In which Central Maine rejoices in a Winter Storm Watch
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rolanniThanks for all of the carousel tips! You guys are more dangerous than the census ;)
Today was Monday and so to work. I woke up with a sore throat, which seems to be trying to work itself up into Something, and to which I say, "Avert." I've pretty much managed to avoid all the various Somethings this winter and would like to close the season in the black.
The day was bright and sunny and warm (40F counts as warm, yes?). I walked down to Roberts Union, a building I usually avoid because of the bookstore on the ground floor and, sure enough, those evildoers were having a book sale. I came away relatively unscathed, and the richer for two volumes: Far Beyond the Garden Gate by Don Brown, a children's picture book about Alexandra David-Neel's (illegal, but whose counting?) pilgrimage to Lhasa; and Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum, a reprint of the original book published in 1900. Captain Slocum was the first man to sail by himself around the world, in 1898.
In other news, we here in Central Maine are-or-will-be, as it says in the header, under a winter storm watch from Tuesday mid-day through Wednesday evening. The call at the moment is for an inch of snow tomorrow afternoon, changing to sleet-and-snow in the evening and leaving us with 4-8 inches of snow Wednesday morning, on which an undefined additional amount of snow and/or sleet shall fall.
What fun.
Progress on Longeye:
45414 / 100000 words.
45% done!
Today was Monday and so to work. I woke up with a sore throat, which seems to be trying to work itself up into Something, and to which I say, "Avert." I've pretty much managed to avoid all the various Somethings this winter and would like to close the season in the black.
The day was bright and sunny and warm (40F counts as warm, yes?). I walked down to Roberts Union, a building I usually avoid because of the bookstore on the ground floor and, sure enough, those evildoers were having a book sale. I came away relatively unscathed, and the richer for two volumes: Far Beyond the Garden Gate by Don Brown, a children's picture book about Alexandra David-Neel's (illegal, but whose counting?) pilgrimage to Lhasa; and Sailing Alone Around the World by Captain Joshua Slocum, a reprint of the original book published in 1900. Captain Slocum was the first man to sail by himself around the world, in 1898.
In other news, we here in Central Maine are-or-will-be, as it says in the header, under a winter storm watch from Tuesday mid-day through Wednesday evening. The call at the moment is for an inch of snow tomorrow afternoon, changing to sleet-and-snow in the evening and leaving us with 4-8 inches of snow Wednesday morning, on which an undefined additional amount of snow and/or sleet shall fall.
What fun.
Progress on Longeye:
45% done!
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Date: 2008-02-26 01:30 am (UTC)I bet the cancellations are already starting.
By the way, NPR did a big piece on potholes in Maine today.
Pot holes
Date: 2008-02-26 01:53 am (UTC)Those are moose prints.
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Date: 2008-02-26 02:41 am (UTC)The Slocum is a good read.