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So if you haven’t heard already, there was a tremendous wind storm in the Seattle area on Thursday and Friday, with winds from 60mph to over 100mph. This took down trees and power lines all over the area and has led stupid people to do stupid things, entire families to die from their mistakes, smart people to get caught off guard, and intuition affording one family amazing luck. The death toll at this writing is a dozen people but there’s undoubtedly more to come.

My problems started on Wednesday, when heavy rains and strong winds were enough to start taking down trees. One in particular at the bottom of my driveway went down and hit a power line across the street on its way, sometime mid-morning Wednesday. I made it out to work at 7:30am, but I found this when I came home at 4:00pm:

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A question for all the men, and the women who love them, in the audience: How often do you awaken in the morning, and once your day gets rolling, discover you’re finding yourself more emotional than usual? Whether it’s being more passionate in your response to the morning zoo’s antics on the radio during your commute, people on the road annoying you to an unusual degree, the wife and kids bothering you more than usual, or hearing a song that seems to have an unusually profound effect on you. Ever feel yourself overreacting and not knowing why? The next question is, are these all manifestations of different types of emotion, or different manifestations of the same emotion? When I recently had it happen to me, it clearly was the latter. This emotion could have manifested itself in many different ways–not all of them pleasant–but fortunately, it went the way of simple joy. It’s a great thing to experience, especially without the use of any chemical compounds.

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I have to say, my faith in my fellow voters has been restored after Tuesday. At least we sent the only message we could, shit’s got to change. Seems like Washington got the message loud and clear, and I’m glad Rumsfeld was sent packing, but it’s only a start. Cheney’s a fucking loon as well, and he needs to find himself a nice retirment hobby at the NRA’s shooting range out there off I-66 in Chantilly.
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