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Thunderstorms
May. 30th, 2003 11:36 pmI love 'em. I actually seem to know lots of people who love storms, although supposedly most people tend to fear them. Maybe the people I know are different. Wait, forget about the "maybe".
Anyway, after days of stifling heat today we had/ have a thunderstorm. It started with thunder when we couldn't see any lightning as yet, then eventually we saw the first lightning bolts, and then came the rain. There is no rain anymore - not here, anyway - but the thunder is still rumbling outside, and if I could look out of the window, I'd probably still see the lightning. Driving home through the rain was really strange with all the lightning ahead, in a grey-blue-purple sky, as though I were driving into the heart of the storm (which would be a rather stupid thing to do, wouldn't it). And indeed, the closer I came to home, the more frequent the lightning did get, and the thunder followed immidiately. It was beautiful. It reminded me of one time when we were swimming down in the lake (you know, the reservoir with the villages inside), and it started raining, and we didn't want to leave (it's a funny feeling to swim while it'S raining, like a cold whirlpool), and then there was a thunderstorm and we counted after every flash of the lightning, and when it came down to 4 seconds/1,... km, we decided maybe we should leave the water, and everything was pouring wet, our "dry" clothind and our towels too, of course...
The entrance to the Kendo dojo was flooded. When Kan and I went down the stairs, we came to a puddle of about 5x100x150 cm³. We had to wade through to get in. Splash, splash.
It's almost scary how much I love Kendo. It shouldn't scare me because I loved Judo and Karate just as much back when I started (though I do hope that neither Kendo nor Karate will ever turn into what Judo has become :P), but it does. I'm addicted. Gah. It's scary how much I love turning into some sort of shinai-batting, men-shouting machine moving in suri-ashi.
I'm also surprised I like Kyudo that much, considering how much I hate doing Kihon at Karate practice, or repeating the same thing again and again - and at Kyudo practice, we really do the same thing over and over again, but it's fun. The bow still scares me, though. And it just doesn't want to rest on my knee during Yugamae as it should. But I'm learning. Heh.
Tonight, radio WDR 2 seems to have had a clown for supper. First they made some rather hilarious jokes that probably don't translate because I suppose that the Kalif of Cologne just doesn't mean anything to anyone outside of Germany, with the possible exception of FBI, CIA and Al Qaida; now they have fallen into the Matrix, talking about how the solar eclipse tomorrow is just a glitch in the Matrix, and how the Matrix was messed up repeatedly in the past, like how difficult it was to program the European Community because it doesn't have long passport controls at the boarders anymore so they don't have enough time to upload the new country setting, and so on. Rather amusing.
I found our eclipse glasses (don't know whether there is any English term for them - these stupid sunglasses you are supposed to wear when watching a solar eclipse so your eyes don't get damaged)! Yay! So I SHOULD get up early. Besides, I want to.
Eru, what a load of nonsense I wrote.
Anyway, after days of stifling heat today we had/ have a thunderstorm. It started with thunder when we couldn't see any lightning as yet, then eventually we saw the first lightning bolts, and then came the rain. There is no rain anymore - not here, anyway - but the thunder is still rumbling outside, and if I could look out of the window, I'd probably still see the lightning. Driving home through the rain was really strange with all the lightning ahead, in a grey-blue-purple sky, as though I were driving into the heart of the storm (which would be a rather stupid thing to do, wouldn't it). And indeed, the closer I came to home, the more frequent the lightning did get, and the thunder followed immidiately. It was beautiful. It reminded me of one time when we were swimming down in the lake (you know, the reservoir with the villages inside), and it started raining, and we didn't want to leave (it's a funny feeling to swim while it'S raining, like a cold whirlpool), and then there was a thunderstorm and we counted after every flash of the lightning, and when it came down to 4 seconds/1,... km, we decided maybe we should leave the water, and everything was pouring wet, our "dry" clothind and our towels too, of course...
The entrance to the Kendo dojo was flooded. When Kan and I went down the stairs, we came to a puddle of about 5x100x150 cm³. We had to wade through to get in. Splash, splash.
It's almost scary how much I love Kendo. It shouldn't scare me because I loved Judo and Karate just as much back when I started (though I do hope that neither Kendo nor Karate will ever turn into what Judo has become :P), but it does. I'm addicted. Gah. It's scary how much I love turning into some sort of shinai-batting, men-shouting machine moving in suri-ashi.
I'm also surprised I like Kyudo that much, considering how much I hate doing Kihon at Karate practice, or repeating the same thing again and again - and at Kyudo practice, we really do the same thing over and over again, but it's fun. The bow still scares me, though. And it just doesn't want to rest on my knee during Yugamae as it should. But I'm learning. Heh.
Tonight, radio WDR 2 seems to have had a clown for supper. First they made some rather hilarious jokes that probably don't translate because I suppose that the Kalif of Cologne just doesn't mean anything to anyone outside of Germany, with the possible exception of FBI, CIA and Al Qaida; now they have fallen into the Matrix, talking about how the solar eclipse tomorrow is just a glitch in the Matrix, and how the Matrix was messed up repeatedly in the past, like how difficult it was to program the European Community because it doesn't have long passport controls at the boarders anymore so they don't have enough time to upload the new country setting, and so on. Rather amusing.
I found our eclipse glasses (don't know whether there is any English term for them - these stupid sunglasses you are supposed to wear when watching a solar eclipse so your eyes don't get damaged)! Yay! So I SHOULD get up early. Besides, I want to.
Eru, what a load of nonsense I wrote.
