I got new curtains today. The sun can get pretty belligerent up here under the rafters, but now man's ingenuity has defeated the cruel eye of the day-tyrant!

While my dad an I were putting them up, I had the soundtrack to the movie Sinister on, barely audible. At one point my dad looked up from the runner. "What's that we're listening to?"

"Um, music from the movie Sinister"

"Well, it sounds it!"

That's a good horror soundtrack. Up there with Session 9.

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It is not a rumor. It is an actual thing someone told me.


It's snowing outside again, but it's clear that the thaw has set in. Frost, I shall miss thee.

This morning the heavens opened. Turns out there was a thunderstorm no-one had seen coming. Here's a map of all the recorded lightning strikes:


You can't see where I live. It's underneath all the lightning. My mom just called me and said that her workplace was without electricity, and that their basement had flooded.

In lighter news: MY CREATURE! IT LIVES!

We're in a silent movie. Everything is black and white.

"I've been cold all my life, Harry. Too many years putting on too many sweaters and not enough coal in the scuttle. Too many years when the sky did not show so much as a crack of blue on the first day of June nor a smell of hay in July nor a dry day and winter begun August 1st, year on year. I can't take it any more, Harry, I can't."
 Ray Badbury - Henry the Ninth

Today is one of those bleak days where everything is gray and soaked. You begin to doubt the existence of the Sun, and wonder if algae aren't a superior lifeform. You wanna immigrate to California or Mercury.

Something I've enjoyed today: Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890​-​1950.
Isn't the internet wonderful? Interesting and powerful music from half a world (and a lifetime) away, available for the asking. If the religious sentiment had done anything to soften the volcanic rock that is my atheist heart, I'd thank the heavens for this treasure trove.

I'm unemployed and looking for work, but the prospects are looking a bit grim. Business is fleeing this area. Yesterday Vestas, the world's largest wind turbine maker announced that they're closing down several of their Danish operations, including the local factory. This is a huge blow to the southern islands, and my area in general.

Schools are closing too, to the point where we'll only have a private school and a rather run-down place in the poor end of town. Bah.

Much to my delight it's snowing again. Watching it makes my anxiety drain away, bit by bit. It's like watching an hourglass fill up in slo-mo.

The Danes are pretty blown away by the months of snow, and are not at all used to it. On the news the expression "insane snow inferno" was used, which I rather thought was overkill. As Dylan Moran says (about the UK and Ireland, but it applies equally here), we talk a lot about the weather because we don't really have any. You'll here people say "it's fierce MILD!"

Then there was a 'moment of zen' kinda thing where the TV crew visited a family that was "completely cut off from the outside world". Heh.