Tonight’s big thunderstorms slipped around Eden Prairie to the North and to the South, but I just sat outside for half an hour watching some great lightning. Most of it was over the horizon—just the tops and the clouds lighting up—but from time to time a great bolt rose from the Southeast, branching out and reaching forty-five degrees or more into the sky.
My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
One of the things my brother melted was a plastic fork. He carefully heated it only just enough that the tips of the tines curled neatly into little coils. We examined it and decided that surely it was no longer good for stabbing people...or food. Thus was born the original safety fork: harmless, but useless.
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September 20th, 2006 at 5:15 pm
I did the very same thing…although the tail end of the thunderstorm snagged the southern part of Mankato.
And that’s MY favorite place too! Heh heh….you definitely need to keep coming to the shows.