The plants are starting to stand back up after the beating they took last night. We had some major storm cells sweep through Minnesota yesterday. There was much wind and rain and thunder and lightning in the dark hours, and a few communities that got tornadoed. No deaths, luckily, but a few hospitalizations.
This morning I discovered that the pansies out back were flat, and anything hollow was full of water. As was the sub-basement. (This is nothing new.) More forecast for tonight, though without the wall clouds that mean general havoc and damage.
I really should go check the raingauge. Be right back.
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Well. Four and a half inches in the past twenty four hours. And the thing only holds five inches. That's a bit more rainfall than our geology can deal with. No wonder the freeway ramps were flooded this morning.
This keeps up, and the state will turn into the UK.
For the eighteenth time, we've refinanced. We're on the verge of having the Mortgage company pay us.
How much lower can interest rates get?
1. I’ve never had a Big Mac. With good reason. Sing the song in your head, and note the two ingredients that come after “cheese”. They pretty much invalidate the whole burger for me. Can I get my Big Mac with just ketchup?
2. I’ve never waterskied. Tried once. Couldn’t get up on the skis. Without getting up out of the water, all you’re doing is going for a drag. (No, I didn’t do that either. I let go of the rope.)
3. I’ve never been to Las Vegas. I’ve been through it, in a speeding car, but that’s not the same thing.
4. I’ve never watched a “Rocky” movie. Boxing? Think I’d rather mop the kitchen than watch a boxing movie. Snore.
5. I’ve never tried Heroin. Just for the record.
6. I’ve never dated a cheerleader. Though I have eyed a couple of football players.
7. I’ve never set fire to a building. No one has met my asking price yet.
I'm almost there with my home web server. I got port forwarding figured out, and have Apache running.
If you visit susskins.com, you'll see an old copy of this blog running. Or the first page, anyway. All of the links still point towards my ISP version, though.
I've obviously got a lot of work to do. And I still can't log in to the Movable Type interface yet. But it's getting there!
Someday, in the near future, www.visi.com/~susskins will go away, and be replaced by susskins.com. I swear.
Really. I swear.
Most Extreme Elimination Challenge is now locked in on TiVo.
It's bits and pieces of "Takeshi's Castle", a weird game show that used to run in Japan. People dressed as chickens and ducks, people in velcro suits flinging themselves at walls, people falling into canals, people getting soccer balls fired at them, people being dipped into hot water, etc.
Huge amounts of people start, and are eventually winnowed down to a single winner of one million yen. All while being bruised and buffeted and humiliated. Surreal.
Well, someone got their hands on it, and dubbed it. And not a straight dub either; it's now loaded with cheap humor and complete bullshit. I laughed myself sick last night, watching it for the first time.
I love cheap laughs.
Today, June 19th, 2003 is Fry the Spy Day at Chuck's place.
Help celebrate the execution of two spies that aided the most corrupt leader the world has ever known.
Link found via Michele.
John relates part three of his adventures with a broken nose. (You may need to scroll down through the June 13th section. Look for "Don't worry, this will just take a second...")
Don't read this if you're squeamish about pain. Seriously.
Remind me to never get my nose broken.
Neal Boortz writes: The French Tourist Bureau has hired Woody Allen to promote the image of France in the United States.
Right. Uh-huh. Sure. I'm going to vacation in France because Woody told me to. Couldn't they have picked someone more popular, like O.J. Simpson or Janeane Garafolo?
Spike Lee, the annoying gimp behind such crap as Do the Right Thing and a bunch of pointless Nike ads, is suing Viacom because he thinks that the newly renamed Spike TV network is capitalizing on his name.
Uh, no. It has nothing whatsoever to do with self-righteous, arrogant auteurs. That's like Woody Allen suing Cheers because one of the bartenders was named Woody.
If anyone has a case, it's The Kids In The Hall.
Link courtesy of Rachel.
Back. It was a wonderful event. We had a great time.
And then this happened.
The Coaster enthusiast world is very subdued today. We lost a fellow enthusiast last night, at an event that was supposed to be nothing but joy. Our hearts ache for the woman's family, for her fiance who was riding with her, and for the wonderful Koch family. (The Koch - pronounced "cook" - family owns Holiday World.)