O Stormy Night
If there is one word for our internet service here, it's infuriating. So far, it's been out probably as many mornings as it hasn't since I've been home. It usually comes on sometime in the early afternoon. This morning it was out, and now it's on sporadically. Like right now, instant messanger keeps getting service interrupted. And it's slow as anything. Grrr.
I suppose this morning, it had an excuse for being out. We had one hell of a storm last night. (there goes AIM again...) It was like the storms in Florida: rain pelting the windows so hard that you know if you went outside for thirty-two seconds, you'd come back looking like a drowned rat, (AIM again) thunder so loud it sets off car alarms, lightening so close it lights up the whole room through just one window. It was a doozy. (Oh, hello, AIM friends, you're all signing on. My service must be back.) I got up to a note telling me to call my parents in Michigan, so I did. They tell me the basement flooded, which gave them a late start on moving my sister in. So I should squeegee any more water that's come in into the drain in the laundry room. They also told me to go to the post office, but not to go the usual way because Smith and Colfax Roads are under water. And to start washing the rugs that got soaked, and if I got the chance, start emptying boxes that are all wet. Great timing, since today is my "pack for school" day, supposed to move in tomorrow. Luckily it looks like the room with all my school boxes (as well as most of the "junk" we'd rather not lose) didn't get soggy, but the laundry room and my dad's workshop were in two inches of water this morning. =/
In other news, 1776 at the Marriott Lincolnshire was wonderful. I'm not much of a history buff usually, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. "Sit down, John, sit down, John. Somebody open up a window! Sit down, John! For God's sake, John, sit down! ... It's hot as hell in Philadelphia!" <.g> I'm sad that I missed Damn Yankees, as its run was while I was in Florida, but Carousel is next. Maybe I'll be able to come home for it.