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I gots here sompin fix you right up.
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My jets are being cooled.
DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.I'd say it's been raining pretty much for over a month straight, most of it warm systems, or definitely not winter-like whatever else you want to say, with a day of sunshine maybe once a week.
SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE TONIGHT AS A STORM SYSTEM IMPACTS
THE REGION. GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE COASTAL PLAIN
NORTH OF TRINIDAD AND ACROSS THE EXPOSED HIGHER TERRAIN OVERNIGHT.
THIS STORM WILL ALSO BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS...MAINLY TO DEL
NORTE COUNTY...OVERNIGHT AS IT CLIPS NW CA.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
A STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN RA TO THE REGION
SUN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL RANGE FROM 1 TO 4 INCHES...WITH
LOCALIZED AMOUNTS UP TO 6 INCHES POSSIBLE IN OROGRAPHICALLY
FAVORED AREAS. THIS HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE LOCAL STREAMS TO RISE
RAPIDLY WITH LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING OF URBAN AND LOW-LYING
AREAS. TAKE EXTRA CAUTION WHEN TRAVELING SUNDAY...ESPECIALLY NEAR
STEEPER TERRAIN...WHERE ROCK AND LAND SLIDES WILL BE POSSIBLE.
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Everything was achy and heavy and dull and I thought to myself, why am I upright if I'm talking about all my jet cooling? So, heck, I got in bed. Of course I fell right out, and all the little dogs in the neighborhood had turned into big ones, up to some conspiracy or other out there. I could hear someone opening the mudroom door and pounding up the steps, came straight in and sat right on my bed with me to watch the video. It took some great attempting to thrash and only being able weakly to move one hand I could determine it was the same fellow who comes in here naked sometimes only he had his clothes on this time and wasn't grinning avidly at me for once. He was watching the video.
When suddenly I realized that my bed was where my computer is and my computer was where my bed is I realized that guy was a dream too. I mean, he never shows up without making a lot of noise, and I can feel him just as surely as I feel my fingers tapping away at my keyboard now, and my bed sags with his weight just as though he were really here, but, well, if he's here, he's on the other side of here.
Oh, I'm sleeping, very well. I'll sleep. So I turn over, having regained enough consciousness to move my body again. I turned over in my bed in the rafters of my great barn home, where electric universe researchers come to do their thing and, Dave has come up to my room to record his voiceovers for his videos. He's down at a desk on the floor below my loft, very hard at work. Quite insistently going at it. Every time I think he's going to get up to answer a call or go down for a refill of coffee, nope, back at his voiceover. This goes on for a long time. At some point I realize I am sleeping again and feel I'm being a bad hostess, so I try to get up. I only get half up and sort of flop forward like an upside down metronome and my big white standard poodle afghan hound mix comes over to cuddle with me... keeps having to maneuver around me when I flop.
At length, I decided that all of this dreaming I'm awake and finding that I'm sleeping in my sleep is pretty much too pointed to ignore and I oughta just get up, if only for a while, pee, look at my email, have a cup of hot half and half with coffee in it, smoke a cigarette, lament the electronic tweeeing in my bones, plot my course to Utpalabhutitude. So I did.
First thing, there's Alan joking. You might be more bewildered by it than entertained, but it's actually real laugh out loud stuff there.
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This storm is cold. Couple weeks ago it was a steady 64º and then last week it was a steady 62º... we're talking through the night... I just looked at the thermostat and it's 60º. I don't really need to look at the thermostat for that. I can tell by when my feet won't let me do anything until I put on my uggs. That's 60º and down. I'm almost afraid to mention that the wind hasn't gotten ugly yet....
Anyway, did you remember we are springing forward tonight? Write your congressperson and demand that hour back.
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BTW this progression from 64º to 60º as we near the official start of spring?
That's backwards.
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It's after one in the morning, and I'm looking at the radars. Everything north of I-80 and west of I-5 is getting rained on. Do we get to quit bitching yet? And should we organize a pilgrimage to the Mojave next month to look at the bloom?
