This week was busy but not busy.
It was strange, a phase change perhaps.
Almanac / outlook, Mar 10 to 16
Deteriorating warm weather early in the week followed by rain and colder temperatures from Wednesday on.
Initially the daytime highs will be in the upper 60s, later decreasing to the low 50s.
Lows will be in the 40s, or just 40, all week.
Running will be a challenge on Wednesday and Friday.
After the clock change, sunrise is just before 7:30, and sunset is just after 7.
Soon there will be 12 hours of daylight.
The moon will reach full this week; nights may not be dark except for cloud cover.
It seems unlikely that we will be able to see the total lunar eclipse this week.
Day Bits
Spring is happening.
MAR10MON
A community garden plot is much more of a blank canvas than a small raised bed in the back yard.
And I don’t mean just because it’s bigger, there’s something else, even if I can’t quite get a handle on it.
This space, just carefully cleaned of weeds and set apart from everything else, suggests that it could be made into anything, anything at all.
Now I’m slowly pushing over another wheelbarrow of compost to spread evenly over the top, slowly because the bearing in the axle is totally shot, and now because I want it done before the rain comes later in the week.
The slow pushing has given me a little extra time to think about all of this.
Now even that little extra time is over.
It only took a half dozen loads to cover the plot with rich black soil.
MAR11TUE
I regret my first visit to a doom scroll site in almost a month.
It was only for a few minutes but even so, I could feel my brain melting from just this brief encounter.
The never-ending stream of community consciousness is just a jumbled concatenation of anything anyone decided to put there.
I attempt to make some kind of sense of it all but each post is just random and pulls my attention in a new direction.
It’s a mess.
I feel exhaustion beginning to creep in almost immediately.
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, but a digest might help.
An evening edition of the most interesting posts in the last 24 hours, but not some complicated algorithm designed to hijack us for an alternative purpose.
Just some points for creativity and popularity will probably do it, maybe some groupings under themes.
And there we would have it, a first draft of the day’s zeitgeist.
Wasn’t there a whole industry built around that concept?
Whatever happened to them?
MAR12WED
The rain came in the afternoon, hard and fast.
I could hear it through my in-ear buds while I took a meeting.
It maintained a relentless intensity until night.
A downed treed on Santa Teresa, and a removed roof on White Oaks.
This wasn’t supposed to be an especially impressive storm, but Bay Area Never Forget.
MAR14FRI
There wasn’t a great reason for it, but today was a slow day, low energy, difficulty focusing.
Maybe I was fighting off something, a cold or other infection.
I didn’t get my run in, put it off to tomorrow.
Hopefully this doesn’t stick and just taking it easy for a day is enough to get over it.