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[snapdragen]

The fighter jets screamed overhead, and I thought, "Oh cr*p, he pushed the button!" I hit the floor and crawled to the window. Then crawled to the TV. When no one was reporting the end of the world as we knew it, I eventually figured it out! Sheesh.

This sounds like something I would do........

[winddance]

I was trying to snooze in bed for a few extra minutes this morning, and there was an earthquake. After waiting until the cats stopped looking all freaked out, I took it as a hint and got up.

[kelownagirl]

Oooh, how exciting! We don't get earthquakes here in the interior. I remember only one good one in Vancouver in 1976...

[Trek420]

there was one this evening? and a small one this morning? I didn't feel either one.

I saw my ex today, from a distance I don't think she saw me and I thought it best to not go over and say hi.

There was a street fair downtown so I stopped on the way home and check it out. It was a little odd seeing her actually quite odd. She looked a little either frumpy or tired. Might just have been a long day,

[salsabike]

The Blue Angels practiced over my office complex for a couple of afternoons. Great view out my office window but then I don't need to sleep during these times either. As long as they don't keep you awake during those meetings...

Salsa - I finally found your post about your mom, back on page 172. My, we're a chatty group. How're things going? I'm in a bit of a fog today. Bubba's mom is truly showing signs of old age (the forgetfulness and personality change kind of stuff -- at 96 ) and I think my dad is also having TIAs like her, so Bubba and I are really leaning on each other a lot. I am so grateful for him.

What a good TD gang you are. Thanks for all the good wishes. I hope you are glad to know, by the way, that Mr. Salsa calls you my hooligan friends, as in "Yeah, you and your hooligan friends on TE." That means he thinks y'all are cool. He likes bad girls (and good cyclists).

SK and CWR, so sorry about your dads. Please keep us posted. And Nanci, losing both parents too early. Ugh. Such hard stuff. The brief report on my mom is that she went into the hospital two weeks ago with a very rapid heartbeat, dehydration, lethargy; was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism; all was just getting under control and we were doing discharge planning for a week or two of rehab, when she had a very scary GI bleed this past Saturday night. They found a huge ulcer just past her duodenum. Medicines have been stopping the bleeding and she just got the NG tube removed tonight (she was giddy with joy). The double-scary part is that she has a mechanical heart valve but cannot take Coumadin right now because of the ulcer, so is at significant risk of an embolism. She's 80, and her system is being very taxed by all these events, BP very high right now, starting to get some hospital-induced problems...etc. She's cool, a real adventurer, traveler, opera and ballet lover, former speech pathologist, brave, stoic, a smart-***. Anyway...things are dangerous but better than they were a few days ago. My anxiety level is somewhere around the newly IDed 12th planet's orbit, I think. Whoof.

I emailed the name and author of SK's book to myself so I can look for it on abe.com once I regain some form of consciousness.

Our cats are MUCH smarter than we are about sensing earthquakes. They're always getting themselves under the coffee table already while I'm still sitting up further on the couch, furrowing my brow, deep in thought, and saying useful things like "Holy ****...I think that's an earthquake..."

Lise, that story is a classic.

Bubba sounds pretty darn cool, actually. So is Mr. Salsa. I got lucky in that respect. In '96, we lost my dad AND his mom so the mutual leaning system got well tested that year. He's a doll (cute, too). Thank God for a guy with a cool, sweet temperament.

I want to try a Vitesse.

KY, so interesting about this neurologist's info. Glad you finally got some satisfaction. Helps to be taken seriously, doesn't it?

Fish, I'm sure you've said it elsewhere, but I too would like to know where the bee job would be.

CC, the house thing sounds great, actually--congrats!

I think Snap's tire-tread smiley-grumpy face is very funny. Not sure what this says about me.

I think Lise is correct about crackers making a fine dinner.

I think FishJr sounds like a very cool kid.

I would appreciate it if someone could call the spaceship and let them know that I'm ready to go to another planet for just a little while. I promise I would send postcards.

[Lise]

oooh, postcards! If I can find that number for the spaceship.... Thinking of you and your mom, and family. So glad that Mr. Salsa is such a great guy. If he has any single friends in the Chi-town area....

Hang in there. Sometimes it's moment by moment, sometimes it stretches out and you get some relief. Wishing your mom all the best. Keep us posted.

My mom had a health scare a few years ago; I saw the whole world seem to change in a few moments.

SK and CWR, you guys, too.

Today my mom emailed me and my sibs (younger bro and sis) that she's going to retire at the end of the year. I'm happy for her, but also worried. She hasn't done any retirement planning. My sister's going to talk to her about it on a long drive they have coming up. Tonight I thought, "Well, between the three of us, we can take care of her." It was sort of comforting.

Earthquakes, eh? Everybody OK? Good.

To bed. Sleep tight, TD.

[winddance]

It was only a 2.9, centered a few miles from me. I live nearly on a fault (not that I knew that when I rented my apartment, but nowhere in the bay area is seismically stable) so I always feel the earthquakes. Gets the ol' adreneline going, makes the cats go completely insane...

Not the alarm clock I would choose, but it's certainly effective. Earthquakes are scary.

[bikerz]

I heard that quake this morning as much as felt it - it was loud! My dog ran upstairs and barked his crazy head off for a few minutes, then came back to his bed a conked out for another hour! I think I prefer those to the rollers though. I think it was in Wildcat Canyon, which is just a couple of miles away from here as the crow flies.

I was off-line for most of today at a client site and it took me foreever to catch up with the drift.

[Nanci]

Good catch up, Salsa! At least that is one form of stress I am spared...

[Lise]

Sorry about the scary earthquakes, guys. BZ, what are rollers?

[crazycanuck]

Aren't rollers a type of quake that makes the earth feel as if it's "rolling". I experienced the same thing while living in japan.

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[DrBee]

Salsa - the job is in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. We head down there on Sunday.

FishJr appears to have a bit of a cold. She didn't make it a week in school and is already sick. Lovely. She's playing with her voice. She sounds so funny! Haven't we all done that???

Earthquakes - great. Hopefully the ground stays stable while I'm visiting SF in a couple of weeks!

[Trek420]

Fishdoc, it wouldn't be the full SF experience without a quake

[DrBee]

Peachy. Something to look forward to!

[bikerz]

Yeah - CC has it right - rollers are pretty much what they sound like. All of the earthquakes I've noticed in the last few years have been these kind of loud jolts - my first thought is that something like a bookcase has fallen over. I notice the sound almost before I notice the movement. These have all been very close to me - within 5 miles, a few within 2 miles That's probably why the sound is so noticable, and the movement feels like one solid jolt - because the wave hasn't had any room to get going yet (can you tell I'm not up on my physics?).

The thing I don't like about rollers is the feeling that they could get more intense as they go along. The Loma Prieta quake felt like that to me. We had a roller in the city (SF) last year - I was talking to a client on the phone, looking out the window, and I started feeling a little dizzy, and then I noticed all the cords for the blinds were swaying, all the while I'm thinking "What's going on?" ("Earthquake!" is usually the last thing to occur to me!) Finally, a few seconds into it, I told my client that I thought we were having an earthquake and I'd better get off the phone!

Fish - we'll try to arrange a little one - just so you can have the experience!