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I started this post at 11am, and I'm now finishing it at 3pm! My photo gallery has had a problem for a couple of years, and it finally forced me to fix it in order to get this photo posted and linked, so I guess that was a good thing. There was also a problem with my ISP that I had to resolve, which I did, and it pointed out another problem, SO MUCH FUN!

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Technically it isn't: we got some snow it was either early this month or late October, but it was very limited and the only reason it persisted was because of the cold. And it had a very peculiar fall pattern: it was like it fell better at lower altitudes than at the top of the mountain here!

ANYWAY, this one is legit. Thorough, wide-area, cover. While it's no more than a couple of inches right now, the only brown ground that's to be seen is directly under the carport, so pretty much zero wind.

But I'm not going to bother a photo of it. Instead, this is a photo taken in 2015 in Bad Shandau (?, IIRC), a spa town (that's what Bad means) along the Elbe in Saxony, Germany, a bit north of Prague. Very nice town, at the base of some lovely mountains. I saw all these coffee cups sitting on the fence posts, and I have no idea what's up! Did they just collect and accumulate them over the years, are they or did they run a coffee shop?

I do not know.


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Thursday night we got back from my annual trip to the National Institutes of Health, everything went pretty good, but the trip was cut short a day because they were going to do one thing and the plan got changed and they didn't have some gear in to accommodate the change, so I get to go back in January. Oh, well.

One of the constant joys of visiting NIH is they frequently want me to produce a sputum sample. And I CANNOT produce a sputum sample on demand. You can make me inhale a high-concentration saline mist for 20 minutes, it doesn't help. And again, this trip, no sample. We get home Thursday. Friday night I'm feeling a little "Am I getting sick?" Saturday I was definitely sick and immediately coughing up crud from my lungs. Yesterday fever of 101.5. Saw the nurse/practitioner (we don't have any GPs up here, plus she's known to and works with my immunologist) and confirmed that it had already moved in to a fully-involved sinus infection, complete with bulging ear drum. Ordered antibiotics, wife ran down the mountain and also brought back life-saving green chili stew from Casa de Suenos. Also a large container of their red salsa. Nectar of the gods.

Last night was miserable, waking up every hour or two to take a bit of water and go back to sleep. Somewhere along the line my fever broke and I'm doing a lot better, though still really cruddy.

This morning was interesting: I got up, looked out the back yard, and it was snowing! Russet surprised me and said that they were expecting it to snow at the observatory over the weekend, but it didn't. Turns out they were a day off, not unlike the request for my sputum sample.

This is a stitch of three photos looking out my back door. It was all gone an hour later. Our house faces south, and the front had pretty much nothing. So you can see that I'm not joking when I say that I live in a forest on top of a mountain! But it was very nice getting to watch the snow fall.



Tonight Russet cooked up some Boolkogi from Trader Joe's, essentially Korean BBQ, along with some Asian friend rice, also from TJ's. Quite yummy. And we watched John Carpenter's They Live for Halloween. It's been 15-20 years since I had last seen it, and I think that will be enough time to pass before I need to see it again. Excellent social criticism on unchecked capitalism and greed, but still just not a very good movie.

First snow

Oct. 30th, 2015 11:25 pm
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It's been raining a lot up here recently, and today it was finally cold enough to change the state. My wife and I were in Alamogordo for most of the day and it was all gone when we got home, which was pretty much what I expected. Looks like it'll be below freezing overnight, but no precip.

I've been wanting to note when it starts snowing up here, and I thought this would be an easy way to do it.

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