Rivers that usually are 3-5 foot deep this time of year are flooding at 20+ feet. Things are ugly and a lot of people have their lives ruined.
General prayers are in order if you are so inclined.
Me? I’m fine, just a soggy yard. For once it is not about me.
Sure I’ve posted it in the past. I still dig it. And I really love dark curly hair.
Hey, is that a young Tyrion Lannister in that video?
Lots of people in the Midwest got hammered by storms yesterday.
We have had far worse storms and stronger winds and intense and occasionally scary weather.
Yesterday it rained as hard as I can ever recall. It was tropical storm-like in volume. Gutters overflowed, tiny waves formed in the cup-de-sac. The sheer volume of water cascading down my steep-sloped roof gathered in the valley and launched into the air like a waterfall.
We ended with one branch on the ground about 6foot long and three inches in diameter. I had it cut up and into the trash bin an about 20 minutes.
Does anyone else find the Brand Power commercials absolutely boring and uninspiring?
Some lady stands before a wall of products and recites boring ad copy.
Zzzzzzzz.
That corporation paid for those TV spots. Did the ad agency pass off the account to an intern? Even my cold call emails are more interesting and they clearly suck.
They chucked Mr. Clean for this?
I’ve been reading Shelby Foote’s history of the Civil War (namely Volume 3). I find him a very good historical storyteller, much the equal of the great Barbara Tuchman or David McCullough.
Foote has been criticized for his lack of footnotes, but I find that decision makes the narrative far more readable and accessible to the average-non historian reader. I’m fine with it.
At this point in life I want to enjoy history rather than study it.
Just as I found Ken Burn’s documentary on the topic enjoyable years ago (it featured Foote as a historian), I am having no issue reading a couple score of pages over lunch every day.
