…beyond nice.

Whoever you are that is in charge of weather for Seattle this year, you suck!  It’s the day before my annual backpacking trip, and there’s supposed to be a wind storm coming through and lights have been flickering at the office all day.  I had to work both days last weekend and I hear from people that the weather was fantastic?  Fuck you, you’re fired!
Less than a year ago, Seattlites scoffed at the idea of people being afraid of a little wind.  What wind coming this way?  We should all relax and try to harness some of that natural energy and do the earth a favor?  I’ll just go back to sipping my latte and toting my green bag to Whole Foods for some fine fresh produce.  Now we hear “wind storm” and people freak out, trample over each other to get to the power generators and stock up on Twinkies and bottled water.  During the last major storm, my girlfriend’s house was out of power for 2 weeks, she was 5 months pregnant at the time so she and her husband ran to her mom’s house.  When they went back to check on the house about a week after, there was a pool of blood in front of their fridge from the freezer thaw.
My trip is supposed to be 4 days/3 nights.  On the plus side, being out in the woods means I will not having to worry about trivial things like power outage, on the other side, I have to worry about other minor details - like whether or not my shelter will hold up in the storm.
Here’s another prayer for better weather.  In case you worry about me being out there, I’m about 4/5 of the way through the last Harry Potter book, I’ll be back soon enough to finish that damned thing.

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