go ahead lightning, strike me, i dare you!

Thursday, Jul. 12, 2007 | 10:52 PM

there was a thunderstorm tonight. we don't get them here very often, so i think it's kinda cool when we do. sometimes it can be a little scary when the thunder is really loud, but i'm more in awe than anything. it's so amazing and humbling.

i attempted to take a video, but it's more a video of my parents bothering me than a video of a thunderstorm. maybe it was kinda mean of me to say, "why don't you just go away," but, well... i wanted him to go away.

it's so dark and stuff, that i know that the quality will be just terrible if i convert it. so it's a mov file, and the file is kinda large.

i sat outside for a while trying to take pictures. i just snapped, snapped, snapped away... trying to get it at the right moment. i didn't really succeed. not in the way i was hoping anyway.

i got this, you can see one little lightning strike in there.

a really big bright one created this. that's when i realized that my aperture was open too much.

there's another little strike.

i could hear all my neighbors outside, saying "ooh" and "wow" everytime the lightning struck. we're so lame here in portland. oohing at little bits of lightning, and freaking out at an inch of snow.

it probably wasn't the safest thing, standing outside aiming a chunk of metal at the sky during a thunderstorm. actually i think it's mostly plastic. there's gotta be some metal though.

i stayed outside until it started raining. then i went and took a shower. that's probably also not the safest thunderstorm activity. i didn't wanna wait, and i thought it had pretty much passed anyway. but about two minutes after i got in... BOOM!

that was exciting.

i was a little nervous, i admit, but i continued on with the shower. i don't really think that God is planning on striking me dead with lightning. i kinda have the feeling that he wants me around longer. but hey, if he wants me, he can take me. there's not a whole lot for me here.

but lucky for you folks, i'm still here, so you can continue to read my pointless little blog thing.

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