Less Wind! More Warmth!

 March is not looking bad at all!

More warmth! It pleasures me!

Rain? Snow?

 SLIGHT chances of rain and or snow in any measurable amount. But windy is something you can count on. Par for the course. Not all that bad, actually, for early March. An El Nino this season would be a nice change! I'm rediscovering the joy of Dover Books. I've had the two volume RISE OF THE NEW PHYSICS for a long time but I've ordered some other books from them, on subjects I explored back in the mid-eighties. Dover is a great place to get classics. 

One thing I've never been able to understand is a "desire to live". Life is an unfortunate accident, isn't it? An imposition? One makes the best of it and you can take consolation in the fact that it goes away, finally. Life is an insult and an injury, all in one stroke. Isn't it? Quite absurd, in its very essence. I find that I can make the nonsense tolerable by keeping things simple and focusing on the welfare of others. The "self" is a wretched thing. Isn't it?

So, Not Bad

 Not bad at all. Relief from dust storms, at least for a while. 

I'm now well into Bishop Pike's "The Other Side".  It reads a lot like fiction, and not very good fiction at that. Certainly a lot of it seems self-serving. But the poor guy is dead, and he was on the right track about so many things. He was brave enough in his time to acknowledge accurate scholarship-- to accept the implications. 

A Spring-like Pattern

 That is what they say, and it stays dry, dry, dry. Pray for rain! Where is Uri Geller when we need him? Wind is down, too. 

I can deal with that. I can be content with that. 

Yesterday Was Weird

 Started off with heavy fog and light rain, transitioned to mild wind and sunshine and warming then up came the HOWLING WIND, with gusts in town up to hurricane force, massive amounts of blowing dust, and sustained winds of 45 to 55 mph. That crap continued from about 4 PM to 2AM this morning. I got through it OK and didn't even get noticeable dust in the house. But it was an annoying example of the brainless PU, that idiot machine, grinding away, subject to the laws of physics. And we are not done with the wind yet, although it should not be as bad as it was yesterday. Today it might be more normal crap. I have not checked the news yet, so I wonder how it was farther west of here. Probably much worse. Anyone who tells you that the universe is hospitable to life is a moron, and a fool. 

Those who believe in intelligent design are living proof that there is no such thing. An intelligently designed universe would not be plagued with half-wits.