Steve Rocks Out!!

Hmmmm....

Hard travel week. Last night and I work most of the day tomorrow before I fly back. I am at a city where when I heard the weather forecast today I laughed. They said it would be good for running on Saturday because it was going to be 17. Ouch!! What the fuck, am I picking up a Canadian station. Sure, it was out of Vancouver.

This song came on the radio after they said the weather. It was cool... I think I was like 8 or 9 when I first heard it back in the day when it came out. So I had to roll down the windows in my Jeep Commander I am renting when it came on and feel the breeze off the ocean. I don't know, the song is totally cheesy but it felt good to rock out even if it was Bryan Adams. I'll go back to my iPod and listen to Rage or the Mxpx version of this song to bring it all back.

This week sucks because I have had to keep my emotions checked while I deal with work. Thinking and doing a lot of fun things at work, doing what I do, but having to stop once in a while because of some creeping pain up my back or the fact that my left arm goes numb like it is now when I type. It sucks that the MRI is not showing me a path I can take to help myself out. I put work in check this week and did the right thing. But now, it's time to fly back home tomorrow afternoon and deal with it this weekend when I'll have no energy or will be hurting. I think I give each day 80% of my potential but I feel like I am making 150% effort. And by now, everyone I know, knows because they have seen me get out of a chair or a car the last 2 years. It is just tough.

It sucks...

Total Carnage!!

South Central Rain by REM

We lost 30 feet or so of fence all the way to the back yard on one side of the house. And one of our storm windows on the porch blew out. I sat and waited until things were gonna cost me more than my time before I called in a claim.

I wanted some KFC so I drove out in the middle of this thing. Oh my God!!! Trees uprooted out of the ground. Branches fallen on houses and cars. It is flat out pandemonium. It's awesome. I am not the only one with a fence down. They are down all over the neighborhood.

And for those who don't believe it snows in California, here is a webcam. 10 feet expected in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

There are 1,000,000 people without power in the area. I-5 is closed by the Sacramento Airport. Flights are canceled.

And we ain't seen nothing yet.

Storm Warning...

Updated: Best Bob Dylan version of any song, Shelter from the Storm

One thing I never write about is the weather. I am a freak when it comes to meteorology. I love big weather events. Heat waves, cold snaps, rain and snowfall totals ...the bigger the number (or in case of the cold, the lower... I want to see it) I check the weather frequently. It's the first thing book marked on each computer and my Treo phone.

We are about to get nailed in No Cal. A series of storms are coming in and I am all giddy for it. They are talking about 70 mile an hour gusts this weekend... many inches of rain. I can't freaking wait for it!! I want to stand out in it cleaning my drains...helping the water gush down. The scary thing: Next to New Orleans, Sacramento is the worst region in the country when it comes to flood catastrophes. Bring on Anderson Cooper!!!

I'll be awake all night when I hear it coming. Seeing the trees blow... power outages. I love sitting at the window yelling "Holy Shit...Holy shit..." It's awesome. When I was a little boy living in the city we had this gutter that would plug because the people across the street would dump their used oil into it. And when it would rain... it would flood the gutter. The street would have like 7 inches of water on their side and I used to like watching the water fly when cars drove by.

Then in the country, behind my parents house was like this sheer cliff made of bedrock or something. And the water would saturate the sandy soil for acres around. The water would literally seep out of the side of the hill and gush over this wall of bedrock 50-60 feet until it hit the hill down into the valley and eventually into the lake. It was fascinating to see this after a big storm. Some poor bastard bought that property a few years ago and built a house on the track this water flows after a major storm. I wonder if he knows this is coming? This water fall is only 40 yards or so beyond my parents property line.

Mother nature is something else...

I don't know why....