Day In the Life

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flood

This morning was cold, 29°, but not frigid enough to keep me off on that fabulous trike of mine. My goal, right now anyway, is to build up enough strength so that I can ride as far as Wollaston Beach  to take pics at sunrise AND make it back home to the Neck in, preferably, one piece.

mondo awesome trike

I swung by the Rock Island Cove Salt Marsh, always a stunning view, and found the marsh flooded. The hell? I knew it was high tide but I’ve never seen the water this high before.

The Amazing Bob and I always joke that, with Global Climate Change, we’ll have ocean front property in just a few years -- currently we’re one house back from the seawall. Just imagine our increased property value!

I’m thinking our glib, dark jest isn’t so far off from being reality.

Later, we stopped by the bookstore to pick up Jim Butcher’s latest, Cold Days, and JazzTimes  (betcha, you just can't imagine which of us is reading which!). Afterward Bob and I stopped for lunch at Louis, our neighborhood joint.

While there we breezed through the Globe and tried to catch the mid-day TV news. Unfortunately, they only had Fox ‘News’ on the screen I could see. Gotta ask -- what the hell’s up with the lunchtime newsreaders and news ’analysts’ team? They ALL, every last one of them, even their ‘experts,’ are bleach blond, red dressed, ultra thin, cheap porn vid types. Where do they hire these chicks? Never mind. I expect Fox ‘Talent’ Scouts have Vivid Entertainment Group on speed dial.

Mind you, I never tune into the Republican Party Propaganda Station so, dunno, maybe this wasn’t the norm.

Next up, I just gotta ask -- what are the qualifications for Boston Globe reporting/writing staff now?

In a section one, second page story entitled ‘Gunman among 3 dead in Oregon mall shooting,’ there's this:

'The mall is part of the Portland area’s busiest. It’s in a middle-class area that has become popular with families as falling real estate prices have put its homes just a few miles from downtown Portland within financial reach.’

First, please remember that commas are our friends.

It’s in a middle-class area that has become popular with families as falling real estate prices have put its homes, just a few miles from downtown Portland, within financial reach.’

Second, run on sentence much? What’s with the ‘has become popular with families as falling real estate prices have put its homes...’ bit? How is that aspect relevant? Yes, the mall is in a now (?) middle class area. Is the writer making some larger statement such as, possibly ‘this used to be an expensive area before the economy tanked. If not for that there could have been wealthy people offed today'. The HORROR!’

Eh, I’m assuredly reading too much into that excessive inclusion. If the author meant to say 'there's tons of kiddles around here. This could have been far worse' could he/she not have found a more clear way to state that?

Picky, picky, picky.

The Beatles -- Day In The Life