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 The wind got strong and the dust blew, but still far from the worst I've experienced. Today should be great. 

The successful launch of the James Webb telescope was a wonderful gift! 

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I finished my outdoor work yesterday, but so far no dust and no high winds. I imagine all that will come later. That's all right. I'd rather deal with above normal temps and blowing dust than ice, snow, sleet, single digit wind chills, and all the rest of that misery we would normally have around this time of year. But I know it's coming. Maybe the longer warm weather holds out, the less severe the rest of the winter will be. 

I just wish it would rain. 

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No white Christmas for Lubbock but maybe a brown (blowing dust) Christmas Eve and record high temps. That's happened before but I can't remember exactly when. Maybe in the eighties. This has always been a drought prone region. A "semi-arid land" but it seems to be moving in the direction of arid, with no modifier. Dry, dry, dry, dry.  Texas Tech used to take pride in an International Center For The Study Of Arid And Semi-arid Lands. ICASALS is what it used to be called. Haven't heard much about that in many years. Maybe like the MUMS it came and went. City of MUMS and city of CHURCHES... now, it's the city of what? 

I did some work outside yesterday and today I will finish the job I started. I want to get it done before the wind and dust become issues, and that is scheduled for tomorrow. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, all of tomorrow's tomorrows lead us at last to dusty death and extinction. No handy dun dress ( an allusion!) but only death. Ha. Ha. Some humor for the dismal season... and that's yet another allusion! I'm on a roll. 

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 Looks like near record warm temps this week. That's fine with me, but rain is needed. Awfully dry around here.

Apart from that, steady as she goes...

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 No snow in the forecast. That's good. I hate snow. Rain would be nice but no rain in the forecast. Warm weather will make it good to do some work outdoors. 

Omicron in Texas. I'm glad I went the Moderna route. That's what they were using at the Civic Center when I got vaccinated, so I got the Moderna booster at a CVS. No sweat. If I do get Omicron I expect to have only a mild case.