"is the mountain okay?" he asked, and my mind went as blank as it's ever been. standing there in front of the shrink-wrap machine, i might as well have been in a coma.
after a moment, i recovered sufficiently to think, is the mountain okay? what in the blue blazes are you talking about? what mountain? mount rainier? i mean, that's the only mountain around here i know, and it looked okay this morning. did they just announce on the news that terrorists bombed it? if so, why, to what end? no one outside the pacific northwest would care anyway, even if they managed to destroy it utterly, to reduce it to rubble. my mind was aswirl.
is the mountain okay? if the mountain isn't okay, what hope do the rest of us have?
"104? the radio station?"
"oh, uh, yeah, whatever."
breathing slows. heart rate lowers. sanity is restored. my place in the universe returns to normal.
after a moment, i recovered sufficiently to think, is the mountain okay? what in the blue blazes are you talking about? what mountain? mount rainier? i mean, that's the only mountain around here i know, and it looked okay this morning. did they just announce on the news that terrorists bombed it? if so, why, to what end? no one outside the pacific northwest would care anyway, even if they managed to destroy it utterly, to reduce it to rubble. my mind was aswirl.
is the mountain okay? if the mountain isn't okay, what hope do the rest of us have?
"104? the radio station?"
"oh, uh, yeah, whatever."
breathing slows. heart rate lowers. sanity is restored. my place in the universe returns to normal.
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I like it when strange stuff like that happens. Funny thing is, is that Mt Ranier's snow level has dropped a lot, due to the unusual weather we've been having.
jesse