Two things that happened to me in high school in Anchorage that stand out in relation to everything else are the Good Friday earthquake, and a total eclipse of the sun. Both were unforgettable experiences, although I would prefer the latter to the former.

Before I get into the eclipse, let me remind you that the good Friday earthquake was a 9.2 on the Richter scale and the Richter scale is a log scale. Meaning that a two is 10 times as powerful as a one and three is 100 times as powerful as one and so on . That means that the New Jersey quake at 4.8 was 1400 times less severe than the one I was in and on top of that it lasted less than a minute and my quake lasted for 5 1/2 minutes. The 7.4 that hit Taiwan was a serious quake.

But that was not the point of this rant. The eclipse was awesome and unforgettable, but was a very short live thing. Unlike kudos to Bonnie Tyler a Total Eclipse of the Heart, which is much darker and long lasting and unlike most of you, I have experienced both. And definitely prefer a Total Eclipse of the sun.

I am working on a much longer rant, which I will hopefully put up tomorrow which deals with more politically relevant topics than this.