Kicks just keep getting harder to find.... ( Read more... )

I didn't realize that little numerical coincidence until one of you pointed it out in your journal. I'm starting to get a little nervous now about tomorrow morning at 5:05. A 5.5? Thursday's 6.6 at 6:06 will, of course, produce a mass exodus of southern Californians preparing to leave before 7:07 Friday morning. And of course, the threat of ( Read more... )

I woke up to silence early this morning. After a moment of such silence, the earthquake struck ( Read more... )

Not being an LA native, I do not have that cavalier attitude so many of my fellow Southern Californians have about them. Before I moved here thirteen years ago, back in my apartment in Seattle I had nightmare after nightmare seeing myself buried in the rubble of my apartment building. (This was made worse by an earthquake we had in Seattle that ( Read more... )

We just had a couple of quick earthquakes about 20 minutes ago. One of them was a 5.0. It seems to be centered under the LA basin, south of south central. I couldn't exactly tell from the US Geological Survey's map. God knows which fault line it was on. Let's hope that was that, and not a forerunner of something larger to come ( Read more... )

I did "something" with my fish last night all right, and for a little while I was thinking it was going to turn out a minor taste disaster. The near disaster part was when I discovered that I had bought a package of what they called "microwavable" fish, and the only directions were for microwaving it ( Read more... )

It was a 5.0, out near San Bernadino ( Read more... )

At least one friend on my list has expressed in rather severe terms his loathing of brussel sprouts, and I simply could not let the insult pass without sticking up for the poor, disparaged winter cabbage. For I love it. I'll admit it. I love it so ( Read more... )

Well, that was scary. I was at work on the third floor of a building here in Burbank when the quake hit less than an hour ago. It started as a light motion, then followed as a HARD SHOCK that rattled everything. (I think there may have been a few more quick shocks and rattles ( Read more... )