Ostara!

... and so the spring equinox has come and gone this year (aka, Spring Has Sprung). It snuck up on me this year, somehow.

You can have my burrito when you pry it from my cold ... wait, what?

San Antonio, TX, 20 March 2011. A local Taco Bell had raised its price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito from 99 cents to a buck-forty-nine, the promotion for said burritos having expired. A customer in the drive-through took exception to the change in price ...

... he shot an air gun at the manager, displayed a semiautomatic assault rifle and pistol while in the restaurant's parking lot, fled as police were called, exchanged shots with three officers who pulled him over, then barricaded himself in his hotel room ...

Via the San-Antonio Express-News.

We're actually having weather in central California ...

Tornado on the ground yesterday, funnel cloud (no touchdown) today, both well north of us. Thunderstorms here earlier today and yesterday.

I like being out where you can actually see storms boiling up -- reminds me of Texas :)

EDIT: and in typical Californian fashion, the local news is going ga-ga, giving us live footage of the news anchors surfing around in Google Earth trying to find buildings that might have been in the path of the funnel today (if it had touched down). Slim pickings, since it's out over farmland.

EDIT THE SECOND: Storms still must be unusual around here -- the radar the local station is using is pretty primitive compared to what I was used to seeing in Texas a decade ago. Guess they don't have the need to spend the bucks for advanced radar out here :)

We're actually having weather in central California ...

Tornado on the ground yesterday, funnel cloud (no touchdown) today, both well north of us. Thunderstorms here earlier today and yesterday.

I like being out where you can actually see storms boiling up -- reminds me of Texas :)