Trying not to be too late for work. There was a jumper on the train tracks today which stopped everything for a couple of hours...
It rained on and off for most of the day, so I'm going through Mom's books and stocking the livingroom bookshelves with the ones Sis and I are keeping. There was a beautiful cotton candy sky at sunset when I sat down to take a break. (ETA: Candy floss sky, for the Brits. )
I love sunsets. That description, cotton candy sky it perfectly describes the best sunset I've ever seen on my vacation in Maine. Salt water lake on my right, pine forest on my left, rainbow colors dancing on the clouds in the sky, rainbow colors reflected on the lake. A rabbit on the moon. Sunset lasted over an hour and a half.
Trying to revise a story at work, but I keep getting interrupted to put out emotional fires....Maybe this belongs in the first-world whinging thread, but I'm not actually complaining, so I don't know. I think I've broken through on this story, which makes it a bit worse that I can't concentrate on it.
I managed to get some photos of the poor thing before it died, but I don't have the cable for the camera atm. Seems it was a pygmy shrew.
speaking of machines and dead things, did you look at 'Strike' in Poem's(?)(yer's?)(ours?) 'story perspectives' conf
Watching the lightening from the thunderstorm that's directly overhead, listening to the local rock station, and jumping every time the thunder cracks loudly, even though I'm expecting it, because it rattles the whole house.