| Gunther Thurl: | [...] I've run a cost-benefit analysis, and it remains profitable even in extreme contingencies. |
| Captain Kaff Tagon: | Did you just weasel-word your way around saying "What's the worst that could happen?" |
| Gunther Thurl: | Hey, you just now invoked Murphy, not me. Those weasel-words are there for our protection. |
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howardtayler,
2008-05-01
I caught the brief change in background illumination in my peripheral vision. Perrine didn't. So I was expecting the thunder. After I felt her startle from her position against my shin, she looks confused. Must've been a whopper of a bolt, to be that bright and that loud from so far away. The thunderclap kept me waiting a while.
I'm even farther behind on email, comments, and my friendspage than usual right now. I've got three projects in progress that I'm trying to keep my attention on (and just hit a "now I get to wait for somebody else" step in a fourth), so I don't know when I'll catch up.
Five or six fire trucks, a police car, and two television news helicopters (WJZ for sure; I think the other was WBAL but I didn't get as clear a look at the logo) ... arrived, circled, jostled -- then the helicopters abruptly flew away and the firefighters looked like they were packing up. Huh. I'll resort to guessing: a call that sounded sufficiently high-stakes over the radio to get the telly news folks to fly over my not-interesting-to-local-television neighbourhood, but that the firefighters were relieved to discover was something easily resolved once they arrived? Last I looked, two fire trucks were left, one blocking Lombard St. They never got as far as connecting the hoses they pulled out to a hydrant.
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