The One With the Thunder

A week ago at this time I was having A MUCH better time than I am currently. My "birthday party" was awesome.

On early Thursday morning (~7:34) when there was suppose to be some heavy snowfall (which never happened) I was instead awoken by a sound of thunder. Sorry.....I couldn't stop myself from writing that. The thunder I heard would rank fairly high on my all-time Thunder List. It wasn't the deafening crack of thunder you hear when there is a lightning strike a few hundred feet away. Instead, it was the coming-from-all-around-even-from-the-core-of-the-Earth variety. It was a sustained, uh.....thunderous roar of thunder that shook the building. That's right, I just used the abverb "thunderous" in my description of the thunder's roar. Live with it. Now when I said it was "sustained", I mean it lasted for a long time. A very long time. All while maintaining it's impressive intensity. Now realize it woke me up, so I wasn't alert enough to count its length. I'd guess in was in the 20+ second range though. More than enough time for me to be in awe of its intensity and shaking ability, then thinking it sure was lasting a long time, then starting to get worried about if I'd missed the memo about the end of the world, then thinking "are you freakin' kidding me, God?", then as it finally ended thinking "OK, I'm up now...thanks, man".

Note: I don't actually have a Thunder List. However, now that I've thought of it I may go ahead and start one. It can go with my Most Untrustworthy Rodents List. That list is topped by bunnies and groundhogs if you were curious.

Current song: "Mother We Just Can't Get Enough" by New Radicals

See?!?! Doing taxes can be fun!

I am getting all federal and state income tax that was withheld in 2005 fully refunded. That totals $860. Too bad Social Security and Medicare taxes are not also refunded to me. You know....since those programs will be bankrupt by the time I could use them. That would have been another $326. I could have invested it, started up my own personal Social Security program. Or it could have covered one month's rent AND allowed a trip to the dollar store to purchase one item. Like a cheese grater. I don't imagine a $1 cheese grater would be that nice though. It would probably rust quickly and be dull. So now it has to be thrown out and you don't have a good cheese grater and basically wasted the $1. Thanks for nothing government.

Current song: "Exploder" by Audioslave

(Note: The first person to make a joke about "sharp" cheese loses all respect.)