Earlier This A.M.

We had a 3.3 earthquake this morning at 3:26 AM and it was centered less than two miles from where I reside. Apart from knocking over a few piles of books 'n' things, it did no visible damage here.

Lately, battling deadlines, I've usually been up at that hour but I went to bed around 2 and when the quake occurred, it woke me up — but I wasn't sure if I'd been awakened by an earthquake in my dream or in reality. Too sleepy to get up, I quickly reasoned that it hadn't set off my alarm system or any of the immediate neighbors', nor had my power gone out. So I wasn't going to worry about it…and back to sleep I went a few minutes later. I got up this morning to find that no, I did not dream it. And that's about all I have to say on that topic.