Holy Moly We're Having a Storm | Homo sarcasmus - a new species of blog from Heath L. Buckmaster

04 Jan, 2008

Holy Moly We’re Having a Storm

We are having a hot mess of a storm here in the Sacramento area.

They are saying we are having the worst winds in 10 years. Already, our huge butterfly bush in the back yard has tipped over almost into the pond. I’ve got it braced with a chair, but the root ball is up and out of the ground.

Miraculously, the power hasn’t gone out yet…but who knows. This storm is supposed to stick around for a few day. What a joy .

Anyway – safe wishes to those of you in storm areas, especially in the Sierra’s where they are calling for 10 feet of snow to dump today.

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1 | Jon

January 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm

Hope you guys are staying safe!

2 | Tommy Marx

January 4th, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Stay safe! I’m in Costa Mesa (I fly back to Portland tomorrow morning) and beyond a little wind we haven’t seen anyhing bad yet.

Are you excited about American Idol starting up soon? I’m hoping this year will be better – supposedly they’re gonna spend more time with the contestants like they used to. I remember when they used to film the contestants doing projects together, going places, and just bonding. I miss that.

3 | heath

January 5th, 2008 at 10:01 am

Well the storm is over – it ended yesterday afternoon/evening pretty much, but we’re supposed to have another on the way.

There is damage all over the city. Everywhere we drove there were downed trees and debris all over the roads. We were very lucky to only have one tree significantly damaged, and that is the butterfly bush that is about 12 feet tall, and it just tipped directly over toward the pond.

We’re going to right it today and try to brace the base with stones/bricks, and hopefully it will do just fine.

As for AI: Absolutely! I don’t know that I will be blogging as intensely about it this year, since some people seem to avoid my blog for a few months when I do that – but I will certainly be offering my opinions and thoughts, perhaps once weekly.

4 | Tommy Marx

January 5th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Wow, I’m surprised people would avoid your blog then, but I guess if they don’t watch American Idol, it might not be as much fun. I’m gonna do the second blog thing again, although I might skip the first two weeks – the auditions are so manipulated and staged, I inevitably end up getting annoyed by them.

5 | heath

January 6th, 2008 at 8:38 pm

Well I’m thinking that what I might do is create a “page” in wordpress and have one running page that is just american idol.

I can break it up into sections, create a little menu, etc, so people can jump to exactly the section they want (auditions, voting, etc.)

We’ll see. I haven’t played around with wordpress pages too much, other than the polls archive, and Heath’s Book Recommendations…

heath: Oh Tommy...your comments mirror those of the Dawg as well. They thought Lee's voice was too big for the song. I don't think it was too big, but I can
Tommy Marx: Gotta disagree with you on this one sweetie. Yes, Crystal and Siobhan were definitely the best of the women, and while I didn't like the song he sang,
heath: Glad we're on the same page regarding Lee ;-). Otherwise, I'm really bored this year. I was hoping that we'd have another big personality like Adam L