With Hurricane Ike (watch out Tina) bearing down on Texas, the National Weather Service released the following warning, “Persons not heeding evacuation orders in single-family one- or two-story homes may face certain death”.

A bit ambigous don’t you think?

In fact, I think that warning can be self-applied to almost any situation

Readers of my blog may face certain death.  That statement, while not likely to go far in increasing readership, is not necessarily untrue.  I am sure there is a term for that literary scare tactic.

We can question the usage but it does sound pretty good if you are trying to evacuate an unheeding public from grave personal danger.  An act that, if not for the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, I would be advising against.  I heard one person say, in preparation for the “certain death”, he filled up the bathtub with water, made sure the generator is working, and stocked up on lots of beer.

Sounds better than certain death, doesn’t it?

I can’t decide if the guilt from dropping Cameron off at the daycare is worth the joy of picking him up.  Today he was out in the hall and saw me from a long way away and got up and ran all the way down the hall with his arms out saying, Daddy! Daddy!  If that doesn’t put a smile on your face, then nothing will.  Just what you need after a long day at work.

So, I decided to take him to the park afterwards.  He is a brave little booger, and goes up and down every slide and apparatus on this park.  It’s a little scary for us.  At two he is easily navigating all the playground equipment (except the monkey bars), he can even swing on the swing by himself!