Dr. Red is in the Building

The twins continue to do just fine. Adam is preparing for his trip home on Wednesday, while Tessa has decided to hang out with the nurses for a while longer. Everyone is happy with the progress of both of them.

We did have a bit of a scare Saturday night. There was a pretty terrific thunderstorm that blew through Fairfax County. The Missus and I were eating dinner at a restaurant near the hospital. We'd visited the twins earlier, but had to leave during the nurses' shift change. The storm arrived just as we were leaving the restaurant. In fact, a nearby lightning strike blacked out the restaurant just as we were pulling away.

By the time we made it to the hospital, it was raining cats and dogs--and alligators, giraffes, elephants, rhinos--it was raining the whole darn zoo. I dropped the Missus off out front so she could feed Adam, and then sat in the car until the rain let up enough for me to dash into the hospital.

Inside, the fire alarms were going off and a voice over the loudspeakers kept saying "Dr. Red is in the building." It doesn't take an advanced degree to realize that means there is a fire somewhere. (When Dr. Brown is in the building, it means something less dangerous, but more odorous.)

I found an elevator that was still working and made my way up to my family. It struck me that having a family was one of the few things that could make a man run into a burning building. Luckily for us, the building wasn't burning, it was just, with that voice repeating over and over about that Dr. Red character, very annoying.