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Someone who is over the brink
Oct. 31st, 2017 04:06 pm
I should probably be keeping a daily Hell Meter, tracking my estimate of the probability that I am in hell, or we are in hell, depending on whether or not you actually exist or this is just my private hell (although that raises the old Cartesian problem of what it could mean to say that other things in my world are not real if they're all the things there are in my world). For instance, today began with a cat pissing on me in bed--that being the third time the cat has pissed on the bed in the last week, and the second time with me in it--and then I found a tick embedded in me, and then I couldn't get the tick out and thought I may have smushed the tick so that it couldn't be got out. The Hell Meter was very, very high! But then I got the tick out intact, which lowered the Hell Meter substantially. But then the washing machine didn't spin the pissed-on bedding properly, so it finished still sopping wet, and the Hell Meter went back up a bit. But then I figured out that it wasn't spinning properly because it was spinning a flannel sheet into a ball and unbalancing itself, so I took the sheet out and wrung it and opened it up in the washing machine, and then the washing machine spun properly, and the Hell Meter went back down.
And so forth.
Currently at Havelock: 4.6. High today: 8.3. Good chance of seeing our first snowflakes of the fall tonight or tomorrow. Which reminds me, Toronto is going to get through October without the temperature getting below freezing at Pearson ... which led me to wonder whether that would be the first time that had ever happened, but it turns out that since records started at Pearson in 1938 it has happened five times previously--in 1971, 1995, 1998, 2004, and 2014. This does look good to be the first October that Pearson doesn't record a a temperature below 1, though. It used to get below freezing at Pearson in September once out of every two or three years, but the last time that happened was 1993. Hey, maybe the pump will freeze and crack tonight! That would be excellent for the Hell Meter.
And so forth.
Currently at Havelock: 4.6. High today: 8.3. Good chance of seeing our first snowflakes of the fall tonight or tomorrow. Which reminds me, Toronto is going to get through October without the temperature getting below freezing at Pearson ... which led me to wonder whether that would be the first time that had ever happened, but it turns out that since records started at Pearson in 1938 it has happened five times previously--in 1971, 1995, 1998, 2004, and 2014. This does look good to be the first October that Pearson doesn't record a a temperature below 1, though. It used to get below freezing at Pearson in September once out of every two or three years, but the last time that happened was 1993. Hey, maybe the pump will freeze and crack tonight! That would be excellent for the Hell Meter.
