We got tons of weather growing up -- serious thunder and lightning, blizzards, tornadoes, floods -- growing up, so I while I have a healthy respect for weather, I'm not afraid of it. I LOVE a crazy storm, and would stand on the over hang of the deck, dripping wet, watching.
My mom always got nervous during a storm and a tornado warning, but we never got an actual tornado (thank god -- those things are fucking deadly -- closest I've ever been was a microburst that hit the Plaza about 1/8 of a while away from school when I was in grad school, stuck in the English TA's office watching the weather BOIL outside -- it pushed two cars into Brush Creek on the Plaza.)
And let's see -- we lost our cherry tree to lightning, our TV and a couple of phones another time, and a third time, the electrical system of our car was fried by a nearby strike. And in college, a bolt hit a nearby transformer and the explosion was INSANE -- the power in half the town went out, and (rural MO) half the girls in my dorm were seriously convinced The Rapture was nigh.
Every time the weather sneezed, the transformer on the corner of our street went out and left us without power for hours. They finally put in a new one after four or five years of increasingly abusive "Snow, sleet, ice storm, thunderstorm, I think a fricken breeze went by" calls.
The usual summer afternoon thunderstorms got worse over the years, until we were getting near-microburst winds right over our house. It hopped the two-seater swing over the front railing and onto the ground below at least twice before we decided to leave the swing in the yard. And it pulled the patio umbrella out of the weight and left it in the top of the cherry tree a couple of times.
It took people fricken eons to realize that all the tornados NC never used to have were following I-40 between Kernersville and Greensboro. Something about all that paving in an uninterrupted path.
My meeting today was cancelled, and not even by me!
None of my meetings have been cancelled, but I got called out on a thing this morning and was able to say that I didn't have an update because nobody actually had told me about the problem. I have been procrastinating hard on plenty of other stuff, but not THAT thing, ha HA!
Jeez louise, this house sort of in my neighborhood was on the market for five days. [link]
I am having to attend a training at corporate that I sat with someone and did one on one two months ago. Corporate is half an hour away. I was told about this as I came back from picking up my lunch an hour and 20 minutes before the training starts. So annoyed.
Two months ago and you need to redo it? That's just someone being cruel, there's no legitimate reason to mistreat your employees that way. But I am perhaps less forgiving than I should be of corporate CYA training measures ever since they started insisting that I need to retake the EXACT SAME online sexual harassment training course every year. I personally consider *it* a form of sexual harassment.
Oh and guess what time of year it is? Time to submit to the online sexual harassment of course.
That is ridiculous, msbelle. And Burrell.
Timelies all!
After last week's dip into early spring temps, summer seems to be coming on strong. And with the heat and humidity, we get thunderstorms. Whee.
