'Ware all who enter the treacherous land of Alaska! Last frontier? Sure. I'll buy that. Land of peace where nothing ever happens? MY ASS!

So not only did we have this freaky earthquake on Saturday... which was actually kind cool... You know you wake up, you're not sure why, but you're totally ALERT. Seriously, you are ready to FLEE, and you have no idea why. So yeah, I'm lying there, completely ready to bolt, and just as I decide that I'm a freak-of-nature, the house starts shakin' and bakin'. And it goes on and on, and then it stops. (Yeah, anti-climatic. Hmmmm... climatic... HAHA! Ok. I'm done.) So I go back to sleep, forget about it.

Couple days later, I look at the newspaper and see, oh look, there's a picture of a mountain on the front page of the paper. I look at it and I think, 'Oh look, a mountain. Cool. Hmmm. Which Mountian? Oh. Redoubt. Coolio. Hmmmm.... let's see... Redoubt Volcano Watch has been raised to Orange warning... OHMYCHEESE, VOLCANO ERUPTION!"

You may have noticed that my thought process is just a little... off.

So yeah. That's the news in this great life in Alaska. Figures. Snow day? HELL NO. Not in a million lifetimes. Chances that school will be canceled because of the volcano? Pretty damn good. I see it now, this is me in California:

"Wow, you're from Alaska? I bet you got tons of snow days."

"No, we're too cool for those. We have Volcano Days instead."

Me worried? Not at all. Me worried for my poor truck that may very likely be bombarded by little flaming balls of debris and scraped by sandpapery ash? Uh... YEAH. Poor Lyle.

On the other hand... less than two weeks till my birthday and me and mom have decided more or less on our tattoos.

Digg it.