Natural disaster

Just like most people this morning, I woke up, checked a few headlines and continued with my morning routine.  Of course there was an earthquake near Japan and a tsunami warning for the entire US West coast, including California.

If you know me, you know that I'm not into drama, but the media always is.  I find it funny and sad that every time there is a hurricane in Houston, the local news media acts like they've never seen water before.  A few months ago Prince William announced his engagement and CNN International had 24 hour coverage.  Do we really need 24 hour news coverage of this engagement announcement?

Every morning I warm up in the gym and sometimes I turn on the television.  Today was one of those days and you can imagine my reaction to the local news media's reaction to the events.  By the way, the stories were completely different between the internet media and the local news.  The internet news said that the impact will be felt in Northern California and Oregon.  The local news was having a cow over how LA will be hit hard.

No matter what happens, we're up in the mountains and will be safe.  My van was assigned to Castro's Crest where the top has a view of the ocean.  I can report first hand that the water was calm.  There was no sign of a tsunami.

After lunch I went to Enterprise to rent a car for the weekend and on my way back I noticed a car with a license plat that said ECONAUT, as in a play on words of astronaut.  I didn't have time to get my iPhone out and take a picture.  It almost made me want to throw up.  Does anyone know if this word has made it's way into pop culture yet?  I think they should take the "A" out of it and call it ECONUT.

The highlight of my day was at circuit training in the afternoon.  I have never stayed on the Jacobs Ladder for more than one minute, and I wanted to see if I could go longer.  The intervals for circuit training are 2 minutes long and I can gladly report that I stayed on for the entire 2 minutes!!

So, at the end of the day I would have liked to write about outrageous adventures with the tsunami, but it wasn't that way.  At least my threshold on the Jacobs Ladder is 2 minutes.

Closing thought for the day:  I can't believe that week 7 is over.  It started with treadmill sprints at 9.0mph, continued with revenge on Newton Canyon, and ended with 2 minutes straight on the Jacobs Ladder.  Wow, what an awesome week!!