Big Suprise

This has happened to me twice this year. I go outside to wait for my van pool at around 4:00 pm, and I watch smiling people going by in their cars on their way home. Then "BOOM!" I hear an explosion. It startles me enough that I contemplate throwing myself down on the ground in the duck and cover position. Then I think, "Oh wait I'm on an Air Force Base, could it be a sonic boom?" Nope, it is too loud for that unless a plane is flying supersonic at a dangerously low altitude. So I have a look around and notice a plume of smoke and dust about a half mile north from me, across the street from the Explosive Ordinace Disposal Unit. Yeah, they're setting off bombs.

Here is another dumb story. A rabbit attacked me, Monty Python style. I was riding my bike to work this morning, and I saw a rabbit in my head light. I thought I would head straight for him, and expected to scare him off into the bushes on the side of the road. I don't think he noticed me because right before I was about to hit him he jumped four feet straight into the air then took off into the bushes. I still have thoughts of Monty Python running through my head.