Hello??? Anybody there??? Gee, it has been a week since I blogged any. Part of the reason is I was without my laptop for a couple of days. The other reason is…well, I have been a little busy at home and extremely busy at work, so my mind seems to be going into overload. It’s like plugging too many things in an electrical outlet. If you run too much power through, it blows a circuit. That’s how I have felt this week.
Last weekend…..is just a blur. After Karla and I spent three hours at our storage facility going through boxes and tossing junk, I spent the rest of my afternoon at a friend’s house in north OKC, watching the OU and OSU football game. After the game, as I was heading home on I-44, I turned my REACT two-way radio on to see if anything was going on. Almost immediately after I turned it on, I heard a few of my REACT team members discussing an earthquake. It seems as if we had a 5.6 earthquake in central Oklahoma and I did not even feel it. Of course, I was in my small truck, going against a strong south wind, so even if there was an earthquake, my truck was shaking already from the wind, so I would not have felt it anyway. When I got home, my whole family was still up because they felt the earthquake. Since Daylight Savings Time was ending, it was time for us to set our clocks back one hour. That meant I actually went to bed at 10:30 pm.
I was up early on Sunday morning so I could work on the PowerPoint for the morning worship service. It’s nice to get up before everyone else does because I can get more done with no distractions. It was a good day. After church, Karla and I went to lunch with a deacon from our church and his wife. We had a good time of food and fellowship. Then, it was time to go back to the church for a REACT team meeting. After the meeting, I was going to head home…..but I learned in church that morning our quartet was singing Sunday night, so I had to stay.
I have never liked Daylight Savings Time. I hate to Spring forward and I hate falling back. Why can’t they leave our time alone? Now, when it starts getting dark, I want to automatically go to bed. I was in bed early on Sunday and Monday night. Last night, I had to do some work in my office, so I actually stayed up until 10:15 pm. I was wide awake by 5 am.
The last two evenings have been very uneventful. Monday evening, the weather started getting bad in western Oklahoma and radar showed it was heading our way. So, at around 16:30, our REACT President activated our team and we went into storm spotting mode. Several large tornadoes were spotted in SW Oklahoma, but fortunately, they were in an areas that were open fields, so they did very little damage. The storms were moving in our direction, so we were getting prepared to meet them as they came in. As we watched the radar, we noticed the storms took a northward turn. Because of that, they were going to miss OKC, so there was nothing for us to spot. We were still going to eventually get some small hail, heavy rain and lightning, but no tornadoes or strong winds.
Today has been a very busy day at the office. To top it all off, I am still training a couple of people how to dispatch. Tomorrow, I will probably spend all day training, so I will not get much done at my desk. These busy days wear me out mentally.
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