Winter on Pause Again

The weather has been nice the past several days. After the previous week's atmospheric river that brought days of rain and caused flooding in mud slides in some areas, including washing out a portion of scenic Highway 1, it's nice to have a change. This weekend the afternoon temperatures are in the mid 60s (about 18° C) around home. It's nice enough out with the clear, blue sky that I went to enjoy a piña colada on the balcony Saturday afternoon....



Unfortunately since it is still winter— early February, last I checked!— our outdoors furniture is still packed away. I didn't feel like unpacking a chair from downstairs and trundling it upstairs just to sit on the balcony for a while. So I stood there just long enough to kill half that frozen cocktail before heading back inside to finish it up... on a comfortable chair.

It's equally nice again today (Sunday). We took advantage of the weather to go hiking in a favorite mountain park in the area. I hope to post a few pictures about that soon. Ugh, I am so backlogged on hiking photos right now!

Well, I'm satisfied we're making good use of the nice weather. But you know what? I'd happily trade this back in for a summer free of drought conditions. Bring back the rain!

Sports Superball!

Today is the Superball of Sportsball, or as everyone is calling it this year— probably for bullshit trademark reasons— The Big Game. I always feel like a Schmendrick for how little I care. ...Which is sad because this year the USA won. U-S-A! U-S-A!

...Of course, that was because both teams were USA. Yes, this is Superbowl LV (IIRC from Latin class, that means Superbowl Designer Handbag) and like all preceding Superbowls the only teams in the league for this "world" championship are USA teams.



So little do I care about it that I didn't even know which USA teams were playing... until I saw an ad for it this afternoon. It's the Kansas City Chiefs and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, BTW. ...Which is funny (to me) because the last time I cared about sportsball was so long ago that those were two of the worst teams in the league!

At that rate by the time I care again maybe the Superball will feature the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns. 🤣