The Dull Gleam Monety, 29th Day of Spring, 525 M.E. (Helios): There are many reasons my blood pressure has been elevated. Setting aside politics and the economy, while my car was in the shop for two weeks and I managed to crack the windshield of the loaner car I was driving, and while I was simultaneously dealing with credit-card fraud, there were no less than three tornado watches here in Atlanta, one of which became a tornado warning. The twister touched down south of here and spared the city and my home, but it was a tense and stressful day. On top of everything else.

There was a severe thunderstorm warning last night, but at this point I just sort of laughed it off. Right now, I'm fully expecting the Yellowstone supervolcano to erupt any day, the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake to occur, or that meteor they say will miss the Earth but definitely won't to strike.

Good times. Who needs low blood pressure?