While dinner cooks I’ll pass along two cool sites I came across in my work-related travels today:

What Are You Craving?
In the mood for something with chicken, mushrooms and cheese, but don’t know what to make? Plug your cravings into CookThink.com and get showered with a bunch of yummy ideas.

Are You Okay With That?
Play a game with a few ashtrays before you decide to light up in public again. Non-smokers, it’s worth a few minutes for you to play, too, to be aware of what you’re getting into when you sit down at one of the few bars and restaurants that haven’t yet banned smoking.

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It’s been raining steadily since we woke this morning and I, used to the powerful but brief rains in the desert, keep expecting it to pass any time now but it doesn’t. But despite that and being a sunworshipper, it’s been kind of nice to just sit and be rained on all day.

If it doesn’t let up by tomorrow, though, the creek out back is in danger of flooding and we’re just a few feet away. Parts of northern Aroostook County have already had their own share of trouble today.

Down here we’ve got the wood stove on, but the windows cracked, and while Ryan for whatever reason Ryan does these things is studying his seven chakras and Sarah and is browsing YouTube for High School Musical outtakes, Shane and I are wandering the house trying to decide what stays out and what gets boxed and taped and put out in the box room, formerly the cat room, for later when we leave - a date that’s still being hopelessly shuffled around in the soggy air.

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A 4.7 quake hit the Reno area last night just before midnight local time, knocking stuff off shelves in stores, cracking archways and busting a flume northwest of the city. Aside from the shock of the initial thrust (that lasted a full 10 seconds), interestingly, residents were most unnerved by a sensation many people described as a constant “rumbling” underfoot for hours before and after the quake. The quake comes after more than 100 smaller quakes, most less than 3.0, were recorded in the area on Friday alone.

Plenty of news stories to choose from over at RGJ.com.

A couple of weeks ago they had a record-breaking windstorm. Now an earthquake cluster? Why does this stuff always happen when I’m gone?

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