The triumph of hope over experience

[jhetley]

Well, I rushed my schedule for the bike ride due to a weather forecast -- "Thunderstorms due between 8:00 PM and 10:00 PM." So now it's nearly 10:30 and I'm looking out the window at a nearly-full moon and dry pavement....

At my age, I should know better than to believe those false prophets.

We seem to have a mix of melanistic woodchucks around here. Scared up another one, out between the GE plant and the Air Guard base hardstands, nearly black instead of the normal glossy brown. But maybe he got into an oil spill. That base dates back to WWII, and the military has never been particularly careful about dumping nasties.

15.1 miles, 1:04:30. Damned traffic lights.

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[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, the thunderstorms flashed and boomed and rattled their way through at about 4:30 AM, thankyouverymuch. See the funny people yawning and groping their way through the rest of the day....

Further adventures of....

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, turns out that morning round blasted the steeple of a Methodist church down the road a bit, and rousted Elder Son out of his bed in _his_ apartment so that he looked like death warmed over when he stopped by for lunch this noon.

And the storms wandered by again this afternoon, about half an inch of rain in twenty minutes, lightning strikes on houses and businesses here in town, fire trucks howling this way and that. I _told_ those people not to stir up the Wrath of God!