Where the hell are we? Cape Hatteras?

"Winds could gust as high as 55 mph."

Good morning from Minneapolis where we'll not be unfurling our sails any time soon.*

Quite early Thursday morning it's 26℉ partly cloudy skies; light south-southwest winds; barometer reads Fair; and visibility is 8 miles at the airport.

• Very strong winds will develop this afternoon and persist through the overnight hours. Wind gusts of up to 60 MPH can be expected over much of central and southern Minnesota, with wind gusts up to 50 MPH for portions of east central Minnesota through western Wisconsin.
—Area Forecast Discussion, NWS Twin Cities/Chanhassen MN

*Relative to Minnetonka, and our city logo notwithstanding, practically none of us has sailboats.

A knot is never "nearly right"; it is either exactly right or it is hopelessly wrong, one or the other; there is nothing in between. This is not the impossibly high standard of the idealist, it is a mere fact for the realist to face.
—The Ashley Book of Knots
https://dn790008.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheAshleyBookOfKnots/the%20ashley%20book%20of%20knots.pdf

#mnwx #sailing #knots #Hinterlandia #WindyAF #quotidian

Good morning from Minneapolis. It's hard to know what to do. Pet the dog, I suppose. See what he has to say, which isn't much. And yet he is most eloquent.

Quite early Sunday morning it's 40℉; gusty west-southwest winds; barometer reads Change; visibility 10 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high of 63℉.

- A series of wintry systems bring chances of rain and snow Tuesday into Wednesday, Thursday into Friday, and again next weekend.

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering.

I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable,
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

—Walt Whitman
https://poets.org/poem/song-myself-52

#mnwx #Hinterlandia #poem #DogsOfMastodon #quotidian

Good morning from Minneapolis where we've received a dusting of snow overnight along with much-needed rain. Hope it soaks in. Seems to be doing so.

Quite early Saturday morning we've light snow, fog, and mist; 28℉; northwest winds; barometer reads Change; visibility 1.75 miles at the airport.

Heading for a high near 43℉ Saturday, 63℉ Sunday.

- Another wintry system, producing a mixture of rain and snow, is expected Tuesday into Wednesday.

And the riverbank talks
Of the waters of March
—Antônio Carlos Jobim, "Águas de Março"

Spring ahead.

#mnwx #Hinterlandia #quotidian

This semester I feel like Jekyll & Hyde:

"This is amazing. I'm really impressed with the extra work and creativity here!"

"Unfortunately, you didn't actually do most of the assignment..."

"Wow, that's an insight I've never had. Great work."

"At some point, didn't you think that having no data and no results might lead to a less-than-optimal project?"

etc.

#professor #teaching #quotidian

"Don't forget your mace and mangle!" I call out to my son as he leaves for middle school.

#parenting
#quotidian

In the kitchen as dinner cooks, my 12-year old son tries to share innumerable mind-numbing details related to Chernobyl with me and my partner. I sidle up to my partner, put my hand lightly on the back of her neck, and whisper to her "Let's just snog when he talks like this." I lean closer, but she giggles and spins away, saying "I live with crazy people."

#quotidian

As I turned the page of the novel, I noticed a tiny spider, letting itself down to the floor, from the chair near my left thigh. Go in peace, I thought; good luck.

#quotidian

"How are we to speak of these ‘common things’, how to track them down rather, how to flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are" (Georges Perec, "The Infra-Ordinary").

#SundaySentence @bookstodon #reading #journal #quotidian #Georges_Perec