So I've been watching this Hurricane Rita stuff on TV and have been obsessing about that. I appears to be the third windiest hurricane in history. However I have a prediction. I think it is going to hit right near the Texas/LA border. I think it will diminish and won't cause that much damage. But it is better to be safe than sorry. I know people who have family that are leaving Houston right now. One person says his family is staying. That is probably a bad idea. Another person's friend is stuck in traffic going 9mph leaving Houston. He says that people are stopping their cars in the middle of the road and are hopping out to get gas. It should take them 12-15 hours to get to here from Houston. Dallas is expected to get some rain. We need it. It has been in the 100s this week and my grass is turning yellow. (I suppose I could water it, but that'd be work). Everyone is running scared about this Hurricane. I reminds me of whenever it snows in Dallas - about once every other year. Everyone gets scared on the roads. When I first came to Texas from Alaska I couldn't help but laugh at the wimpy Texans afraid of the snow. But then I realized something. Because everyone was afraid school would be canceled. They never cancelled school in Alaska. I remember we had a blizzard of 60 below zero and I was walking to school in 20 feet of snow with a flashlight because of the darkness. Big hurricane, ha.

Thought of the Day
"Why don't you go out. It's nice out."
"Oh no, there's nothing out there for me."
"There's weather."
"Weather. I don't need weather. Weather doesn't do it for me."
- Jerry and Kramer, in "The Virgin"