But the past two or three have been similar experiences.

Last night was a case in point (well, this morning if you wanna be specific about it, sheesh.)

DaSauceGuy is sleeping merrily along with his soft and supple bedmate (DaPriaPillow) clutched to his chest when things go bump in the night.

DaCalKingBed where he rests his haid just kinda leapt a bit. Thud. The window blinds are clattering. Yer diarist doesn�t hear DaKiddo yelling�good. Thinks about the bounce and makes a bet with self that it registered about 4.7 locally and rolls over�snoozing along� and barely felt and noted the smaller aftershock about two minutes later.

This one was a bump-n-thrust kinda quake. Your diarist really prefers the rolling feel ones. [Getting one's bump and thrust on is less fun with a large crust than a dame. Trust me.]

The last one of those was a bit stronger, so he got up, looked around to make sure nothing major had fallen, looked out the window for gas fires, and climbed back in while it lulled him back to sleep with a bit of that bed-rolling-action�not unlike those put your change in the bed machines and let it boogie.

The earlier quakes in DaExperience DaSauce when he became a Cal-I-For-Nee-I-Yay living dumb ass were a bit more whelming.

The first biggie was in a taller building and your not-so-smart pixel slinger decided he was DEFINITELY feeling dizzy. But, then he realized that the door to his office was swinging, and his chair was moving back and forth around the room on wheels. Thus it was the building that was dizzy and not him. Looking out a window, you could see the sunlight glinting off the building next door in cool little ripples as you watched the glass bulge and wave at you. It�s a mental picture that one can keep for a lifetime.

But last night?

Not so much, other than being able to confirm that DaSauceOfMagnitude was close to right on with the epicenter at Big Bear at about 5.4 and the local bounce at 4.6.

Yawn. [And please note that the word yawn here is a good word. The moment excitement ensues might be a bit irksome�as YerDiarist has never really wanted to surf to Denver with a state under him.]

--DatBedBouncingBoy

PS. What�s cool though? Is that normally the distance from somewhere like Big Bear would make the quake about 30 seconds from the USGS reported strike time. This one was a minute and a half.