My Exciting Life

I am an accountant by trade and I mostly do research accounting. When I tell people that, they usually respond with a snide remark about how exciting my life must be. I can easily take that in stride, since I actually like what I do most days and find it plenty interesting. I guess that would indicate that I have a lower "excitement tolerance" than most people and it probably explains why things have been a little too exciting for me lately. ************************************************************************************* Per last week's post, I live in a neighborhood that would be voted "Most Likely to Have Regular Shootings" if neighborhoods participated in high school superlative contests. Then Monday night as I left work, I was notified by our security guard that we were banned from leaving the building. Apparently, two suspicious packages were within a block of our building and the bomb squad was called in. After sitting in the lobby for two hours, we heard two massive explosions as they blew up the suspicious packages and then we received a police escort to our cars. ************************************************************************************* Tuesday morning, as I went through airport security, my bag was selected for additional screening. Through the course of the screening, they detected trace amounts of explosives on my bag and then went through a process of searching me and removing every item from my carry on and individually checking it. I still made my flight, but I saw the way other people were eyeing me and hoping I wasn't on their flight. If I can see one positive, it's that no one wanted to sit next to me on the Southwest flight and so I had extra room. *************************************************************************************Tomorrow I head home and I am hoping that the return flight is less eventful. The last few weeks have had more than enough excitement for me!