Weather, or not

It is one thing to get used to 70s in January, it is another thing to have it go from 70 to 40 and back up over three days. Today we had the tornado panic as a wave of weather swept through. Emails from the principal to make sure you are up on the disaster procedures, etc. And of course, nothing but some thunderstorms (and a great teach-able moment about the ratio of seconds between the flash and the boom and the distance, since we are studying ratios).

I despair that this blog is going to become nothing more than mundane crap about my days, which are going to be depressingly similar. School, exercise, diet. Not that I do much. I have a little 5-year diary from my middle teens, not enough space on a given day to write much of anything. There is the temperature and what I did. Sometimes movies, sometimes cryptic messages that I can't recall or decipher at all. Pretty boring, although there are some gems in there, like going to see Star Wars, things like that.

One exciting note, on a food angle. At our nearby grocery shopping center/strip mall there had been an empty bay on the corner for a long time. Then the floor was dug up, and suddenly it was announced a Pei Wei was going in. Google it, but it is a sort of upscale takeout or sit in. You order at the register, get a number token, sit down, get your own drinks and food is brought to you fast and hot. There are a number of stools at the 'bar' overlooking the food prep area, which is nice. Asian, not limited to Chinese (which so much of Memphis is, and it is horribly Americanized, too. Then again, the Dragon Seed and its Scorpion Bowls were not authentic either), so you can get Japanese noodles, Thai, Vietnamese. Well, we have been waiting and watching, since they originally said opening January of 08. Now the little sign says "Training Staff (opening Monday)." Hooray! We know where we will be for dinner.