THINGS IN THE MIND

Two years ago it got over ninety degrees F in the city on this date. Today it will be far from that. Which is good. It makes it possible for a slug like me to actually move around. Weather extremes don't. And people have been, in bland say-nothing attempts at conversation, remarking that we're having wonderful weather. Two years ago at the beginning of October they were saying it was wonderful too, because there wasn't anything they could do about it and it's traditional to praise ungodly heat here. Not entirely the same people. But those of us bellyaching that it was horrid and someone should do something the fault of capitalist pigs ruining the planet time for bloody revolution if only it wasn't too hot to move and oil the guillotines darn it all back in our day sonny were a minority.

Common sense and decency safly always is.
Even in San Francisco.

Tomorrow it might hit eighty degrees. Which is still pretty awful, kindly see aforementioned need for bloody revolution and guillotines, plus lubrication of moving parts. Particularly grooves with fatty build-up. And replace the basket. Something bigger.

One of the things I remember from several years ago is the time we found a snake inside the building under one of the cabinets. Very tiny, when it curled up in fright it was smaller than a silver dollar. It freaked out my co-worker, who has a phobia. So both of them were terrified. Unlike him I thought it was cute. I gave it some water and put it outside in a shady place.

This illustration does not relate to any of that. Flooding in a subtropical region following a typhoon. Something I did last week, but couldn't tie in to an essay. Really, what interesting data could I provide? Typhoon, wet. Much wind. Very wet. Yay.

I'm sure you already knew that.

We've had extraordinarily good weather this summer. Hardly any overheating, no freak storms, no plagues. And fewer tourists.


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