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D.

Twitter favourite

"I have decided to become a tiny woman from the Philippines."

- munki (Sarah Wedde), Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Stopped for the night on a gravel road surrounded by spinnifex, cooked tea on a fire and used my shower bag for the 1st time."

- twocrowsdown, Twitter

Twitter favourite

"Rode my bike on a 25 mile loop over lunch. Bicycle broke down at mile 12.555555555555555. Yep."

- matthewbaldwin (Matthew Baldwin), Twitter

Cold dark winter morning

I'm sitting here at the computer, 05:06 am in a cold dark winter morning, and apparently I'm awake.

My phone got a message from Twitter/EQTW at 04:23 am and it said this:

EQTW: {EQ&TW} Loc
al Tsunami Informatio
n:
TSUNAMI INFORMA
TION STATEMENT N
UMBER 1
NWS PACIFIC TSUN
AMI WARNIN..
http://tinyurl.com/5nx7
3x

I don't know how to make the phone stop doing the line breaks like that.

I only noticed this tweet because I was already awake and hadn't gone back to sleep. My phone rings on silent/vibrate because all the available ringtones are so hideous, and the sound of the vibration is so loud I can hear any call from hundreds of kilometres away anyway, though usually that's not enough to wake me from sleep.

Anyway. Tsunami Information Statement. I didn't want to get out of bed to check the information online because:
(a) it's cold;
(b) last time I got out of bed to check a tsunami information tweet online it was about nothing and said no action was required;
(c) there had been no earlier tweets about earthquakes (except this objection was easy to overrule - Twitter is so unreliable there could have been 50 earthquakes and it might not have told anybody);
(d) it was only 04:23 am and it's a cold dark winter morning.

Finally I did get out of bed because:
(a) maybe there was a real tsunami;
(b) if there was a real tsunami and everybody on low-lying areas (e.g. my sister and her family, or my parents) were killed, that'd make for a pretty bad day later on;
(c) maybe there was a real tsunami.

But there wasn't a real tsunami. The relevant earthquake was only a magnitude of 3.0 (3.0?!) off the coast of Hawaii, and presumably tsunami notification peoples there were being hyper-vigilant about letting folks know there's NO ACTION REQUIRED.

That's good. Of course.

And now it's 05:23 am and outside it's dark dark dark and inside it's cold cold cold. And I will now have another cup of tea.

This has been my morning. Welcome to it.

(Brought to you by 22 minutes of rewriting and editing. Should it have taken that long? Why, no! Now where's that cup of tea, then?)