It’s odd! We were just talking about earthquakes at the office yesterday and this morning, we have one! I think that today we should talk about me winning the Australian Lottery!
So, here’s what
happened: I have completely acclimated to the time zone (well, it has been
nearly two months here – long enough that I can count this as a place I have “lived”
using the reckoning of having paid rent/mortgage twice and having received mail…but
I digress…) and so, it was early to bed, early to rise for me.
I went to bed around
ten last night, shortly after I got in from dinner/beers with my colleagues.
Heading to bed that early, I was up before five and as is my nature, I do not
hang-about in bed in the mornings, I am an early riser and got up more-or-less
immediately.
So right about five, I felt
a vibration through my feet and heard the shade rattle against the window
casing. Now, years ago, when I was living in Memphis, there was an earthquake
that I felt there. At that time I had failed to recognize it as such as I was
more-or-less out of it on flu medications.
This time, I was
clear-headed, awake, and thinking about earthquakes, as we had just talked
about them a few hours ago – I recognized it immediately for what it was.
Though, as the course of the conversation had run along the lines of “…they so seldom
happen here…” so I was a bit reticent to believe it.
Until I finally turned
on the morning news to hear them confirm it, that is. The Sunrise program has just given me the details. It was a 3.4 and the
epicenter was approximately 40km to the west of here. So, yes, I really did
feel the earth move! It was exciting.
Wherever you are this
morning I hope that you enjoy your day has a little excitement in it!
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