science, movement, and thunder

[iridium]

more science today, testing out my experimental setup. a good solid day's worth of work, even with getting in late and taking a bit of time to have coffee with asarwate. and on sunday or monday i'll have data to play with and look at and pull numbers out of, which is fun.

i walked the ~3 miles home both yesterday and today. not strictly the best idea today, as i hadn't had much for lunch or anything for dinner, but it felt good to stretch and work the muscles some. stopped at Pendragon on the way home to pick up more books and found three: a beautifully-bound edition of Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler, Cometbus' Mixed Reviews, and Reading Lolita in Tehran, which i've been meaning to read for awhile.

and, lastly: for the last little while, as on many evenings just after sunset, i've been hearing heavy low rumbling that sounds very much like distant, steady thunder. i'm in Oakland, where it's most definitely the dry season. anybody know what that rumbling is? i like to think that it's thunder, because i miss the storms and the lightning, but that doesn't seem likely.

Comments

[cuthalion.livejournal.com]

We had some fireworks here after the ballgame but that seems a bit far away for you to hear it.

[fyfer.livejournal.com]

Tonight, the rumbling was a huge fireworks display at the Giants game. It sounded like bombing, from this close.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

it might well have been the fireworks. do y'all have loud fireworks often?

[iridium.livejournal.com]

that's the best reasonable explanation i've come up with, too, though i've never been able to *see* the fireworks while the rumbling is happening.

i think i'll still pretend like it's thunder, at least sometimes. *smile*

[tyratae.livejournal.com]

i can't think of a single reason ever not to pretend it's thunder. if you can convince yourself, even for a few seconds, then you get those little thunder-vibes, & you need those.

really, i don't know how you left-coast denizens survive.

[ratontheroad.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're feeling better.

I don't know what it is, but there's no t-storms anywhere near Travis, to my knowledge, so I'm guessing fireworks.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

kinda better. i still seem to need to be sleeping 10+ hours (or else, says my body) and didn't get nearly half of that last night. blargh.

but, yeah, i think it was likely fireworks. i could do with a good thunderstorm any day now, though.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

agreed.

really, i don't know how you left-coast denizens survive.

it's a tough life, really, but i tell myself that the fresh strawberries and fruit trees make up for it. ;)

[tamnonlinear.livejournal.com]

Out of nowhere and totally randomly, I read your thoughts on thunder and thought about Joseph Campbell's comment, heard somewhere long ago and context mostly forgotten, that the first thought of god in nature was the lion roaring back at the thunder in the night.

Random, but I thought I'd share it.

[iridium.livejournal.com]

*smile* i think i've heard that somewhere before, too.
thanks for the reminder.