Mother Nature is a Cruel Bitch

You may have heard by now that the east coast of United States experience its first earthquake two weeks ago.  To pile on more shit for the east coast, mother nature gives us a gift in a form of a hurricane.  In one week mother nature pretty much took a shit on the east coast.

This won't be a worthy blog post if I didn't include my experience of the earthquake.  When did the earthquake happen?  Around 1:50pm ish?  Ok let go with that.  Around that time I was nerding out by watching a Battlestar Galactica episode.  All of the sudden the house was making a weird noise like it was settling in.  Kinda weird for a house to settle in at this time of day.  Wasn't windy outside, so it couldn't be that.  Split second later, i felt the floor move.  I could feel myself swaying back n forth for a few seconds.  My bottle water sitting on the table next to me was also moving.  5 seconds of this it suddenly dawn on me that this is a EARTHQUAKE!  Just like that it was all over.  My mind was going berserk!  WTF just happened here!  Me being a nerd, my first action to go to my computer and tweet.

After tweeting, my mind was still processing what happened.  My second action was to call the family and see if they're ok.  Nope can't dial out because all the lines are busy.  Most of my family is on Facebook, so i posted on there about the earthquake.  If they see that i posted on Facebook then that will tell them i am ok.  Turns out my mom, dad, and one of my sister didn't even know a earthquake even happened.  My sister who lives near Baltimore felt it while at work.  My sister that didn't know it happened was quite upset because she never experience one either.  Least everyone was ok.  Then reports were coming in that the center of the quake was somewhere in Virginia.  It register a 5.8.

On that weekend, we were dealt with another one of mother nature cruel joke, Hurricane Irene.  Mother nature was probably thinking "well if the earthquake wasn't bad then here a over hyped hurricane."  It wasn't that serious when Irene past over Maryland.  We may have gotten around 60mph winds and a lot of rain.  There was minor flooding,  Some trees got knocked down.  A bunch of leaves and small branches were laying on the ground and roads.  Didn't even knock out power.  Was really glad about that.

What a week it has been eh?  On the bright side, that quake brought out some funny memes.  We will never forget!

Can We Agree That....

This was done by vxside at Deviantart.  I saw this picture and I fell in loved with it.

Spring is the worse season ever?  Think about it for a moment.  My main enemy during the spring season is pollen.  That alone should be everyone #1 enemy during spring.  It fucking everywhere!!  I look thru my windows and everything is yellow.  The porch is yellow, my car is yellow, the driveway is yellow.  It sucks donkey balls.  When I go outside, i feel like i need a bubble around me at all times.  When the wind blows you can see a cloud of pollen blowing around.  Makes you wanna lock yourself inside your home.  Second worse thing in my opinion is bugs are starting to come out of their hibernation.  I'm already swatting mosquitoes.

What I'm starting to notice the same about this year and last year is that temperatures are either cold or hot during spring.  This past Sunday and Monday, temps reach the 80s with what felt like high humidity.  Temps right now are in the 70s.  Which is where it should be but inside my home, i got humidity up the wazoo.  Got 2 fans going near my desk.  The AC not put in yet because there is leak in it somewhere.  Plus it needs to be cleaned really good before being installed.

For Summer, it not bad because all that pollen is washed away.  Bugs are still a problem but we deal with them the best we can.  I remember last summer that the mosquito population wasn't to bad around my neighborhood.  Maybe that was due to the lack of rain.  Temperatures haven't to bad last summer.  Few days where the temps reached 90 degrees.  Around August and September, we get a influx of hurricanes.  Luckily for us, Maryland never gotten a direct hit from a hurricane.  We usually get the aftermath when a hurricane comes up the coast.  By the time it gets here, it just mostly rain with some wind.  Although it makes me chuckle when the tourons flee the town because they think the worse.  For some of you, maybe tornadoes are your fears during the summer season.  Shit some of you have already gotten tornadoes.  Those people probably hate spring already.

Fall gotta be my favorite season.  The weather is like spring like but you don't get pollen.  Bugs are on their way out.  Leaves change to beautiful colors then gently fall to the ground.  Fall is everything you want in a season.

Winter is well cold.  I don't understand why such hate with winter.  I hear people say...

