THE COMING OF SPRING

One of the regulars, a sane man who is certainly not an idiot, came wandering in wearing what he usually does -- a teeshirt and jeans -- and complained that it was cold yesterday morning. Umm, ya think?

At that time, in addition to pants and two socks on each foot, I was wearing an A-shirt, a teeshirt, a plaid shirt, and a thick sweater-like garment. So I tssk, tssked to sympathize.

Again, I stress his un-idiotic qualities.


Sometime later a younger fellow with shorts and a teeshirt came in. I cannot say whether he was a non-idiot. He may have rubbed himself all over with bearfat before garbing himself as he thought best. Most other people who came in remarked that it was way too cold, a few waffled fondly about their vacation in Bora Bora. Cold affects each person differently.

A friend who lives in Singapore is presently visiting Amsterdam, where there is snow on the ground, people slipping on their ass on the street ice, and the little schoolkids are killing their taun tauns to shelted inside the cadaver surround by the warm wet pulsating flesh, like their ancestors did centuries ago. The Dutch normally wouldn't harm a fly, but this winter they are being driven to extremes.

He loves it. First visit. it's a fascinating place.

And there's cheese. He loves cheese.

Being a stoic phlegmatic type naturally I have nothing to say about current temperatures. It's all fine with me. I take it as it comes. Far be it from me to have any strong opinions positive or negative about weather patterns. I suspect that I've hardly ever said anything about the temperature either way.


Why, I hardly even noticed the piles of rigid frozen penguins on the way to the bus stop yesterday morning. Minor inconveniences! A man capable of gingerly stepping over streetpeople frozen solid would have no problem with stiff little tuxedo lumps.

Oh look, an addict perished in mid injection.
The needle is halfway to his lips!

There are no icebergs in SF Bay. None.
I don't care what you've heard.
Fox News falsehoods.



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