the lagniappe

Hello friends, well, the creative clouds have parted.  I'm fairly certain it has something to do with the leap year, the tides, and the wintry mix that set to hit NYC tomorrow.  In short-but-sweet fashion, the best thing I've read in the news today regarding that 6.0 quake that rocked Nevada this morning:

Randy Bowers said he was working the overnight shift bartending at the town's 140-year-old brothel, Donna's Ranch, when he felt two powerful jolts and a third lighter one.

"The building is here, but everything else is demolished, everything inside is trashed," Bowers told Reuters by telephone.

"Stuff didn't fall off, it flew off," he added, noting that there were no customers in the brothel at the time and the "working girls were in their rooms."

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Thanks Randy Bowers, thanks for your input.  Not to make light of this act of God that befell Wells, NV, town of 1,300, but that was the first reaction?  Get down to the 140-year-old brothel, make sure it's ok, get some statements for the article while you're at it.  The article did not mention when the girls would be back in business, time can only tell, as everything inside was trashed.  Everyone?  No, everything.  Ok.