"oh when i move it gonna be somewhere warm year around"

"blah blah blah winter sucks, snow sucks, everything about winter sucks." 

To me, i like the different seasons because it keeps you on your toes.  You can bundle up to stay warm.  Unlike summer thought when it gets really hot out, you can be naked and still be hot.

What I'm really saying is by summer time let all get naked shall we. :)

Summer in a nutshell

What can I say about the summer of 2009?  It was pretty much the same as 2008.  With some slight differences.  One difference being that the temperatures were cooler than last year.  We only had a handful of days with 90+ degrees.  The rest of the days mostly been 70 to 80 degree weather with very little rain.....till NOW!  Now it September and the fucking rain shows up.  Seems it will continue to rain throughout the week.  Oh goody!!!  /sarcasm

Ok back to the summer of 2009.  Since Memoral Day, it been a tourist cluster fuck of a summer.  On twitter, I've been complaining about tourists a few times.  They are annoying bunch of dickweeds  Tons of places to go in this world and they all seem to gather in my town.  So we have a beach... big f-ing woop de doo!  Beaches get boring.  Sand gets to places you never knew existed.  You can't surf in the water because some douchbag kid gets in your way.  The good spots are taken, so your stuck towards the back of the beach where you have to walk about a length of a football field (exaggerating a bit) to get to the water.  So this year, I said screw it to the beach.  I'll just use my mom's above ground pool with a vollyball net.  Nothing spells fun like playing vollyball in the pool.  :)

Going to work is exciting...kinda.  Obviously I always get stuck being the slow drivers.  By slow i mean 10 miles below the speed limit.  Can't pass because it a 2 lane highway & 99% of the time there always a car coming the other way.  So I'm stuck behind this slow mutha fucker!  Coming home from work, i get the guy who HAS HIS BRIGHTS ON ALL THE TIME!  I'm constantly dodging the bright lights reflecting off the rear view mirror and side mirrors.  During this time, I hatched a plan where i put a huge spotlight on the back of my car.  Next time i get bright lights from behind...WHAMOO!  BRIGHT LIGHTS IN YOUR FACE BITCH!  Twice this summer, 2 people flash their high beams indicating there a speed trap down the road.  Only to find out there is no cop with a radar gun.  WONDERFUL!  I slow down for no damn reason.

Parking at work has gotten a little better than last year.  Simply because I'm parking in a customers spot if the employee lot is filled.  Hey customers are stealing our employee spots.  So I'm just returning the favor.  Your welcome.  We even get people that park and go fishing off the bay nearby.  That annoys me!  First of all why this area?!  All the places to fish but no you park in our employee spots to go fishing.  I should be allow to smash your car with a sledge hammer!

What is the same summer after summer is the annoying drunks.  Who loves to argue about their expensive tabs.  Dude you came to a night club.  Of course it gonna be expensive.  Annoying drunk chicks tend gravitate towards the band or DJ.  "Can you play my shitty song that i heard 1000s times before?!"  "Excuse me, can you play a song we can dance to?"  What kind of request is that?  Seriously?!  You can dance to any song.  But what you really mean is that can you play any of the top 40 hits instead of the classics songs.  No DJ is gonna play Pitbull or Flo Rida at 8pm with young children in the building.  So shut up with your stupid requests.  Don't get bitchy when we don't play your song after your 5th time asking for it.  The more you ask, the less likely the song will be played.

Speaking of bands, i saw some good tribute bands like Beatlemania Again,  Still Surfing - a Beach Boys tribute band. 2U - U2 tribute band.  Transfuzion, great local band that plays mostly classic rock.  Let see here, I also saw some pretty crummy low budget fireworks.  The finale I swear to god only lasted about 8 secs.  Fireworks finale should last like a min or 2 with lots of BOOMS!

With labor day done, summer not quite over yet.  Bike week coming up next week and Sunfest early October.  Sunfest is 4 huge tents with lots of people selling their arts and crafts.  Huge tourist attracting.  Especially old folks.  They go for that shit.  Plus their food and semi ok entertainment.  Believe me, I will be avoiding the arts and crafts.  Pretty sure I'm missing something from this summer.  Must not be important.  To that, i will end this rant of summer of 2009.

Boy that is one huge nut shell.