Our Weather Gurus have, in their infinite wisdom, prepared an “hourly forecast” for us today. Heck, they do it every day.
Probability of Precipitation
1%
10A-1P2%
1P-4P3%
4P-7P1%
7P-10P0%
10P-1A
Wed
Just to be safe, I’ll go roll up the windows on my car at 4:00.
Yeah, I could have said “Blood, Sweat, and Gears,” which I think I fell in love with back when I was a kid (thirty something years ago). But that’s so… cliche, don’t you think?
We had a busy weekend, away from keyboards and blogs and even our house.
We did have:
Not in that order.
Let me clarify a couple of things:
Birthday was my son and my mom (two days apart).
Swimming was in two different pools (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
ER visit was not me, or my kids, but my brother-in-law. I have pictures, but not permission to use them (they’re for his blog). He had a nasty spill while cycling on what was otherwise a beautiful if somewhat hot Sunday morning. Nothing broken except his helmet, lots of scrapes.
The Descent was freakin’ awesome. I haven’t jumped so much at a movie in I don’t know how long. I saw it at Midnite on Friday.
My son loves his new guitar, and I have pictures (they were “putting the band back together” on Saturday, we had a drummer, a flute, and a guitar, and a cheerleader). If I can find the camera, I’ll share.
My blog is pissed at me for being gone, so it’s a real effort to post entries right now. Go figure.
I went running Friday (25 minutes) and Monday AM (28 minutes) in the rain.
Yes, it rained here. There was much rejoicing.
It’s been a long time coming. I became aware of the Peters Map a couple of years ago. A friend has one on their office wall, a huge one, and I can look at this thing for ages and not get enough. What the hell am I talking about? I’m talking about a map of the world that shows actual sizes of continents and oceans in proportion to each other, instead of showing (for example) Europe and N. America as giant compared to “little” continents like South America and Africa. The Peters map projection has brought with it the idea that maps are political. If you want, you can read more.