down the dead tree that we started last week. Did I mention Saturday was also Tom’s birthday…so..change of plans..new plans in motion…yes..much less stress. I decided to shop for the potty when I got off work Saturday morning ( See Saturday’s blog and that endless theme) so I got to bed around 11:30 am. Tom and Rhonda and Phil had already started picking up sticks and getting the pile around the tree ready by the time I was able to get out of bed. Hamburgers and brats were great for supper..not as great as the fudge cake with chocolate frosting we had…we set the tree off to burn 7ish. We pulled up our lawn chairs, a cooler of beer and water and were content to discuss life in general and watch the tree burn. “He” left for work at 8:40 and predicted the tree would not fall…but we would have plenty of warning as it would crack and make lots of noise before it went over.
At 10:25:30 I was poking the tree with all of my might making the pretty sparks shoot up the tree, at 10:26 a log rolled away from the tree, at 10:26:10 the other logs rolled away from the tree; at 10:26:15 I was walking back to my chair when at 10:26:20 the tree fell, I was in the process of pushing the poker into the ground when I heard Rhonda exclaim, I heard the rustle of the tree falling – hoping it wasn’t fallin on me, I moved fast, tried to turn to see it, tripped over my own foot and fell to the ground exactly 1 second after the tree fell to the ground. I thought I was fine until I tried to stand up. After much argument about the health of my right leg and knee, they forced me to get in the car for a trip to the ER…nothing broken….medical appliance to hold my knee in place from the sprain goes from crotch to mid-calf. Called Phil to meet at the hospital…of course in his correctional officer uniform with me feeling like an injured inmate from the prison….Home, one of Phil’s vicodin from his foot surgery and off to bed for me…
Sunday 11:30 am, I need to get out of bed to go boating…I’m totally out of it…he had to get everything ready, I was able to shower and dress myself and then reclined in the chair with not a thought in the world other than trying desperately to stay awake. Off to Lake Red Rock, stay awake, stay awake, Rhonda and I in the boat, Phil driving the truck and trailer up to the parking lot, Tom holding the rope…drifting toward tree, Tom lets go of the rope…Rhonda in the driver seat, Tom making hand motions to tell her how to put the boat in reverse/forward which way to turn to get back to them…stay awake stay awake… giggle…She cursed and threatened murder…this was totally new to both of us…I’m not worried…I just need to stay awake..giggle
We are all on board, thanks to Rhonda…beautiful day, peanut butter/jelly sandwiches, sun is great, oh so relaxing..oh, Tom has a fish…it’s not going to fit in the small net, oh, its a huge catfish, ohhhhhh.well at least it didn’t break the line, but it is gone…let’s move to another cove…here we go…air in hair – feels good stay awake…
I looked at Tom and said…did he just shut it off, Tom said, I hope so….boat motor died, won’t go. Get us a rescue vessel…here comes the US Army corp of Engineers to hook on and take us to shore…as it gets closer, we realize is Mark…the girls middle school science teacher and part-time cute little park ranger….he got us to shore, “he”, Rhonda and Tom were successful getting the boat on the trailer and they pulled her out…I had a fun ride out of the water… – with much thought, they were able to figure out how to get me off the boat, I was loaded safely in the truck for the trip home.
Screw this staying awake stuff…totally over rated…crawl up steps on all 4’s…ahhhhhh, finally.
Ninasusan 