A few days after my last post, Fidel ceded power to his brother and Little Havana went crazy. I was seriously disturbed by people celebrating in the streets over news of his surgery. Today I read where Bush actually helped rally the exiles with talk of bringing "democracy" to the island. I imagine we'll just go ahead and drop a cluster bomb (if we haven't sent them all to Israel) on the island and be done with it.
And, now, back to the weather. We live in the middle of a rather long street. One evening, after excruciating humidity levels, a storm broke out while J and I were enjoying a late afternoon reading session in the living room. Although the dog was acting squirrely, we thought nothing of the thunder claps and brief flashes of lightning. 
As these pics reveal, however, a fairly benign storm turned into a powerful wind machine that took down some very, very, big trees in certain parts of our street and surrounding neighborhood. Of course, we have this huge, leaning, decrepit old pine tree over our kitchen that poses a constant threat to our overall well-being. So far, so good. Keep fingers crossed until we get a tree removal service on the job. In other news, J's birthday came and went. As part of her festivities, I bought her a digital camera since our old one went bust after one year's use. Hopefully our new digital technology will enhance the "look" of our oh-so-popular blogs. Haha. I make myself chuckle. To celebrate, we kept the festivities simple and local: in other words, we drank the night away at one of the 2 dive bars in town. Not THE dive bar we typically like to frequent, but a dive bar nonetheless. I'm trying to upload a mini video we took after our night of consuming massive quantities of Dewars and soda. Unfortunately, blogspot keeps giving me an "error" messsage, reassuring me, however, that the "engineers" are aware of the problem. When the engineers let me know what the hell is up, I'll upload and let you see some of our ramblings.
Later.
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