RTBTCKI The foggy calm before the cleansing storm

The fog last night was the kind of fog that you are warned about as a driver. Limited visibility was an understatement and the one car that didn’t have its headlights on was a true hazard. I picked my way to the bowling alley and home very carefully.

This morning there is a mist/fog in the air which is making the house across the street a bit difficult to see but much better than last night.

I think most of the people I know are OK who were in Michael’s path. There are one or two I haven’t heard from but I think they were still in their summer homes at this point so they would not have been down there. My sympathies to everyone who was. The photos and videos are the stuff of nightmares. I think the death count is going to go up after everything is said and done. The number of people staying put was rather large.

We had another round of kitty politics over this one spot that they all want to sleep on. Fig won but she knows if she leaves the spot, one of the other two will slide in. Inky and Mew have gone to their secondary spots and are napping out.

I got things to do. We haven’t restocked the larder in a while. Tomorrow I am off to the city to see a taping of Murphy Brown with some friends. Saturday Caroline has the PSATs. Sunday we are off to MST3K land for the day. Then we are rapidly heading for Halloween.

I have a lot on my mind these days. I really haven’t had the time to sit down and go through all of it and sort it out so I can get it out of my head. I am having a hard time even watching the comedy shows about politics. I need a break from the whole political morass to find my emotional balance.

Yesterday was World Mental Health Day and the focus was on Youth and Mental Health. I was working on a web log for that one but I really don't feel like putting it out there for a number of reasons. I have stated before that I know what I put out here is honestly here forever. I will only put things here that I would say in public and this was still a little private. But the paper from the UN was an interesting read and brings up issues that I think do need to be discussed. So entry later based on my unpublished essay.

I can tell when my brain is engaged when I wake up. If I can Sudoku then my brain is working at optimum. If I can’t even get started, then it is going to take me a while to do something. The second thing is my hands. If I can grasp things and don’t drop them, then good day. Shaky hand day is not a fun day. Threading a needle can take half an hour.

I am grateful for the days that everything is still working.