Lika’s Log

Thursday night we had a big monsoon storm. Heavy duty rain for hours. We sat in the garage; watched the lighting and listened to the thunder. God took our picture a thousand times. *L* Lighting streaking across the sky is really pretty yeah.

It was about 9:30pm and my son says Mom check this out. So were watching the storm from the safety of our garage. Anden the light went out in the garage. Get the flashlight! Then we started cracking up cause it was just the automatic light attached to the garage opener that turned off automatically. We sat in the dark and let our pictures get taken. LOL DH says listen! All I could hear was a rumbling sound. Kind of like a train coming down the track but in a distance. It was just a constant rumble. DH says when people talk about a tornado sounding like a freight train passing by that’s the sound they are talking about. He said he hadn’t heard that sound in ages. It’s a common sound in Oklahoma or any tornado ally state.

The storm went on for hours. Rain. Lighting. Thunder. More rain. Less lightning. Less thunder. Still raining. That’s a monsoon in the valley.

So this morning we go to work and you know we really do carpool, HOV lane aka diamond lane. We hear on the radio about all these closings. Water. No electricity, no traffic lights. It didn’t mention the area where we work up on Central Ave. We decide to stop at Safeway/Starbucks. But oops its closed. Must be no electricity. So we go on to work ooops big ass tree across the road. Go down another road, oops more debris. We finally get to DH’s building and oops everybody is outside. It’s about 7:20am. So I drop him off. I go to my building, 1 block up.

OOPs the new light rail stop canopy thingee is in the intersection that I need to turn left at. There are work crews and TV camera crews there. I gotta go up another block then come back down. Finally I get to work and in our courtyard you see trash every where. Well actually it was insulation and someones roof in many many pieces scattered all over. No electricity. No phones. Which means, NO WORK. Its Friday, the long weekend just got longer. wooohooo

[No I didn’t take that picture. Its from da bucket. LOL]

See more storm pictures here:

Storm Pictures

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My thought is I don’t care if you Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, Unitarin or Sagitarian, just vote. You know what I mean. I don’t care if you left, right or kapakahi, shut up and vote. OK fine talk talk talk, grumble grumble grumble. Go vote.

I believe what I believe and you believe what you belive. Its all good. Nobody hurting or harming each ada, nobody being mean and disrespecting one another, cool just vote. I not going change your mind and I wouldn’t want to. As I wouldn’t want some one to do me like that either.

Some people are very passionate about their political stance. Passion is good. Juss no frkng try shovem down my throat, keep’um in your own troat! *L* You know what I mean. Personally I don’t think I need to be convinced of who to vote for. I make up my mind, vote and pau.

Alot of commercials tell why da ada person junk. It maybe true and it might not. Whats junk for you is not necessarily junk fo’me and vice versa. I think there should more commercials and education that focus on the importance of voting, rather then red or blue or R or D or rich or poor or whateva.

Most people make up their own mind and are not influenced by TV commercials. My thought is just cause you say you are one party or another doesn’t mean that you are going to vote for the nominated person. The only person who knows that is you. You can say whoever it is you want to say you voted for. You are the only person who knows for sure who you voted for, yeah.

Some people like to brag. See I was right. You was wrong. See if you had done this that or the other; life would be different. Puh-leese. Save it for somebody who has nothing better to do then listen to your words of wisdom aka gloating. I have a life that does not include using up my time to listen to how right somebody else is about an election.

I don’t see my life changing drastically either way. How many Presidents have I been thru and I’m still me because of the choices I made. Well aren’t we all. LOL

I’m not a politically minded person. I’m wishywashy by nature. I’m even bribe-able. If MY one vote would make the difference in an election, would I do what is right. Will I vote for the person who I believe will truely make a difference? Will I vote for the person of my selected party? Would I vote for whichever candidate I have a connection to, cause you know his stepbrudahs mahdahs fahdahs cousin NT is my classmate? OR would I go to the highest bidder? Hmmmm decisions decisions. I am voting, thats a given. Ok so who den?

Which brings me to da question, how much is a vote worth - money wise? I think everyone has a price. Some may say there is no dollar amount that could buy their vote. I think that could be the correct answer. But being the wishywashy deeply in debt shoppaholic that wants to travel but can’t afford to person that I am, a million sounds like a good round number. *L*

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I’m not a big politico person other then I vote. My participation in politics is basically voter and spectator. I never really paid attention to all the hoopla going on at the convention and all that.

I have the TV on whatever station it is that has the Convention coverage. I have it on as background noise. Checking it now and then, sit down get up, do something else, attention deficit. I’m thinking if I watch it long enough the cameras will find people that I know are there. Then I can say “hey I saw you on TV.” No such luck yet because I’ve not watched it that long. Besides usually they have all the news & political analyst analyzing. There’s always two sides right, one person to praise it to death and the other to dissect it to pieces. Well can’t have the good with out the bad or vise versa.

I listened to pieces of Michelle’s Obama speech. I liked it. I don’t care if the spousal speech is this, that or the other. But of course the TV people have to tell you all this, that or the other because that’s their job. Whatever. She did excellent. Nice dress. If she becomes First Lady, she be the first First Lady with a booty. Baby got back. Lotta junk inda trunk. Thats a good thing. Beats talking about a flat ass and pantsuits. Ooohh did I say that. LOL

Tomorrow night Hillary speaks. What color pantsuit do you think she’ll wear? What I noticed during the campaign is that I never saw her in the same pantsuit twice. What does have to do with anything I don’t know, but I was thinking she must have 365 pantsuits, one for each day of the year.

I must be growing up if I can listen/watch bits & pieces of the Convention. I’m still hoping to see people I know on TV.

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