This is one of the most difficult of days. Moving computers to new rooms is always tedious and involves cleaning and un-scribbling wires and wires. Seems my cable connection, in the new room, is not activated and I cannot reach the internet from here. Comcast said it was,though. Who should I believe? My eyes or a provider who left this room 10 months ago? Hmm.
What to do? Relocate everything back into the living room or let it go? I could just hook up the wireless equipment and then I would not have to move anything, however, that also will take a lot of time and effort on my part, including watching the Setup Video for the software and hardware installation, the modem switches for the VOIP and cable would have to be re-wired, which could be another 2 hours lost to my life’s purpose. Today's life purpose is to get out of here by 6PM to meet friends for drinks on Jake's deck. Some of the best goat cheese stuffed calamari will be waiting for me, and a glass of cool Reisling from 2001.
It is becoming clear to me, that another 20 years of my life could be wasted by sitting and sleeping through the last days of my life, however, I am feeling a little antsy and not willing to sit through the last days of my life, on a hillside above the Puget Sound, alone, and certainly not until visiting those 1000 places, or so, I need to see and write about before I die, and posting all the travel pictures that I shall take, edit and publish for the masses who, unlike myself, may not have an opportunity to visit them.
There is a silence, today, around the neighborhood which is unusual given the fact that it is a Saturday. Perhaps it is because it is the end of summer and people begin to think ahead to winter times, and what will be required to get them and their houses through the winter months, which shall include harsh and frigid storms and winds, this year. Much worse than last year, when for 9 days we were snowed in because of a deep freeze and snow accumulation not seen on the shores of the Puget Sound in over a hundred years.
The winters have become worse over the past 22 years, since I moved here from Hawaii. At first, it was fun to experience snow on the hills in April, at Edmonds, when I moved there 20 years ago. I was snowed in many times, when no one else, East of me was snowed in because the frigid air whipping up off the Sound, from the North Pacific Ocean, would slam into the steep hills winding up the coast, along the PugetSound, dumping snow and sleet just for me.
Every year, it's a little bit colder, more snow falls, and freezing ice storms stop humans, frighten racoons and birds, sending them deeper into caves and tree stumps. The 50-70 mph winds rip off more roofs, pushes trees ontop of roofs, flip over boats, and kills more life, as animals try to cross roads to get food or shelter. This is what I am seeing living next to the forest, above the big water, in a small village on the Puget Sound.
December’s 1991 storm completely shut down Seattle, for another 7 days, when I loved and lived there. I remember walking in the middle of the carless streets, from Pioneer Square all the way to the Fish Market, and not a soul, except the snow plows, and lots of sun were out at that early morning hour. Cars and buses were abandoned in along the streets and on sidewalks.
Seattle was a frozen beauty, and I had keys to the 53rd floor of the Blue Building downtown (that is what I called it anyway).I went up to my office, with my photo equipment and a new tripod, and took the most amazing 360 degree view pictures of the Puget Sound, the Olympic Mountains, the Cascades and Mt. Rainier covered in snow and sun, every day, until the freezing rain and snow came back and the beauty turned into a monstrous slap in the face, to those unable to get to a store for milk or toilet paper, for 4 or 5 days, because the frozen sleet, and snow bound cars left in the streets and highways were stuck there and no deliveries were coming in. Pedestrians could not walk down hills because they had turned into ski runs, the kind I grew up on back East, which meant they had morphed into hills of ice in 2 days.
Woe to those who had no alternative heat source, since the electricity was out for a week+ in some areas. Since 1991, the weather, every year, gets harsher than the previous year, yet the humans walk around still believing we have mild winters and angels will take care of them, once again, while they are stuck in homes or cars along I-5, in Winter 2009-2010. My feeling is that we will be stuck in our homes, and businesses will be closed more frequently, even longer than the hellacious December 2008 storm.
This last year, I stayed at home for 8 days while the ice storms and 24 inches of snow, at ocean level, and raging, freezing cold, high winds of ice pellets, ripped trees and power lines. The storms were unlike anything I have seen, in my years living on the Puget Sound. So, my prediction for this year is more, many more storms will come and they shall visit for longer time periods.
In any case, as you can see since this blog was updated, I bit the bullet, and re-located my office into the sun room instead. Moved some art around, too,so this is better than I planned. Planning is something that I find can be fun, once I throw away the original plans, and follow the current inspiration.
