Ok, something's up. I just checked the 10 day weather forcast for Portland and I am a tad bit concerned. The 10 day extended forecast calls for dry, sunny to partly cloudy weather and COLD. Before you say "So?" please remember this is Portland Oregon, you know, in the Pacific Northwest. Where it rains from mid-October to just after Independence Day. And it is currently January. Odd. Something's amiss. If you take a gander at any weather map you'll see goofy shit going on. Last weekend in New York City is was 72 degrees. 72! Denver has had record snowfall back to back to back. Southwest Florida's been having a lot of rain the past few months and it's supposed to be the dry season there. (It appears they traded weather with us.) Parts of Canada that are usually buried under snow are surprising not white at the moment. But I'm getting off my point here.

I just ran out to the Rite Aid to grab a pair of sunglasses* because it was dark when I came to work this morning and failed to grab a pair of the multitudes of sunglasses stacked on top of the fridge and now the frickin' sun's out. And it appears it will be "out" for the foreseeable future. Don't get me wrong, I want the sun, I was whining about the lack there of only a few days ago, but it just strikes me as very odd. And perhaps very wrong. El Nino (pretend the squiggly line is hovering above the "n") or global warming, it's all the same. Mother Nature's got her panties in a wad and we need to listen up, she's one bitch we don't want angry.

Enjoy your weekend weather, wherever you are---and whatever you get whether it be rain, sun, snow or plagues of locusts.

*More sunglasses are sold in Portland per capita than anywhere in the US (according to Sunglasshut) probably because so many are misplaced during our 9 month winter. Or so I'm told.