Why I love Australians

After reading the article about the real shark found at the Massachusetts beach where Jaws was filmed ( a movie that ruined my summer vacation at St. Petersburg Beach in Florida that year because I didn’t go deeper than 2 feet into the ocean ), I read the related article about a shark being discovered in a swimming pool in Australia. It’s a brief and interesting report found here.

The part that killed me was this quote:

“It’s funny, though, because we have swimmers who come here at 6am every morning to do laps. It’s still dark then and they mustn’t have even noticed it was there.”

Really? This guy thinks it’s funny that those poor unsuspecting folks swam their laps and weren’t gobbled up? Well…since nothing tragic happened, then I guess, yeah, I would have loved to have seen their faces when they discovered it. Unlike that fake picture of the divers with the giant great white behind them, this seems like the real thing.

more entries for the Darwin awards

Hey Danny, this is in our DNA. Just sayin’. The San Fermin festival and running of the bulls going on right now. Why aren’t you there?

Are you kidding?

note my useless laptop under the candle
note my useless laptop under the candle

We lost power. Again. It’s been a strange weekend. It turns out a creepy little storm cropped up in the afternoon and scared the peepersĀ  out of us. It was sudden and dramatic, as the best storms are. John and I sat outside to watch the rain when lightning hit what seemed like next door. As we stood up to go inside, lightning hit the transformer in our yard. Talk about scaring the poop out of us! No sooner had we recovered when it hit the tansformer again, totally knocking out our power.

The good boys from the power company finally made it out here to replace the transformer. Life is infinitely better when there’s A/C.

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