Explosion!!

It's Christmas Eve and I am off of work early. Killing some time before going to a dinner party, I sit at the computer and begin to goof off, as always.

About ten minutes to two o'clock we hear "BOOM!!" My husband yells the usually obscenities, "What the hell was that?!" My first thought is that the tree has fallen onto the house, and now we're really going to have to move.
However, when we open the front door to figure out what happened, we see practically the whole neighborhood out on their front lawns looking up towards the sky.

Now I am thinking aliens might have landed. I mean really. I have never even seen half of these people in the year and a half we have lived here. We met the neighbors for the first time. The Vietnamese couple that sings Frank Sinatra and Ricky Martin karaoke with all of their friends on Wednesday nights.

We go back into the house after quick deliberation with the neighbor that we do know and conclude that there must have been an explosion nearby. I quickly get back on the internet and look up the local news station. As soon as the KCRA homepage pops up there is an image of a house that has been leveled and a preliminary report.

By the time I click on the link to read the report, I hear countless sirens and helicopters hurrying to the scene.

The report so far:
*A Rancho Cordova house was leveled after an explosion on Wednesday afternoon.
*The blast was reported on Paiute Way between Grayson Drive and Kachina Way.
*KCRA 3 reported that five people were hurt in the explosion. Three of them are in critical condition. It's unknown if anyone was killed.
*Christian Pebbles from the Sacramento Metro Fire Department said officials suspect natural gas as the cause of the explosion.

I hope everyone will be alright.
I am ready to move now.

Danged Zippers

The worst thing about finding that your zipper is down, is the distressing knowledge that you don't actually know how long it was actually down.

Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Quotables:

The sign read:
"Hold stick near center of its length. Moisten pointed end in mouth. Insert in tooth space, blunt end next to gum. Use gentle in and out motion."

"It seems to me," Said Wonko the Sane, "that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to include a set of detailed instructions for use in a package of toothpicks, was no longer a civilization in which I could live and stay sane."

Blog, blag, blawg

I can't seem to ever write anything on here. I'll be cleaning or walking around or doing something not near a pen and paper, and not any where close to a computer, and think "Wow that would be a great blog!" Then when I get here....

Nothing.
Or I don't feel like typing....

That is all... Until next time

Bi-Polar disorder and Maniac Drivers

I was driving downtown today when I realized my frustration was reaching boiling point. It's not hard to get me irritated, but today's traffic had me especially frustrated. Common practice for me is to blast the radio and sing my guts out, but today I decided on contemplation. I wondered why the idiot in front of me kept slamming on his breaks when he was 4 car lengths from the car in front of him. Then I wondered if the break slamming was a compulsive thing. Then I wondered if bi-polar disorder included compulsive behavior, and ultimately decided that doctors are not diagnosing enough people with bi-polar disorder and consequently not prescribing enough medication to these jerks who compulsively drive.

I arrived at home, less irritated, and safely.

A Rhyme A Week, So Take A Peek

Ok ok! So maybe I don't post here every week... but I am trying harder now!!

http://beths-rhymes.blogspot.com/

Everybody Wang Chung Toinght!!

Soooo... I have decided to write in a blog, (other than the other one I have). When I am out taking pictures I always thing to myself, "Man, this would make a great blog!". But when I actually sit down, I forget, or my brain farts and I can't write anything good. So, here I am giving it a go.....

Have fun!