I was up late last nite and as I was finally climbing in bed to get some sleep I flipped the TV on and noticed that there was a show upcoming, on the HD Theatre channel, about the building of the Arleigh Burke class Destroyers at the Bath Iron Works (in Maine).

The Mrs. watched a little with me and the idea of a Destroyer flipped the switch in her head on the old board game Battleship.  Unfortunately for my wife and I it started up the question that I'm about to ask here: what are the 5 ships (or were there more) that were included in the game Battleship??

If you can't see the subtitle, the question I'm asking in the title for this article is for someone to please tell me just where the heck all of the rats on the roads early in the morning think they are racing to?

Are they all just trying to be the first to get into the office?  If they are, they are surely losing out to the other rats (just like them) that all seem to think they'll be the ones to accomplish that task.

Racing to get to school?  Ok, reasonable idea I guess, but did no one ever tell these people that there are classes that run in the later morning, afternoon, and heck even into the evening hours.

I got out on the roads earlier this morning, heading off to do some early morning shopping at a time when I knew the regular crowd and rush of people wouldn't be jamming up the Wal-Mart store.  In this one particular case I can say I probably beat the rats at their own game, as most of them will likely be out jamming Wal-Mart in the 10am and later time frame.  I know avodiing the place around the lunch hour is paramount, and don't even think about going near there in the afterwork time frame either -- that's when all of the rats that raced into work early for the day are on their way home and have stopped to shop for items before going home to catch the early news.

I wasn't far off in my guess about how long the power would be out here once it went out yesterday.  As soon as the power flipped off my mind raced to the severe thunderstorm warnings notice that had just flashed across the TV screen minutes before and I pretty much assumed that the power wasn't going to be coming back too quickly.

I hate waiting in lines.  Really, really hate waiting in line....