Thank heaven my week off is over. I’m exhausted. I need to get back to work and get some rest.
I’ve been doing yard work. I’ve been digging. I’ve been pruning. I’ve been potting. I’ve been moving rocks, rocks by the ton, I swear. I’ve been poisoning weeds like a Borgia getting rid of inconvenient relatives. Do not write or call to chastise me for using herbicides. The weeds were in the way of my plans for backyard domination. They had to die.
I’ve been to two baseball games, three, if you count Little League. I’ve been to two parties. I’ve cured the dog’s limp, although I’m pretty sure it was psychosomatic.
I even washed windows, for crying out loud. And I’ve had to wear real pants and real shoes every single day of the past week. Now I ask you, what kind of vacation is that?
In any event, it’s good to be back in the old bathrobe and at the keyboard again and back on a regular schedule of naps.
So let’s get down to what might be laughably described as work.
Can lightning travel sideways? My daughter-in-law insists that it can and does. By the way, I prefer to go bra-less and shoeless.
TMI. Too Much Information.
Madam, this may come as a surprise to you, but your undergarments and footwear, or lack thereof, hold little interest for me, at least in the present situation. Perhaps in other circumstances such details might be intriguing, but for now we shall confine ourselves to this business of your sideways-lightning question.
I’m not quite sure what you mean by lightning striking sideways.
Lightning does strike from cloud-to-cloud, depending on what kind of electrical charges those clouds have built up. That’s a kind of sheet lightning. I guess that would be sideways lightning.
Or do you mean that lightning might not always strike from straight-up, right-on-top-of-you? Like at a 90-degree angle to the earth?
Sure, why not? Lightning can hit you out of a clear blue sky from up to 10 miles away. I guess that would count as sideways, if that’s what you mean.
Now go put your shoes on.
Reach Thompson at clay.thompson@arizonarepublic.com or (602) 444-8612.
*Clay Thompson writes for The Arizona Republic. You can read his column by going to www.azcentral.com.
Ive noticed on many days that the city of glendale is the hot temperture spot for AZ and some times in the country. What makes glendale so spiecial? This my first time asking you a question so if im in the wrong area, please dont call me a dummy in your colume,thanks in advance.