As most of you probably know, I'm now the morning breaking news reporter at The Desert Sun.
Having this assignment means different things on different days since there's not always local news that's truly breaking — at least as I define breaking news.
But on days like today, when we hear a report of "three subjects total, subject with the gun down" over the police scanner, it means one thing: Get in the car and go.
I spent most of my day at the scene of a triple shooting in Cathedral City that police are calling a murder-suicide.
It was not altogether unlike a couple of Fridays ago, when I was out in Indio for most of the day near where police were searching for four escaped inmates.
However, that earlier breaking story did keep me at work longer. That day, I both arrived at and left the office while it was dark outside... but I still trekked out to Indio to fill up on some Santana's (Tempe translation: Filiberto's) and then booked it over to the other end of the valley to see Loggins & Messina play at the Morongo casino in Cabazon.
BTW, the show was totally worth it... even without the nap I figured I'd need to make it to — and through — the 9 p.m. show. And let me just say that Kenny Loggins is my hero for many reasons, not least of which is the fact that he can get all Mariah up on stage while still being the badass who sings the Top Gun theme.
But I digress.
So anyway, today I left the newsroom while there was still some sunset left in the sky and again took the freeway over to fill the hole in my stomach with a Santana's bean-and-cheese burrito. Luckily, though, the only thing on my calendar for tonight was a date with the doctors of Grey's Anatomy, and I think they'll understand if I take a raincheck and watch them on Hulu tomorrow instead.
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