Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Be like looking

The photographs were taken on October 14th.

It was rather cold today, temperature below 0 °C both in the morning and in the afternoon. I need to use the headlight in the bicycle, as darkness creeps in. So far this year I have got 5,393 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem The Unreliable Narrator by Keith Waldrop.)

Monday, October 30, 2017

Every time I got to thinking

The photographs were taken on October 11th in Helsinki.

This morning there was a little bit of black ice on the road when I commuted by bicycle, so it was nice to have studded winter tires. In the afternoon I had heavy headwind, up to 14 m/s, so it was slow riding, and it took almost an hour to get home.

People close to Donald Trump are getting indicted. A nice start for the week.

(Posting title is from the song Surrender by Cheap Trick.)

Sunday, October 29, 2017

And for everything

The photographs were taken in Helsinki on October 10th.

The snow is fast melting away, but a little bit still remains. The weather forecast indicates that the rain should stop by Monday, and we might even get some sunshine. The length of day is now 8 hours 55 minutes, and shortening rapidly. Soon it will be dark in the morning when going to work, and dark in the afternoon when returning from work.

I have followed what is happening with Donald Trump, and quite a mess it is. One rather interesting thing about Trump is his body language, especially what he does with his tiny hands when he sits behind a table. It looks as if an alien creature from outer space is inside the bloated body, trying to get out. What is crazy is that this is less frightening than the fact that such a daft wanker is president. (Or is "daft twerp" a better phrase - I'm so bad with English idioms.)

(Posting title is from the poem The Meaning of the Shovel by Martín Espada.)