The Calm Before the Storm
Aug. 27th, 2011 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatIt's actually not totally calm, as it's already raining. I haven't been outside yet, though, so I'm not totally sure what it's like out there. I guess I'll find out when I leave for work in two hours. It would be nice if work closed, but I know that's not going to be the case. They never close for anything. Yesterday was crazy, with people trying to buy water and flashlights. Also potato chips, apparently, based on the status of that section of the store. I've never been down with emergency preparation shopping myself, but maybe those people will have the last laugh when I'm sitting here with no electricity or potato chips. I do have to wonder why everyone waits until the last minute to go into a shopping frenzy, though. And why didn't they already own flashlights? Have they never lost anything under the bed before? Anyway, they've totally shut down the shore communities, but I don't think it's supposed to be as bad this far inland. I hope the power doesn't go out, but that kind of seems like a petty concern. Regardless, I should probably finish this entry while we still have electricity.
All right, enough about the weather. Honestly, it bugs me how, when there's supposed to be some kind of storm coming up, that's all people will talk about. And it's not like they actually have anything to say. Nor do I, and I'm doing the same thing. So I'll take things back to Thursday, when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I walked on the boardwalk in Ocean City (the one in New Jersey, not the one in Maryland). It rained on and off, but fortunately it was mostly off while we were there. Pretty uneventful for the most part, except for our encounter with a couple who were planning on getting married on Saturday, but they had to cancel and do it right then instead. They were inviting anyone who came by to attend, so we observed the beach wedding of two people we didn't know at all. I believe their names were Brent and Carol.
And then there's this.
Futurama - Cold Warriors - This one, in which Fry inadvertently brought back the long-dead common cold, was quite good. It was one that had flashbacks to Fry's old life in the twentieth century interspersed throughout, and I thought that worked well. Fry's dad is always amusing. I have to wonder that Fry managed to live in the future for ten years or so before catching a cold, but I guess we'll have to let that go. He also didn't know about Parade Day until "Ghost in the Machines," even though they'd presumably had it every year. I was kind of disappointed that, when Zapp Brannigan put the quarantine sheet over all of Manhattan, there was no reference to the similarity to the dome in the Simpsons Movie. Overall, though, it had a clever plot that made use of the future setting, and was funny throughout, so I give it high marks. Well, I would if I gave marks, anyway.
All right, enough about the weather. Honestly, it bugs me how, when there's supposed to be some kind of storm coming up, that's all people will talk about. And it's not like they actually have anything to say. Nor do I, and I'm doing the same thing. So I'll take things back to Thursday, when
bethje and I walked on the boardwalk in Ocean City (the one in New Jersey, not the one in Maryland). It rained on and off, but fortunately it was mostly off while we were there. Pretty uneventful for the most part, except for our encounter with a couple who were planning on getting married on Saturday, but they had to cancel and do it right then instead. They were inviting anyone who came by to attend, so we observed the beach wedding of two people we didn't know at all. I believe their names were Brent and Carol.And then there's this.
Futurama - Cold Warriors - This one, in which Fry inadvertently brought back the long-dead common cold, was quite good. It was one that had flashbacks to Fry's old life in the twentieth century interspersed throughout, and I thought that worked well. Fry's dad is always amusing. I have to wonder that Fry managed to live in the future for ten years or so before catching a cold, but I guess we'll have to let that go. He also didn't know about Parade Day until "Ghost in the Machines," even though they'd presumably had it every year. I was kind of disappointed that, when Zapp Brannigan put the quarantine sheet over all of Manhattan, there was no reference to the similarity to the dome in the Simpsons Movie. Overall, though, it had a clever plot that made use of the future setting, and was funny throughout, so I give it high marks. Well, I would if I gave marks, anyway.
