The Sunday Morning Fuzzies - Mother Nature is pissed off edition

A crazy weekend. The earthquake in Chile brought some tension for sure.  First off, I wish the best for anyone there and the best to the people here that have family over there that they haven't heard from yet. Man, too close to the Haiti incident, and Haiti was only a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, Chile was a 8.8! With the strange weather we've had this Winter (we've actually had a mild one, but most of the country has been rocked quite hard) it makes you wonder just what the hell is going on.

Amazing with the power of that quake that there weren't near as many deaths as the Haiti incident.  It shows you what a solid infrastructure will do.

Just a quick elaboration on the Richter scale if you'll indulge me. If you're not familiar with it, its a logarithmic scale and it is the general metric they use for measuring the power of an earthquake. For every whole number increase, the magnitude of the quake is 10 times greater. So a 6.0 on the richter scale is 10 times as strong as a 5.0, and a 7.0 is 100 times stronger then a 5.0. So the difference between 7.0 and 8.8 is nearly 100 times more powerful! To be more exact it is around 80 times more powerful, but you get the picture.  Mother Nature has been throwing around a LOT of weight lately. Kind of scary. Makes one question how wise that planned oceanfront property purchase is in the near future, if you catch my drift.


So all good thoughts go out to Chile, and our coast and Hawaii were spared. Next time? Who knows. Let's hope that this isn't the beginning of a worsening pattern.


I learned a few things this weekend as well.


I watched Paranormal Activity finally last night. My thoughts: One, it was kind of 'Blair Witch Project part 3' for me, but I liked it better than BW 1 (BW2 didn't even belong!) No relationship with the stories, completely different movies, just the style it was created in. The "we are video taping a real life documentary" style. I did get somewhat creeped out after watching it however, and I was hearing a few sounds that night when trying to sleep. :) 1 1/2 thumbs up on that one. I did like the ending, the alternate ending kinda sucked.


Garbage disposals don't handle beer bottle caps very well. Take my word on that. Don't try this at home.


It seems like when you go to the gym at 5 - 5:30am during the week, you see some dedicated people. Hit it at like 3pm on a weekend, and the goof balls all seem to come out. What is up with that?


The boarding kennel is fairly convinced that our dog is half Yellow Lab, half Pit Bull. Our last dog was a Lab/Pit mix, and it's a good mix. Problem is, we bought the puppy at Scamps (mistake) and he was sold as a purebred, papers and all! He was all yellow at that age, but got the white spotting on his chest as he got older. He's also stockier then a pure lab would be. We got ripped off in other words. Now we've suspected this for a while, and we love this dog and would not part with him because he's the coolest, sweetest dog that there is. It sucks though to know those pet shop bastards got one over on us. At least they are out of business now, the Clackamas Promenade one is at least. Lesson learned: NEVER buy a dog or cat from a pet store. Not only are they mistreated while they are there, but you don't know what you are buying either. Fail on the source of our puppy, Win on having the best dog you can get DESPITE those ripoff artists.


This beautiful weather we've been having is great, but can we PLEASE have at least one more good freeze? That way all the damn sugar ants and fleas won't be so bad this year. PLEASE??   Damn, it sounds almost pathetic to complain about good weather because I've been out in it as much as possible, but I hate fleas...that is all!