Are you reading this right now, at 9pm on Saturday night, in Washington DC? If so, you better be using a battery-powered laptop because that lightening you hear? Yeah, that. It will fry your electronics in a heartbeat if it hits the transformer near your house. One just blew across the street and I can hear the folks cussing already.

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”