I guess I can skip the rubdown with SPF 70 this morning.
Huh. Must be a national-holiday weekend on the horizon. ’Cause there’s plenty grim-looking clouds up there to keep it company.
Looks like a page-one meeting at The Washington Post:
“Gloom, yep. Despair, check. Agony, roger. How about a light feature? ‘How the delta variant stole Christmas?’ We need art, maybe a Barbie on a ventilator.”
Gaia must have the DTs. She’s boiling Lake Tahoe like a teapot and power-washing Tucson like a redneck sheriff blasting hippies and coloreds off his streets. A brother-in-law had to drive from Maryland to Louisiana and back to rescue a daughter whose Nawlins vacation went all Waterworld on her.
And unvaccinated Americans are advised to avoid Labor Day travel. Ho, ho, etc. Unless they’re traveling to a vaccination clinic to terrorize health-care workers.
Me, I’m just glad I got a nice ride in yesterday, ’cause it looks like the surf’s up today. And when it comes to surfing, you can call me Charlie.
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September 1, 2021 at 8:59 am |
I’ve been meaning to watch Apocalypse Now again.
September 1, 2021 at 9:16 am |
I bet they surf now; probably when the rich Americans come to see the “peak.” Pretty soon rich Americans will mountain climb in Afghanistan. Conrad’s words are true, over and over and over………
Instead of watching Apocalypse, I think I will hit on Coconuts. Want to buy some land in Florida. Right on a barrier island with a view of the beach! Such a deal. And, you get all the free Regenaron you want! We have an infusion center in the lobby operating 27 by 7.
September 1, 2021 at 9:26 am |
Actually, I should read Conrad’s book.
September 1, 2021 at 11:14 am |
If you want to read something a little less dark of heart, try “Anxious People” by Fredrik Backman. It is an odd bit of work with more than a few tricks up its sleeve; I was taken by surprise a time or two. Absurd without being ridiculous, it might give you a fresh appreciation for humanity, a species about which I have many doubts.
September 1, 2021 at 12:01 pm |
Doubts? About homo SAPIENS? Surely (or is it Shirley?) you jest, PO’G!!
Albert Einstein: “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
🙂
September 1, 2021 at 11:01 am |
Ah, the Marx Brothers. I’ll bet I saw those dudes more than their momma did.
September 1, 2021 at 9:18 am |
What is that patch of blue stuff up there over the trees, the stuff with the clouds swirling around it? It vaguely reminds me of something, but I can’t quite place it.
September 1, 2021 at 11:16 am |
Youse guyses still getting smoked out up there? Hal was complaining about that the other day. I can’t imagine things will get much better soon with the Caldor Fire running at full throttle. That sumbitch ain’t playin’.
“The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority and North Lake Tahoe Visitor Bureaus in a joint statement Tuesday afternoon asked visitors to postpone any planned visits to the Lake Tahoe area due to the Caldor Fire until further notice.”
Remember The Good Old Days®, when a warning like that would’ve seemed absurd? People took their medicine and saved the deworming paste for their horsies.
September 1, 2021 at 1:56 pm |
Herb’s feeling guilty. No floods, infernos, twisters here in the Mitten State. Just blue skies and 75 degrees with next to no humidity. And I’m drinking some Tennessee Carmel Whiskey with Apple Izze Sparkling Juice watching the clouds sail by. We have a rare northeastern breeze which is holding down all the shit boiling up from the South. If I can work up the energy I’ll saddle up the bike after dinner and see what all is going on around town. A twinge of Fall feel today and The Strawbs 3 part Autumn song is playing in my mind.
September 1, 2021 at 2:50 pm |
Herb, ain’t retirement the real life? Just waiting for my buds to show up to watch “Echo In The Canyon.”
September 1, 2021 at 3:07 pm |
Well, the weatherperson keeps talking a good game, but I just banged out a five-mile hike without getting washed down an arroyo to the Rio, or even dribbled upon by anything other than the sweat from me brow. So I guess that visit to Davy Jones’ Locker is just gonna have to wait.
• Late update: Well, that oughta larn me, but it won’t. I had an errand to run at 5 p.m. and just as I prepared to leave the house the deluge commenced. Had to break out the North Face heavy-weather gear and everything. I will never be smart.
September 2, 2021 at 12:05 pm |
Yep. Hit the road from Bombtown at about 5. I was headed home from the factory and it might as well have been driving through the base on Niagara Falls.
September 2, 2021 at 7:45 pm |
All’s well that ends well, I guess, but a school bus from my old district almost learned the hard way that water on the road is always deeper than it appears.
https://wtop.com/frederick-county/2021/09/10-children-driver-rescued-by-boat-in-frederick-co-after-school-bus-trapped-in-flood-waters/
September 3, 2021 at 7:57 am |
Let’s go surfin’ now, everybody’s learnin’ how, come on and safari with me. …