Walking Amongst Dark Shadows

<–Cloverfield Monster!? YA RLY

I’ve gone and done it again. The moment something bloody exciting happens, yours truly sleeps right through it without a wink. Last time it was Buncefield, and now an Earthquake that measured a colossal 5.2 on the Richter scale last night at around 01:00 GMT. I crashed out on my bed at around 22:30 because I was so tired, and then woke up at 05:00 only to see the BBC News readers on TV going crazy about something that had happened in Lincolnshire, North East England. Then up popped a map with a bullseye on the ‘danger’ zone and immediately my thoughts were "Oh noes! Bomb!". Bomb indeed…

So I resumed my early morning duties of checking a few forums, as well as blogs. One of these forums was Overclockers UK, where I’ve hung around for a fair number of years now. Sure enough there was a bigarse thread there about the quake. Even funnier was the picture just below of many users all rushing to the forum to find out what had happened.

Its hilarious when you think about it - if a bomb or major accident etc happens the first thing half of us do is rush off to the interwebs! Balls to contacting loved ones to see if they’re OK, just post on forums instead! It’s amazing how reliant we are of the Internet now. At this point I thought I’d phone my lovely girlfriend who will have definitely been awoken by this event. Instead I got an earful of abuse for waking her up! Charming!

An hour later I’m at the bus stop. Thirty minutes later I’m still there….turned out the buses weren’t running! Talk about daft - Cracks on the road? Who knows. Eventually the bus arrived, completely rammed with people. It was a small single decker one and it was one hell of a tight squeeze. So tight that I was facing this blonde female with the largest set of melons I had ever seen. Even worse was the problem that I was facing her and couldn’t turn around, or move so it was hard to avoid the er melons… I ended up staring at the ceiling pretending to read the pointless banners that only drunk people read. It was just so hard to not notice them ya know?

I reached work an hour later (with a big grin mind you) only to hear a colleague going on about his neighbours 4 foot crack, to which I got the wrong idea until she stated that there was a 4 foot crack in her neighbours garden. Now we’ll all be forced to hear about this huge disaster for a week and about efforts to stop structural damage from being inflicted to buildings. Happy days!