I am as giddy as a schoolboy, there is thunder and lightning afoot!
I’ve always had an odd fascination with thunder and lightning storms. Where I come from they happen frequently in the Fall and Spring time, as the seasons change. In the high desert, the horizon is quite a bit more visible than it is here in the valley so it was not uncommon to see the forked lightning striking all around you as you lay on the hood and windshield of your car, parked at your look out on top of the old quarry south of town.
I’ve even seen a tree struck 100 feet away from me, and I still love it.
As I found out today, most don’t share my enthusiasm with this awesome display of nature. While I sit here, grinning like an idiot, most of the office is showing signs of fear, wariness or just annoyance that their computer’s might all shut off. I pity them; and, as I sit here at my desk typing up orders for toner, figuring out summer lab schedules and creating server migration processes I am grinning like an idiot and tapping my foot until the moment I can get out on my bike and ride home in the midst of the storm!
You are more man than me. I took the motorcycle in today party because I didn’t want to deal with the storm conditions and partially because my bike that does well with fenders has a broken pedal and my other ones won’t fit them. Screw i all.