weather update 2: an ode

cataractous vision

environmental smog

please. rain.

date night

in the midst of haze

and mugginess

we go

on a

middle-aged date

at a new izakaya HOM discovers

practically at our doorstep. very impressive

weather update

muggy hazy a tad smelly and quite unpleasant. more of the same tomorrow. the a/c is weeping in exhaustion, as am i.

in other news, am trying for a dopamine hit tomorrow with visit to the hairdresser. hair can always grow again and the prospect of something different is exciting and i hope i don't need this reminder in a day.

aural assault reflections

people have choices

and vote with their feet

and we can't even tell you

cos we already schlepped off

before the feedback QR code appeared

but

please

have mercy

choose good speakers

who are focused and clear and 

do not keep saying long story short

because their short comes from speaking veryveryfast

aural assault

today i skip church to attend a course. the premise is great: each speaker gets twenty minutes to update us about the latest exciting developments in his field and then we switch to the next fellow. quickly building up a strand of lustrous pearls, as it were.

unfortunately the whole thing pivots on choosing excellent speakers. which. some. people. so. are. NOT. hence we are subjected to a couple of well-articulated verbal train wrecks during which the audience quietly scrolls social media. 

at the end of the morning session i decide to schlepp off. if i have to listen to waves of words playing at double speed that make no sense whatsoever i might as well just read up the stuff at home.

if you think i feel crabby you are right.

final Q

dinner date to begin the final quarter of the year. on the one hand we can now start a legit countdown to christmas. on the other hand i am just a little bit horrified that the year has behaved true to form and continues on a runaway track to freedom.

in other news, his mercies continue to be new every morning as well, breakneck speed notwithstanding.

da haze of 2026

there is a fine mistiness to everything that looks almost wintry except for the temperature the green leaves AND THE SMELL.

yesterday's downpour was much welcomed is late lamented and barely budged the smog.