How Cool!

[deird_lj]

We just had our very own earthquake!

Apparently measured 4.7 on the Richter scale - which might be mini to you overseas living-on-a-faultline-people (or might not, I have no idea), but out here, it's pretty exciting.

I was babysitting Caleb at the time, and the stovepipe for my sister's fireplace was rattling incredibly loudly. And the couch was shaking.
I started mentally calculating how long it would take me to run into Caleb's room, grab him out of bed, sprint to the back door, and dive for cover before the house collapsed... and then the earthquake settled down.

So, no death-defying leaps from collapsing buildings today.

Comments

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Heh. I've never had an earthquake and don't exactly live on a faultline, so I'm impressed. Americans don't all live in California. XD

But yay for the lack of death-defying leaps! Always a sign of a quality day.

[deird1]

You mean you don't all live in a big city with frequent earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, snowstorms, and celebrity sightings?

*world-view collapses in a heap*

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Heh. Sorry to ruin your dreams.

Also, I'm wondering: do you wrestle crocodiles while wearing funny little safari hats, standing in knee-high mud and petting kangaroos and emus?

[deird1]

Always.

Well, kinda.

Actually, no...




I ate a kangaroo steak yesterday, does that count for anything?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

UM NO.

...unless you petted the steak before you ate it. :P


But I read somewhere - mental_floss, I think - that eating kangaroos is better for the environment, cause they don't give off the gross methane gas and stuff that cows do. So good for you.

Apparently, Australia's the only country to eat both of the animals on it's coat of arms. So, um, good for you?


...kind of creepy, actually.

[deird1]

Hmm... Never eaten emu. Maybe I should try it?

Kangaroo's pretty yummy, actually. And remarkably cheap.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Well, surely you want to be able to say that you've eaten both of the animals on your coat of arms, right?

No idea what it tastes like, though.

Huh - I wouldn't have thought that kangaroo is yummy, for some reason - I guess cause it's not something that Americans ever eat, because we, um, have no kangaroos here.