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Yes, I live a few hundred yards away from the Plane Crash in Leominster

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If you’ve been following the news and saw that there was a plane crash in Leominster I just wanted to tell you that we’re okay, and that it crashed behind my neighborhood. As in we walked to the far end of my neighbor Amanda’s yard, and you could see the flames on the other side of the commuter rail tracks. I couldn’t see the plane, but could see the police line tape and the water coming out of the hoses. THAT is how close this was to my house.

Just got in from talking to the neighbors who live closest to the site and they all heard it (we were coming home from swim lessons and as we approached our neighborhood all I could see was billowing smoke. VERY disconcerting. )

If it was the plane I think it was, we hear it all the time, it’s a little commuter Jet (I’m not sure that was the plane, but they did say it was 6-passenger.) I tried to take pictures but I don’t think any came out. It’s drizzling freezing rain (the reason for the crash, I believe) and everything was on the far side of a little rise. If a photo came out, I’ll post it.

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Random Thoughts

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  • When you call in for a refill of a prescription, make a note of the location of the pharmacy before you head out to pick it up. D’oh! At least the pharmacist at the first place I visited thought it was amusing.
  • Junior has been watching TV shows from my childhood. This is good and bad. He has my DNA already, do I really want to expose him to the same things that made me the person I am today? He spent two hours running around here tonight without a shirt on, being “Uh Oh Chango” from Danger Island. Yes, I’ve been Tivo-ing the Banana Splits. Why do you ask?
  • AT&T Wireless customer service people totally rock. I talked to one last night and one this evening and both calls were fun. And the last time I changed my phone (a year or so ago) I had a fantastic person as well. There is no sarcasm at all in this comment. In fact, the woman I was talking to tonight and I came up with this REALLY funny promotional idea that I have submitted to the Daily Probe staff for fleshing out as a fake ad. THAT is how fun the call was.
  • The “My Scene” Barbie Dolls have two male dolls, and they are named “Hudson” and “Bryant.” No, really. I’m thinking they needed to give Barbie some gay friends with whom to go clubbing. That is the only reason I can come up with for the names Hudson and Bryant.
  • I’d better get some sleep tonight. I had a phone interview today and I should have told the person who called that I only got 30 minutes of sleep last night due to rodent pole-vaulting, but I didn’t get a chance. I think I would have scored pretty high if he knew that I was that fantastic AND beyond tired. See, my brain never sleeps!
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    Parsing error fixed

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    Okay, I don’t know why it was an error but it was and it’s fixed. I like the old “well, you don’t need this anyway so we’ll just delete it” solution to error-fixing. Dave from Davezilla can visit here safe in the knowledge that it is fixed. Taa-daa!

    Dang. Not yet.

    Okay, maybe now. Well, if not, I’ll have to look at it later.

    Oh man, I am running on 1 cylinder today. I don’t even know how to spell the word. In the Mousetrix Redux, something “mouse-like” ended up trapped in the wall between my bedroom and the bathroom. It sounded to be the size of a squirrel, but I’m sure that was just acoustics. The bugger spent the whole night, and I do mean the whole night, trying to escape. He would be flung back down against the wall or into the pipes, because you see, this is the wall were the sink and toilet pipes are. There was not a THING I could do to drown out all the thumping and banging sounds this damned creature made last night. It finally got quiet around 6:15 am, which is, of course, when it’s time to wake up. I was ready to rip the drywall down with my bare hands and squeeze the life out of the little beast, but I was too tired to make myself move.

    Actually, I think I can hear it banging around even now. So pleasant. The call is in to my mouse guy. I cannot do anything about a mouse trapped in a wall. And yes, I know if I don’t do anything, it will soon die and the problem will be solved, but I need to deal with the fact that he might not be the only one up there. Again.

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