northeastOctober 29, 2005
It snowed this afternoon. Just enough that I had to get out the snow brush to clear the windshield before I drove down to the bus station to pick up Nancy. It was snowing even harder as I drove down 93, especially in Boston. Why do we live in New England?Earlier in the week Hurricane Wilma, Tropical Storm Alpha, and a northeast storm of epic proportions were all supposed to combine and feed off each other into something like the famous October Nor'easter of 1991. The weathermen got way too excited about it. We did get rain and wind and big waves at sea, and the south coast got pounded but here in my corner of the universe nothing flooded except a stretch of Rt. 114 that floods at the drop of a hat -- or a raindrop falling off a hat I guess -- ever since some idiot messed with a beaver dam and redirected everything. Beavers evidently don't get federal funding to rebuild their dams. Anyway, it just wasn't that bad. Sure there are trees down because the ground is too soggy to support them, but they managed not to fall on anything important like people or houses or cars. And even though there were huge waves at sea no boats were lost because the fishermen stayed in. Egads! I am writing like a grade schooler trying to fill up the page on one of those "themes" we all had to write. Obviously the gunmetal gray sky affects my writing. Why do we live in New England again?
Dinner at New Mother India took forever tonight too. We had to wait some time for a table, then some more time for someone to bring us menus, then even more time for the waiter to take our orders, and then some. By the time the Kashmiri mushrooms arrived I was hungry enough to eat the entire region of Kashmir, not just their mushrooms! And thank the higher power we ordered an appetizer because the main dishes took even longer to arrive than the mushrooms. There did not seem to be nearly enough waiters for the number of tables occupied. Weird.
By the time we finished dinner I had no energy left for our expedition to More than Words. Need to get there. All independent bookstores need my business, but this one is special because of what TeenLEEP is trying to do.
Today's
Bird Sightings
outside
my house
a few starlings
house sparrow
blue jay
American crow
herring gull
Today's
Reading
Neal Cassady Collected Letters: 1944-1967 by Neal
Cassady, The Silent Traveller in Boston by
Chiang Yee, Theatre of Fish by John Gimlette, The
Prophet of Dry Hill by David Gessner
This
Year's Reading
2005 Booklist
Today's
Starting Pitchers
No
baseball 'til spring. White Sox won it all. How about that 1
in 18.1 million shot?!?
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