Weather Weirding

It's 42 degrees or so and windy in Brooklyn. Colder in the shade outside the fire escape window of the apartment I share with my wife and in-laws.

Global warming is real. Is it man made? Man certainly didn't do anything to slow it, that's for sure, but the Earth is always in a constant state of flux, on the geologic scale. Regardless of man's involvement, it IS happening.

Global warming doesn't mean that the whole planet gets hot in the winter; as far as my lay understanding goes, the sea and the average global atmospheric temperatures have risen by as much as 2 degrees over the past hundred years. This is, in effect, a MASSIVE amount of free energy in the atmosphere. Add energy to a system, any physics 101 student will tell you, and you change the entire problem. All that added energy's gotta be expressed somehow.

We saw some extra energy expressed very recently with the massive number of tornadoes ripping through the midwest. I'm guessing at a catastrophic hurricane season this year, but oddly enough, not in the Atlantic.

Storms will be more severe from now on. More rain will be transported to more odd places than before. This will result in mudslides from unaccustomed geology and flashfloods in other places.

The world is becoming much more interesting...

Once again up all night, trudging through Netflix and trying to bludgeon all thought out of my skull through internet-based video games. Star Trek Online now, with bouts of Tetris Attack and Fruit Ninja Frenzy. Hey, at least I kicked my crippling World of Warcraft addiction.

If you check my other blogs, I haven't posted to them in 6 years.

6 years.

For most people, that's a long time. For me, somehow, 6 years vanished in the blink of an eye.

6 years ago, dubya was still in office.

6 years ago, Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver were doing stand up gigs, and their phone conversations had not yet been recorded and presented in podcast format. That is to say, The Bugle did not yet exist.

In 2006, Paul, my favorite Beatle, turned 64, just like his song. My wife and I are holding a consecutive days streak. Linda, we miss you...

2006 was the International Year of Aspergers. As-per-ger-s is how I spell this disease with which I am afflicted.

Other handy mnemonics:

To determine the correct usage of 'who' versus 'whom,' try to convert the statement into an answer: "To whom it may concern..." becomes "It may concern hiM," with emphasis on the 'm' to match hiM with whoM, as opposed to "Who broke the lamp?" is "He broke the lamp." He is to Who as Him is to Whom.

Wednesday - Wed-nes-day. Wed nintendo entertainment system day.

February - Feb-ru-ary - Feb Roooo Airy.

She is better thAn him. He will arive thEn.

They're their there - They're parking their cars over there.

So what am I doing here? A valid question. This blog is for me. It's my current (sleep deprived, granted, but still a step in the right direction) intention to write something here every single day.

It may be that the most interesting thing about me is that I know all about the meaning of life (more on that in future posts).

See, I consider myself a writer of sorts. I'm sitting on a number of book ideas, I've got a scifi novel waiting for publishing, and that whole 'meaning of life' thing is something I really want to flesh out.

Jumping headfirst into anything, especially after such a prolonged idle period, can destroy. What I'm saying is that, I'm a runner, and this is my stretching routine.

If you're reading this, feel free to browse. Hey, I might even stick with it.

jj