Boom

[mmcirvin]

I stayed up way, way too late last night messing around on the Internet. Between two and three AM, before going to bed, I was taking an overdue dump and heard sort of a muffled boom, and the window rattled. I wondered for a few minutes what had happened--it was a little like a sudden gust of wind, but everything seemed calm afterward. I went to bed and didn't think any more of it.

This morning, everyone was talking about this. Note, I am within a few miles of the New Hampshire border.

The governor was speaking of a "Thanksgiving miracle". It was amazingly fortunate that nobody was killed or even seriously hurt, but I don't suppose that when your house gets caved in by an ink factory exploding down the street, you regard it as particularly miraculous.

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I was taking an overdue dump and heard sort of a muffled boom, and the window rattled.

I don't really have anything to add to the factory explosion, but I do like quoting the above out of context.

-Derrick

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Since my co-workers had had a similar reaction to the spoken-word version of this narrative, I decided to release this straight line to the world as a public good, because I love you all.

I was thinking about working the fact of an actual explosion in an ink factory into some sort of crack about NaNoWriMo, but my heart wasn't in it.