Susan’s in Hawaii this week for work. Hawaii is five time zones behind Central, a fact I didn’t know (or at least had never personally affected me) until this week. So far we’ve been talking a couple of times a day; she has breakfast right around the time I get back from lunch, and she gets out of her meetings right around the kids’ bedtimes, so it’s been working out. This is definitely the most number of time zones we’ve been apart since we’ve been married. Typically, one of us heads to one coast or the other and the other stays in central. Actually, I think this may be the furthest physically we’ve been apart since we got married. From what I can tell, it’s about 3,700 miles from Oklahoma City to Hawaii. A close second would be the week I went to Chicago while Susan went to Jamaica. (Oddly enough, during that trip we were both still in the same time zone!)
The kids are doing okay this week, although I can tell they’re missing Mommy and her way of doing things. Mason had a meltdown today at the park/playground which is outside his character. I got a note from Morgan’s teacher informing me that she led a revolt today in the girl’s restroom, and that “the other kids listen to Morgan instead of listening to her.” That’s my girl!
Believe it or not I’ve never seen the movie Twister before, so I put that on after the kids went to bed tonight. The Discover Channel Storm Chasers should have hung around the the guys in this movie. I don’t think they’ve successfully got in the path of a single tornado yet on Storm Chasers; they’ve done it half a dozen times in this movie so far. My favorite special effect (other than the flying cows) is how the tornado “growls” when on screen. I’ll have to wait until the end credits to see if it gets its own billing.
Starring Fido as twister #3!
I could waste twice the length of the movie itself talking about the wild meteorological inaccuracies in the movie, but that’s just because I’ve spent too many years hanging around weathermen. But yeah…the NON-realism of that movie is legend.
I caught a brief “making of” segment on TV once about Twister… they were showing the sound guy mixing noises together for a tornado on screen. He actually did use a number of animal noises for the tornado – during the clip, he declared it needed more “pig squeal” and then turned a knob that did, in fact, add more pig squealing to the mix.
Tornadoes sound a lot more like trains than they do pigs and camels. Wait, why am I explaining that to two guys from Arkansas?