What's everyone up to right now?

[zwanzig]

I procrastinated all day and didn't draw the plane. So, not doing that tomorrow.

[Fireball]

At work.


When  the weather turns cold enough that the water almost stops moving. Then you know weird  unnatural times are afoot.  

 I feel for the Brits etc during their current summer extremes exploding into flame at balmy 30' C temperatures.    

 Has warmed upto a bare able 47' F.    Still chilly, though.

I grew up in the midwest and have seen temps of -70F wind chill during a blizzard. That's why I don't live there any more.

I was born in Minnesota, but we moved when I was 3. My parents knew to bundle kids up, so I have all my digits. The rest of the time before I joined the Navy was spent in so. California, which was stupid hot. I spent two winters in Idaho, and the worst I saw (FELT) was -28 with a wind chill to -60. Bedamned if I can figure why people would want to live in that, given that it still gets hot and humid in the summer. Seasons? Bedamned to pretty colored leaves! I can see them on the internet! 

[Jackalope]

Sushi was a bust, they're only doing take out and it's date night so we ended up at the pub for sidewalk dining. I really hope sidewalk dining survives the covid era - at least in the summer.

[The Valkyrie]

Feeling like crap.

Going to bed.

Goodnight, all!

[polymath257]

Three winters ago, it go down to -28F here. That was a bit chilly.

When I grew up in Kansas, it regularly got over 105F in the summer. I think my record was 113F.

[arewethereyet]

Three winters ago, it go down to -28F here. That was a bit chilly.

When I grew up in Kansas, it regularly got over 105F in the summer. I think my record was 113F.

When it get hotter than the hubs of hell here in Texas I remind myself that I don't have to shovel hot.

[Angrboda]

Mike's hard black cherry lemonade. Not bad.

[onlinebiker]

Mike's hard black cherry lemonade.  Not bad.

Like the lemonade but it' s better with a shot or two of vodka.....

I always considered it as "drink - some assembly required".

[Rev. Rye]

Well, it's been a fairly low-key Door County vacation so far. We've seen two of the four plays we have scheduled.

The one-man version of Hamlet was pretty good, although, to be honest, I brought up the David Tennant version and it did overshadow that production. In addition, we got to see a show called Not Even Remotely, the story of two men trying (and failing) to put on a two-person version of the elaborate Frankenstein mega-musical they had planned before COVID in one of their basements via Zoom. They focused mostly on the musical, and, honestly, I actually liked their anti-villainous takes on Igor and Frankenstein. And it's shockingly rare to see them actually call the monster Adam, like in the original novel. And the monster is actually verbal (but barely).

Apart from that, and the fact that we've had two consecutive days where we had to find breakfast on our third or fourth try, the big highlight so far has been the bookstores:

At Peninsula Bookman Fish Creek:

• A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman. (and in a hardcover version without those fucking deckle edges)
  
• A Savage War of Peace by Alastair Horne, possibly the biggest book on the Algerian Civil War.
  
• Ficciones: Four Stories and a Play by Miguel de Unamuno.
  

At Peninsula Bookman Sister Bay: 

• Bound For Glory by Woody Guthrie. In what appears to be a facsimile of the first edition (differentiated only because the bio on the jacket flap includes the fact that he died.)
  
• A Nervous Splendor by Frederic Morton. Well, I have the companion volume about the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, why not the one about the Mayerling Incident?
  

At William Caxton Books:

• Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
  
• The Great Influenza by John Barry, a book that, no joke, was one of the first books I looked for when it became clear that the lockdown wasn't going to lift in time for my next Half Price Books visit. Evidently, given how much the price of the hardcover edition skyrocketed when I went to get it, I wasn't the only one to think about it.
  
• The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (an early, but not first, edition.)
  

Not sure if the bookstore at Top of the Hill is still in business, and I'll likely find more when we go to Sturgeon Bay on Saturday. And speaking of not sure it's still in business, well, two years ago, I stumbled into Stargazers, a New Agey sort of shop, and the girl running the store was barefoot. I regretted not taking a picture, and over the next couple years, I wondered about what would happen if I had the courage to ask to take a picture. Well, it turns out it's not there anymore. Of course, there's still a store near there with music gifts and I found some ukulele picks and even some sitar picks, because why the fuck don't the people who make fingerpicks make something this simple that's less likely to cut off the circulation in your fingertips?




Also, I somehow managed to find some good recordings of Dido and Aeneas and Fidelio and a Blu-Ray of Roy Orbison's Black and White Night in a second-hand store somehow.

[zwanzig]

Walking along the road this morning, I was startled by a doe running into the woods from right beside me. My knee jerk irritation prompted me to yell at her, "Watch it, lady!"