CompuServe Thread

Recently, I pulled some trophies out of the closet where they'd been languishing. One of them has come a bit loose… (if you've never seen how trophies are constructed, basically there's a bolt or several bolts holding things tight vertically… if the bolts are loose, the trophies have about as much vertical stability as a drunk) anyway, it's pretty loose, and I've got it sitting in my office, on the floor, where I was planning to get to it and wipe it down then take it to my school. When I got time. Ok so far. Well, as I said, it's a little loose, and it's leaning back, looking almost bent (it's leaning at two separate points, adding together). Mostly it just sits there. I should mention that my office is on the ground floor, and the floor is solid concrete – it's a 75 by 125 foot slab, in point of fact. Several times in the past few days, the trophy has begun to sway back and forth (east-west), and twice it was moving at least an inch to an inch and a half. I couldn't feel a thing… and I closed my eyes and sat right on the floor in front of it. Interestingly, If I blow on it, hard, at the top, it sways but not that far, nor does it _keep_ swaying the way it was when I watched it. The house, the slab, is built on a hill of gravel and mud, more or less. As far as I know, northeastern Montana is a pretty stable area – but I am the first to admit I don't know much at all when it comes to this. We're about 5 linear miles from town, and the only thing I can think of that might be causing that much disturbance is perhaps a heavy freight train, again about 5 miles away at the closest. What do you (anyone with some knowledge) think is happening here? Have I accidentally constructed a seismoswayer? Is the trophy haunted? Are peices of the crust coming back from the moon to haunt me for doubting Kameron and making the earth shake? Willl Oprah have me on? I won't go! <grin> Anyone know of an internet connection, or web site, where I can get seismic info for this area? Ben Williams UnShaken, but slightly shook, in Glasgow, Montana