Update and interesting happeningsSo as my mother and I made nice and now she, my sister, and myself will all be going to Austin and staying at the Hilton. Very nice change of things. It is 1 am CST right now and we are leaving at 2. I won't bore you with travel plans and the likes but on a completely unrelated note, I walked outside for a quick smoke a few minutes ago (Yes I know, terrible habit) and as I stepped out of the house I saw the sky flashing brightly and heard thunder, though all of that was going on, I saw no lightning. I live on a tiny little drive that comes off of a larger road and I tend to walk the 100 or so yards to the road while I smoke at night. So I proceed to start my nightly trek and I can'...

Update and interesting happeningsSo as my mother and I made nice and now she, my sister, and myself will all be going to Austin and staying at the Hilton. Very nice change of things. It is 1 am CST right now and we are leaving at 2. I won't bore you with travel plans and the likes but on a completely unrelated note, I walked outside for a quick smoke a few minutes ago (Yes I know, terrible habit) and as I stepped out of the house I saw the sky flashing brightly and heard thunder, though all of that was going on, I saw no lightning. I live on a tiny little drive that comes off of a larger road and I tend to walk the 100 or so yards to the road while I smoke at night. So I proceed to start my nightly trek and I can't seem to keep my eyes off the sky. I saw one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life. Heat lightning was shooting through the sky every few seconds and I could see how it branches out and then dies off. I was completely distracted by this until I got almost to the road and I heard an interesting noise. On one side of the lane is a huge area of small trees and tall grass (Trees and grass in Alabama, who would've thought?), in that grass I heard a muffled blowing noise. Now the fact that my family hunts, and I have been with them a few times, I have heard a deer blow when it senses danger, but it sounded slightly different. It did it two more times before I got a bit creeped out and nope'd the fuck out of there. So all in all, interesting night.