Maybe Rain?

 Up to a tenth of an inch! Maybe. And maybe a light dusting of snow/sleet a few days after that. Our temps have been well above normal for the time of year. Good. Well above normal sounds fine to me. That rain forecast means that a few scraps and shreds of what hit California are on the way to us. Since you can't have any REAL rain here without a barrage of hail and damaging winds, I'd just as soon have no rain at all. Screw it. It's just no fun being victimized by a mindless force of nature. That happens all too often. In fact, that's life. Isn't it?

Cloudy, Windy, Dusty Yesterday

 Cloudy and windy and dusty are on the agenda again today. Live in this area and you have chronic sinus problems. 

But I'd rather have the dust than snow or ice. And temperatures are really mild!

Cloudy Today

 It certainly won't be cold. Elevated fire danger so the winds might be high today. No rain likely. So it goes. What I am currently reading is a large hard cover collection of stories from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Excellent stuff. I like everything about BOOKS. I like the tactile quality, the heft, the smell of the pages. Take your "smart phones" and stick them where the sun don't shine. I have, in fact, many many more books in this house than most people will ever encounter in their lifetimes. Those I read and decide not to keep go to the Friends of the Library for resale and others to enjoy. Many I do keep and many of the books in my library are worth re-reading and some have been re-read many times over the years. Permanent in my collection are books by Bart Ehrman, and James Tabor, and Elaine Pagels, and books on math and physics and history and many other topics. And there's a lot of fiction worth re-reading. Philip K. Dick, for instance! Dickens. Victor Hugo. Flaubert. Balzac. James Joyce. And on and on. Books to savor and books to make one think. And other books to entertain and divert. Thank goodness for gifted writers. 

But you won't find any contemporary right-wing trash, that's for sure. Look in vain for the likes of Sarah Palin. None of that garbage. 

 

Getting Warmer

 Our mild January continues, and it feels good. 

My routines are well-established, and I plan to maintain the status quo, no matter what. 

Windy And Dusty Today

 We seem to be stuck in that pattern. It'll be warmer today than yesterday and much better by the weekend but the wind will be unrelenting. So it goes. Are people getting dumber? Does anyone think anymore? How many people still read books? Everywhere I go I see faces stuffed into those damned "smart" phones, no conversation to speak of, and a lot of places have treacly and creepy "praise music" seeping like some kind of neurotoxic fog out of their speaker systems. Background music for the lobotomized. It's all very depressing. I feel sometimes that I'm living among pod people, that the body-snatchers have won, although it might be more like an invasion of brain eaters and the brain eaters are gaining ground. Resistance is useless? The battle for rationality is lost? Seems like it. I have plenty of good reasons to avoid people!