Katrina And The Waves

Well, it look like the surfing is going to be choice in West Palm and Fort Lauderdale this weekend. Nice. I was beginning to wonder if we were going to be visited by another Tropical Cyclone this year. Sometime today I expect the venerable NHC will christen Tropical Depression #12 Katrina.
Hmm, Tropical Depression Number 12, sounds like a really cheesy perfume doesn't it? Anyway this wil make like named storm number eleven I think. Which puts the NOAA boys back on pace to meet their quota.
Good thing too.
I'd hate for all those fire and brimstone weather forcasters to end up with egg on their faces. They seemed so eager to proclaim this season the MOTHER OF ALL HURRICANE SEASONS!!!
After a few dust storms from the Sahara, it seemed like this year was going to dud out.
But fear not faithful weatherphiles!
The tropical cyclone peak season is in full swing and apparently running on all cylinders. Which brings me to my point. Since Katrina is shaping up to be nothing more than a minor inconvenience (at least for those of us in Central Florida) I can look forward to a nice cool breezy Saturday. Hopefully I will be able to get my poor car engine reassembled. The garage tends to get really hot in the summer and the breeze will really come in handy.
It's harder than they made it look on American Hot Rod.
They rebuild some junk yard reject into the sexiest hotrod ever, all the while voilating OSHA guidelines, workplace harrasment policies, ethical standards and just plain old common courtesy in a single hour's worth of video. It's not that they suck. They are great at what they do but I think that they (the short bald dude with the Napoleon Complex or small johnson syndrome and the Boyd Coddington, the clueless proprietor) are just plain mean bastards. At least with the Tuetel family, American Chopper, you get that whole love hate thing. Yeah Pauly Sr is bombastic and aggressive but you know that beneath all the bluster he loves his sons to death and is really proud of them. I don't really get that from the Coddington Crew. And Blue Bear! Don't get me started on that P.O.S.
Who is he sleeping with to keep his job?
He constantly screws up, harrases other employees to the point that he is opening up the business to lawsuits and has yet to prove he's worth the grease smears on his fat little face.
He's got to be related to someone or he caught the shop boss and Coddington breaking the law or having an affair or something.
I can't figure it out.
And yet, I watch.
So that makes me just as sad.
I need to change the channel.
And order my Katrina and The Waves tee shirt...
Get 'em while they're hot people!