Everyone needs to panic. We are probably going to get 1 to 3 inches of rain here. This is devastating. I don't know how we will survive. Last night my car, needed gas. I know because it goes below the line and starts beeping at me. Normally that's OK and on guys night I just stop in at the the local 7-11 and get gas. But in going through the apocalypse now I guess it is harder to do. I go to the first gas station and I am telling you these gas stations around here are huge. 12-14 lanes of pumps. All of them were taken with lines for each of them. Fine, I decide to try another gas station. After braving 100,000 cars I hit another gas station. This time there aren't as many cars. There was a reason. They were out of all their gas except for premium. I said, screw it, I'm going to fill up. Then I go to Best Buy and get a new mp3 player. I got a very thin IRiver that holds 6 gigs, an FM radio, a photo viewer and is compatible with windows media player all for $50 less than the 4 Gig Ipod Nano. I am happy with it, especially since it plays most of my MP3's without having to do any kind of conversion like the IPOD and Napster players do. I've already filled it up with over 1000 songs. Then we go to Chili's and have their very good burger. As we drive back to my house I notice that the gas station I was at had bags over all of their pumps. Yeah, I'd say people are panicking. Right now I am at the office and 2 of my co-workers are "working from home" because of the roads. But somehow I was able to brave it out and get to work. Actually there were less cars on my road than normal. I think because the routes to work are not the ones where everyone is on. My co-worker who has friends coming from Houston says he expects them in the afternoon, 35 hours after they left Houston. That's got to be some kind of world record for slowest commute. It is almost claustrophobic the way Dallas is becoming infiltrated by these Houstonites. I used to have clear driving near my house. It just feels more cramped with multiple stops at stoplights. I had to shout out my window last night as I was driving near the gas station,"Go back To Houston!"

Thought of the Day

"Well, my swimming pool problems are solved. I just found myself miles and miles of open lanes."
"What is that smell?"
"That's East River."
"You're swimming in the East River? The most heavily trafficked, overly contaminated waterway on the eastern seaboard?"
"Technically, Norfolk has more gross tonnage."
"How could you swim in that water?"
"I saw a couple other guys out there."
"Swimming?"
"Well... floating. They weren't moving much, but they were out there."
- Kramer and Jerry, in "The Nap"