weather report

might as well be in olympia
as cloudy and cool as it's been
not only the past week
but most of the two months i've been here

while it hasn't actually rained significantly
even once since i arrived
there have been about four days
of drizzly mist

which is enough for my bike
to be generating significant rust
good thing i'm selling the old car soon
before it crumbles into oxidized shards

old car

bro-in-law left his wheels to use for a year

it's the berlin airlift around here today
for some reason planes every five minutes
although as low as they are you can't see them
for the cloud cover is even lower

it's so chilly
two families have the beach entirely to themselves
aside from the smaller than usual flock
of black-suited surfhounds



the grey-brown sticky marshmallow residue
is all but gone from the streets

thanks to volunteer cleanup efforts
following the annual OB july 4th tradition
of public marshmallow fights
.

i felt my first earthquake yesterday around 5 pm
(although i've been told i've been in a couple more)
a 5.4 centered somewhere up the coast
it felt like a big truck was rumbling by

i knew pretty quick what was going on
was very curious if it was going to pass after a few seconds
or if my life was suddenly going to get immensely more dramatic
what a weird feeling
it passed
.

i'm still not sold on san diego
so i dither getting my new license and stuff
but today's a better day after a crappy week
as i continue to detox

finding the return of my sympathetic nervous system function
most welcome
.

got another decent review and raise at work yesterday
which i guess means a greater likelihood of staying at the job
especially since i've got nothing else going on
.

this week's self-improvement goal
is to start taking up more space
less self-consciously

and at least
that's a
start