Cook-lye and cock-tail sound too much alike when I'm drunk.

So I locked my office and headed downstairs to walk home. Then I see a large number of police cars blocking all the streets. I walk 4 blocks to my route and ask the officer if I can walk home. No m'am, there is a man with an assault rifle in the area. Seek shelter. So since I can't get back in my office now I am hanging out in the bank lobby.

And Bobby at home with my office key and car can't leave of course.

Also, yikes!

And apparently they got him because only one block now closed. And I'm walkin'.

Wow Laura! Scary! That and Burrell's explosives thing...

Made it home without incident, but omg warm! It is only in the mid 80s, but I am a sweaty mess. Now for the pool quickly.

So glad you got home safely, Laura. Egad, what is happening? Why all the threats of violence lately?

Is it heightened response, or heightened threat?

I'm seeing a number of posts on my dash complaining about how not a national tragedy it turns out to be when people are randomly shot doing their business in New Orleans.

No idea what factors could play into that...

I'm not disagreeing ita, because LA also has more than it's share of shootings that generate zero public interest. But when I said threat I was refering more specifically to things like calling in a threat to shoot up a school, or even that ex-cop who decided to start taking out a few of his former employers. I feel like there's been a lot of that lately. People looking to get a reaction.

I don't have any exposure into how many threats are normally called in, though. And I am pretty sure no one is going to be the one that suggests under-reacting now, so I am assuming heightened response. Was there a spike in calls? I don't know. Are we still up there if it was? I don't know. But I don't blame anyone for shutting shit down, looking an extra time, eyeballing everything. Because a spike might very well follow, and you don't want to be the one that didn't learn from tragedy.

(The NO complaints I saw mentioned something about the scale of the injuries and the lack of scale of response--it was the worst shooting with non-apprehended gunmen for a while, or something, but less sense of being any larger than the neighbourhood)

Last night I had my second date with the "dinner with 6" or whatever it's called. Only took 4 months to get the second date. I will likely NOT renew that service. Although, I learned from one of the ladies, that she had a dinner where two of the three guys were former members that they contacted in desperation, because there are not enough men in the program. So. Maybe I'll get a couple freebies.

Anyhow, the ladies last night were a much better match than the first night. All three were teachers, which was interesting. While none of them were any vavavavoom feelings of instant sparks, two of them were interesting enough that I will ask for their contact info. If they felt the same way about me, then we get each others emails. We shall see.

Interesting moment of the night. One of the gents, who is a track coach for a local high school, was revealed to be an Olympian! Attended the Atlanta games, representing the nation of Cape Verde in the hurrdles races.

Other interesting note, bulk of the convresation was talking about singles sites. And Olympian dude has worse luck with them than I do! Makes me feel a bit less like a loser.