But we're having some unusual(ly colorful) weather here -- I have never seen anything like it! Usually all I see are the green, purple and blue colors I circled here. Maybe a little yellow. But orange and white, never. 
Posted on 11/04/2007 11:30:22 AM PST by Fennie
The rain has stopped and it's now foggy.
I hope the doctor can give her something to make her feel better.
Will she be going with you on your trip?
I looked up the forecasts for where I'll be. Rain in both, mixed with snow in Vienna.
‘Tis the season!
I’m glad we don’t have to shovel rain... ;o]
Hello! I’ve been to Wal-mart, been to Mass (Spanish) and now I’ve got Cuban beans on the stove and a glass of wine (used some for the beans :-).
Now we’re going to bless the Advent wreath before Anoreth goes to Mass and youth group.
But we're having some unusual(ly colorful) weather here -- I have never seen anything like it! Usually all I see are the green, purple and blue colors I circled here. Maybe a little yellow. But orange and white, never.
“Five degrees right rotation..” the command was muffled by various other chatter over the comms.
Bots of all sizes and kinds were scuttling about, preparing, servicing equipment.
“Target in sight, LIDAR locked, RADAR locked, scanning surface.” one couldn’t tell from listening that the speakers were staring a violent vacuum purge in the face.
“Minor cratering and weathering, looks like we’ve got a chondrite. Spectrograph checks out.”
“Good, make ready.” tension mounted, spiderbots froze in place, maglocked to the surface of the ship, forelegs waving outward as they sensed what their brains told them was inevitable.
“On my mark... FIRE.”
There was the faintest hint of the lights dimming, an almost imperceptible bass rumble in the deck plating.
“Darken viewscreen.”
The viewscreen dimmed just in time as the stony asteroid brightened to sunlike brilliance, the victim of a defensive blast from the teleFRAG.
The screen cleared, and the scanners showed empty space where the chondrite had been.
The teleFRAG, an accidental byproduct of failed teleportation experiments, actually did teleport an object.
Albeit unstably.
The object would appear briefly before literally exploding into ninety nine percent pure energy, quite violently.
The volume of a cup of water could boil the oceans dry.
A bowling ball could annihilate asteroids.
The potential was staggering, mind bending.
And, absurd for what the group used it for.
“I got the next space rock.”
“Anyone seen my bowling ball?”
Several people paused.
“Uh, no. No we haven’t.”
And so it went in space traffic control at the Flying Castle.
Hi!
I made it to church! (It’s about time! I thought for sure the roof was going to cave in...)
Since I have errands to run tomorrow morning, I decided not to go anywhere today. But then, I don’t usually do anything on Sundays that isn’t absolutely necessary.
Tomorrow, I’ll be sure to pick up a bottle of wine for dinner. Who knows what I might find in Wally World?
:o])
I told you it would work...
YOIKS!!!!
Now THAT is a weather map! Holy fog horns and studded tires, Batman!
Yeah, but now we’re short a bowling ball.
I was driving in that mess last night. Yeesh.
I’m glad you got to church! Do you have a tv station where you can watch a church service (with a nice choir!) when you’re feeling poorly?
Tom and I found some nice gifts at Wal-mart this morning, although it took us a while. A few of the kids still have to get presents for each other for St. Nicholas’ Day (Thursday), so we’ll need another trip later in the week. Probably we’ll be out of skim milk by Tuesday, anyway!
You’re quite a marksman, Darks! We’re fortunate to have you around.
In the meantime, we do have 14 basketballs, 23 soccer-balls, 101 baseballs, and a LOT of assorted rocks from various projects. I think we've even got a bocce ball set somewhere. That's at least 8 more shots.
Wasn’t me, was DC.
I don't know which would have been worse, driving in that or being home sick.
Well, sharp eyes, then, Dead Corpse!
Remind me NOT to watch the dwarven miners perform their ritual ear cleaning.
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