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Not quite a mistake, but definitely an itchy trigger-finger there. Someone's on watch who was here in 1966, heh.

All the good stuff is to the south of us, but there is a bunch to the north too. And here we are in the middle with nothing.

Softball-sized hail. A softball, folks, is big, 'bout the diameter of a roll of toilet paper. If it were solid ice, a softball would weigh about four pounds. Of course, hailstones that size are not solid ice, more like snowballs, but they do have a large component of ice. Heh, I'm sounding like I've seen hail that size, but I haven't. I've seen hail as large as quarters and that's about it.

Didn't get enough sleep last night yet again, it was after midnight, way after, before I got to sleep, and then I was up at 06:45 or so. Been yawning all day.

And it wasn't too busy either, for a Monday. And I got to go see a presentation on hyperbaric patients, who we are doing a lot more of recently, and they will continue to make up a larger portion of the patient population.

Hyperbaric patients are those who are obese... and it's a disease.

Very interesting talk, one hour by a surgeon and another hour by a nurse-practioner who has something to do with a suture company, I think that he trains doc on post-surgical care or something like that.

Anyways, back to the storms... while we were watching Karen's favorite politician, the sirens went off. Had to switch to another station to get any info, of course, WIBW wasn't gonna let a little thing like a tornado interrupt the prez, no sir!

The first one spotted was about 20 miles south, headed right for us. And then about 10 miles out, the whole storm took a right turn towards Lawrence, and they got pounded, of course, No tornados, though, just lotsa wind and rain.

And right now we're getting swept with the tail-end of a storm, just a little rain, no wind to speak of. And it's past my bedtime, I'm still yawning my head off here.

I'm pretty sure that the sirens will waken me if they go off again.