Solonor's Inkwell

I think Charley got pissed off at people mis-spelling his name “Charlie”. It had nothing to do with some lunatics who doubted his manhood by ignoring his bluster and pretending he wasn’t there. (Yes, it’s true. Unlike the intelligent people around the area, we did not spend the storm in the bathroom. We lit candles and played games. Buncha morons.)

But we survived the 100mph winds with minimal damage. We were extremely lucky. A 60-foot pine tree in our front yard fell over in the only way it could have and not caused any damage. It brushed up against the side of our house, but a foot or two the other way… I’ve got a couple pics of it to upload later.

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The fellow who runs this place made a statement, not that long ago, that SpiderMan 2 was The.Best.Comicbook.Movie.Ever. Or some such.

I don’t know as I want to argue that point with him. (Actually, I don’t want to argue much with him, ‘cuz he always wins arguments. With me anyway.)

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To hear the TV news crews, we’re all under 40 feet of water and expecting more. But Charley’s weakening, and hopefully by the time it gets here in another couple of hours, it should be a little less of a threat. We haven’t seen much of anything around here. I think it had enough fun ripping up the poor people in Port Charlotte and Fort Myers.

I’m going to go try to watch the Olympics. If the power goes out or anything, I’ll blog about it by candlelight. Deal?

This is a test of the emergency blogging system. If this were an actual emergency, this message would be followed by screams of panic, high wind noises, rain, thunder and lightning and death.. – Kat

The latest projection from the National Hurricane Center could bring Hurricane Charley closer to Orlando.

OK, OK, so I went out and got like water and peanut butter and stuff. Happy now?

Still, Kat and Robyn, et al. (Hi, Al!!) aren’t heading for the hills, so I’m not worried.

Wanna know how Chez Norton prepares itself for a hurricane?

Well, since we both had to work yesterday (and today I might add), neither one of us had much chance to get to the store. When the Mrs finally did get around to going out for basic necessities (you know… Pop Tarts), there were none to be found. So, she bought ice cream instead.

When we looked in the cupboard, we found precious little food – even though Whiny said he’d still be able to eat the ramen noodles if the power were out (mmm… crunchay…) So, last night we went to our neighborhood Chinese restaurant, specifically for the leftovers.

And since the kids have no school today, and all the stuff we were scheduled to do there tomorrow was cancelled (senior pictures… laptop distribution…), Whiny is preparing an RPG session for the four of us for Saturday.

Batteries? Um…
Bottled water? Er…
Canned food? Couple a cans of Spaghetti O’s?
Candles? Check.
Pretzels and Chex Mix? Check.
Dice, paper and pencils? Check.

Yep. We’re ready. Bring it on, Charley!

Seriously… be safe all you people on the west coast (Kat, Dragonleg, Kathy, Lewis…) Same goes for all you Central Floridians, too!