Power outage, and more.

[valis2]

Yesterday I drove to WI. Today I drove back. Quite tired now.

I was going to check into LJ before I left yesterday, but I lost power at 4 am and it was still off when I left. Boohoo!

Funny things I saw:

• A Taurus stuffed with plants. Seriously. Stuffed. With plants. There was barely enough room for the driver. Looking into the back window was like looking into a jungle.



• A sign for a roadside attraction that has been deteriorating finally broke. It used to read "Fireworks blah blah blah". It now reads:
  
  O R K S
  THIS EXIT
  
  Well, how awesome is that? I never realized it was just that easy. I've been getting them mail order this whole time.



• Argh! I can't remember the third funny thing. I need to write this stuff down. This is going to make me mental.

Quick fabulous thing I just saw:


• THIS AMAZING SNAPE DRAWING by one of my favorite fanartists, the awesome snapesforte.

Not so awesome things that happened:


• I was going around 55 mph (in a huge SUV loaded to the gills) and a PT Cruiser cut in front of me suddenly. They were going 25 mph. It was a construction zone, and the road went from 55 to 25 in a mile, and it was a single lane road just after she cut in front of me with concrete barriers on both sides, and I had nowhere to go. I braked as best as I was able, and honked.
  
  I passed them when the road opened up again. She had four children in the car. Four. All unrestrained. And one of them threw a candy bar wrapper out the window while I was watching. Look, I don't usually like to use the LJ to harangue people, but this made me really, really upset. She, and her children, all would have been very, very seriously injured had I not been able to stop. Even a little tap could have sent them into the barriers. I had seen the sign for the slow down, and had begun to slow down already, and I'm just thankful that I was not traveling any faster than I was. Argh!



• I picked okay on the toll lanes, except for one lane, where the car ahead of me apparently had to have the dictionary read to them. Backwards.

So this weekend is a show, but it's here in my area, but I still have to stay at a hotel, but I'll be checking in periodically, but then I'm leaving Monday. Craziness, huh?

Comments

[elddonnemar.livejournal.com]

Warhammer, a fantasy war game, has creatures named orks, and no, they are not wussier than orcs.

Is the last sentence to express a recognition for the necessity of a standardized parenting licenses?

[bell-witch.livejournal.com]

I've heard of Warhammer, but certainly never played and didn't know they had orks there.

Wouldn't it make more sense for parents to have to take a class, or something? So much of it seems like common sense, but we pretty much know that sense isn't very common at all. Like leaving your kids locked in the car (during the summer) for a couple of hours while you get your nails done. And they were alive when the mom came out, but they were looking rather poor (ya think?) and so she was scared to take them anywhere because she'd get in trouble, so she drove around and they died. Those children didn't deserve that, and that mother shouldn't be allowed to have children. But that's just my opinion on the subject.

And I don't like kids. But I'd never do anything like that.