Lazy day

[amalyna]

It feels like Fall out. It's cool and cloudy and windy. But it's not Fall, it's left-over hurricane. For some reason I tend to have fun in hurricanes. In '83 I was in Alicia and while it didn't go so well for my parents or my brother (who was an infant and got food poisoning) I had a grand time. We had no power so we stayed at my friend's father's hotel which did have power and a shrimp buffet. Katrina was an adventure too. This should say something about smokers: we weren't aloud to smoke inside so we went outside - in Katrina - to smoke. Of course lighters wouldn't work in that kind of wind so we lit our cigarettes inside and then ran out the door and got drenched. The wind was so strong it took several of us to get the door closed again. The shed outside our house ended up in five places, none of them near where it had been. But the real adventure was getting gas afterwards. Few stations had gas, and several that did were reserved for emergency vehicles. The average wait at a station was about two and a half hours, and there was no guarantee that they wouldn't run out before you got to a pump. Sometimes there was a fifteen dollar limit and so with gas at $3.50 a gallon you ended up doing it all over again the next day. The day after the storm my mother wired me money for gas but no one had power so I couldn't get it. Anyway, as I drove around looking for a Western Union my car ran out of gas. There were no gas cans available so I put some gas in a milk carton and poured it into to car with a rolled-up cigarette carton. Which got me just enough gas to keep my car running while I waited in line to get gas. Fun times. Odd note: in the two years I lived in south Florida there was not a single hurricane. Not even a tropical storm. My theory is that I created so much chaos that it kept the hurricanes away. I was the natural disaster. Hey, you never know.

Anyway, what am I going to do today? I have one more app. to fill out so I should do that. But that won't take long. It's such a lazy-feeling day. But I still need something to do. Hopefully I'll think of something. I'm going to go work on that now.