Thunderstorm Musings
I have had a bit of a bizarre experience that I just felt I need to chronicle. Driving home from the Valley after seeing Paris, Je'Taime (which, by the way, was good - perhaps more miss than hit, but the hits were just so good..) over the Storey Bridge with lightning in abundance and then fortuitously hearing that old Motor Ace song 'Carry On' that brought some old memories back, and now to sit here and faintly hear the sound of rain(!) and thunder over the Smiths, I realise several things:
1) I should not drive while there's lightning around, I always have been fascinated by it and tonight it almost caused me to run into a roadworks truck...
2) I love Brisbane. I really do. Despite the many things that drive me insane on a regular basis, I can't help but fall in love with it all over again every time I drive over that bridge. Especially when there's a thunderstorm. Where else do you get a 30 degree maximum and a thunderstorm in the evening in the middle of autumn?
3) It's raining. It's finally raining. Forecast all week, finally delivered. And the fact that this makes me so ecstatically happy just makes me realise that it doesn't take a whole lot to make me happy.
Other things I wish to discuss this evening:
The last episode of West Wing finally aired last night on ABC. And lovely as it was, I can't help but feel that the entire seventh season could have been so much more with Sorkin running the show. But nonetheless, it's all over and it's time for me to get on with my life. To extricate myself as much as is possible from that lovely alternate reality where somehow intelligence won out over mediocrity.
The Virginia Tech shootings on monday - I've been meaning to write down my thoughts about them all week, but I realised I have nothing to say. Other than that, as many others around the world have said, my thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims. What else can one say about such an event?
I have been pondering the fact that nowadays every time I see a news bulletin there seems to be some new report on climate change/global warming, with damning predictions about the repercussions of our actions. But I realise, I'm sure there were probably just as many of these reports floating around 4 years ago, it's just that now they are reported in commercial media. Likewise I notice events like Earth Day, channel 7 launching some sort of Cool The Globe campaign (fronted by the Sunrise team, of course) and all sorts of other Global Warming related events. And I just can't help thinking that if anyone has the right to say "Boo-Yah!" right now, it's Al Gore. People said he couldn't change anything, but he has put a spotlight (with an energy saving light bulb, of course) on Global Warming in a way that no one else has been able to do in the past. And if this is what he can achieve while "unemployed", kind of makes me wonder what he could have achieved if he'd gotten that job, you know, as the most powerful man in the world?
So the rain's stopped and it's cooled down now. But even if the rain did nothing to solve our water woes, it certainly made me feel a whole lot better about my week! And I think I've emptied my head sufficiently for the night. Except to say this: I had forgotten how intoxicating it can be to be happy on a sunday night.
And Dylan Moran tomorrow night!
1) I should not drive while there's lightning around, I always have been fascinated by it and tonight it almost caused me to run into a roadworks truck...
2) I love Brisbane. I really do. Despite the many things that drive me insane on a regular basis, I can't help but fall in love with it all over again every time I drive over that bridge. Especially when there's a thunderstorm. Where else do you get a 30 degree maximum and a thunderstorm in the evening in the middle of autumn?
3) It's raining. It's finally raining. Forecast all week, finally delivered. And the fact that this makes me so ecstatically happy just makes me realise that it doesn't take a whole lot to make me happy.
Other things I wish to discuss this evening:
The last episode of West Wing finally aired last night on ABC. And lovely as it was, I can't help but feel that the entire seventh season could have been so much more with Sorkin running the show. But nonetheless, it's all over and it's time for me to get on with my life. To extricate myself as much as is possible from that lovely alternate reality where somehow intelligence won out over mediocrity.
The Virginia Tech shootings on monday - I've been meaning to write down my thoughts about them all week, but I realised I have nothing to say. Other than that, as many others around the world have said, my thoughts are with the family and friends of the victims. What else can one say about such an event?
I have been pondering the fact that nowadays every time I see a news bulletin there seems to be some new report on climate change/global warming, with damning predictions about the repercussions of our actions. But I realise, I'm sure there were probably just as many of these reports floating around 4 years ago, it's just that now they are reported in commercial media. Likewise I notice events like Earth Day, channel 7 launching some sort of Cool The Globe campaign (fronted by the Sunrise team, of course) and all sorts of other Global Warming related events. And I just can't help thinking that if anyone has the right to say "Boo-Yah!" right now, it's Al Gore. People said he couldn't change anything, but he has put a spotlight (with an energy saving light bulb, of course) on Global Warming in a way that no one else has been able to do in the past. And if this is what he can achieve while "unemployed", kind of makes me wonder what he could have achieved if he'd gotten that job, you know, as the most powerful man in the world?
So the rain's stopped and it's cooled down now. But even if the rain did nothing to solve our water woes, it certainly made me feel a whole lot better about my week! And I think I've emptied my head sufficiently for the night. Except to say this: I had forgotten how intoxicating it can be to be happy on a sunday night.
And Dylan Moran tomorrow night!