I'm leaving early to hit the salon

Okay, that's automatically a holiday for me. Plus it's the MLB draft day. Oh, and I'm picking up my new computer at the Apple Store just as soon as Matilda's Date With Justice is over.

So I feel like I zigged where Monday zagged.

Today I unplugged my bathtub with a snake, so I accomplished something besides eating hail.

I'm hoping mor more storms tonight but it's looking less likely.

I think the radio said we might have thunderstorms on Wednesday? I wasn't really paying attention. There was something about hail. While I was driving around in the 105° heat it all sounded pretty impossible.

My Monday continued to Monday. I had a doctor's appointment for regular preventive tests this afternoon, so I was supposed to leave the office early, so of course urgent stuff came in for to me right before I was trying to leave. Got out only a few minutes late, got to Kaiser about 10 minutes late for my appointment, stood in line for a bit and when I got up to the front got told "Oh, I'm sorry, you must be one of the people I couldn't reach" - my doctor called in sick. No big deal, we rescheduled and now they have my cell phone # (I could have sworn I went through this before but maybe that was a different department and they don't share phone numbers, who knows?). Got back out to my car and the "buy gas now" light came on, and the one on my dashboard does not give me a lot of notice, so I went and took care of that (horrible mileage this last tank). But then I went to Jamba Juice and spent my gift card ($5, it turns out, which almost paid for my drink), decided Bath & Body Works was more than I was willing to attempt, and came on home. I did leave the curtains drawn, and the inside of my house is not too hot AND my evil supply company parcel was waiting for me. So things are looking up!

That does look like a Groot, dcp.

My mom and I saw ball lightning appear in our kitchen once, ahead of a coming storm. We heard a crack like glass breaking and looked up, and there was this ball of bright white light on the ceiling. It hung there a second, then shot across the room and disappeared. Weirdest thing.

Freaky, Zen!

I've always wanted to see ball lightning. It's the kind of thing that sounds too freaky to be true.

Skies are boiling above me! The light patches emphasize how absurdly dark it's gotten.

We didn't even know what it was! I didn't learn about ball lightning until many years later.

This is some bullshit on a friend's comment on fb - "I've been shot at performing my job duties, have you? Those who haven't, ESPECIALLY in today's uber-charged society, have zero valid input, IMHO. Again I say, sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up when the Police tell you to. Race, gender,and attire be damned."

please don't look for it and jump in, the poster is an ass who went to my hs. he is in law enforcement. he was a bully asshole entitled piece of crap at 18 and I don't think he has changed much. just enrage - making.

of course I could not keep my mouth shut - my response - "So unless we have been shot at during our job, in YOUR "humble" opinion, we have zero valid input on any police situation. seems valid. please to never speak about anything about women, ever."

My Monday zigged and zagged. The majority of the work day was spent fighting with the crap loaner laptop (day 10 of this). In talking to one on my PMS about shifting deliverable around as a result of this mess. He gave,me the go ahead to puchase an external hard drive so I can access all my files without having to connect to the server (something that makes the loaner freak out).

Then I talked with my boss about the mess and he mentioned he had just approved a Reward and Recognition request for me. These typically run around $50, which yay! He sent me the certificate which said who nominated me and why - very blush worthy - and how much - $300!!! I'm still in shock. It will take a paycheck or two before I get it but I don't care. I was just doing my job.