In total contrast to the rant from yesterday evening, today has been pretty good.

We got slammed by a dissolving squall line coming in from Grand Rapids. Holy crap was that cool! The Malibu (*cue the Malibu song*) was rocking back and forth on its shocks, and I thought, “Did someone just hit me?” I look to my right, and see traffic lights, street signs, and trees getting thrashed by intense winds. So, of course, my brilliant response to myself was, “Oh.” Then I rushed home, at ‘s wisdom, to shut a bunch of windows. Then I got RAINED ON, and it was awesome.

Verizon bill is paid, and after trucking around the entire city of Lansing (west to north to east to south to west), I have procured this:

And one of these:

I’m now holed up in Theio’s, where I plan on doing some work for Smart Networks and reading Wired while basking in the wonderful air conditioning.