Fields around are yellowing into harvest

[cincinnatus_c]

High today, here: 23. Dewpoint then: 15. High dewpoint: 16.
High today in TO: 23. Dewpoint then: 16. High dewpoint: 16.


High yesterday, here: 20. Dewpoint then: 14. High dewpoint: 16.
High yesterday in TO: 20. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 15.

High Monday, here: 20. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 14.
High Monday in TO: 20. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 13.

High Sunday, here: 16. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 13.
High Sunday in TO: 18. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 15.

High Saturday, here: 16. Dewpoint then: 14. High dewpoint: 14.
High Saturday in TO: 18. Dewpoint then: 11. High dewpoint: 14.

High Friday, here: 23. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 15.
High Friday in TO: 22. Dewpoint then: 14. High dewpoint: 15.

High Thursday, here: 20. Dewpoint then: 10. High dewpoint: 11.
High Thursday in TO: 21. Dewpoint then: 11. High dewpoint: 12.

High Wednesday, here: 23. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 14.
High Wednesday in TO: 22. Dewpoint then: 13. High dewpoint: 13.


You know summer ain't coming back when you step outside and it feels warm and it's 23 degrees. One on the plus side for late summer: squash are becoming cheap and plentiful, again. This feels like close to where we came in, but we're always coming in, going out and coming in. The streets are full of kids again. You'd think, if you didn't pay attention, that one of the functions of school is to keep kids off the streets, but actually, when school isn't pulling the kids out into the streets, they pretty much disappear.

Back to the top of the slide: when we left off, I was just about to begin, and most likely end (barring the improbable fruition of my long-time dream of opening a 24-hour Gothic Café, Bookstore, & Discothèque), my career as a superstar DJ. And then, Montréal, for a quintessentially Canadian bilingual wedding, complete with singing--surprising, for some reason--of an anglo Montrealer's song. I just wish I'd brushed up on the lyrics to "Gens du pays". And finally, late-night woogie vigil, ending with Mr. Woogie hopping in the back door to take a bath. Along the the way, intermittent Ernesto, fittingly French hotel clerk in the ghetto, pad thai in lieu of Vietnamese soup, and tri-annual ritual APA rejection, for flavour.

Comments

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

Don't you get rejected by the APA more often than once every three years?

You're rejected at least thridde-annually, for sure.

The all night coffee shop, bookstore and disco would jump start your career as a DJ. Go with that. I can't figure out what's up with the wedding.

[http://users.livejournal.com/cincinnatus_c_/]

Once every three years would be tri-ennial, wouldnit?

There are three divisions of APA--East, Central, Pacific--so that does indeed make for three per year. Potentially, anyway. This is the first year I've bothered about Pacific.

I can't figure out what's up with the wedding.

But the stuff about Mr. Woogie is perfectly clear? ;P

The wedding involved singing prompting kissing. I'm not a big fan of prompting kissing, but I am a big fan of Leonard Cohen, and also of showing off, so I sang a verse of "Dance Me to the End of Love".

"Gens du pays" is the Quebec sovereigntist anthem. It was also sung for prompting kissing.

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking of publishing, where bimonthly means every other month (6 per year), semimonthly means every half month (24 per year), and biweekly means every other week (26 per year).

The internet shows that this almost as confusing as weddings in Quebec:

I checked out dictionary-dot-com and came away with these:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=tri-annual
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=triannual
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=triennial

So, they think tri-annual and triennial are synonyms while triannual can mean anything you want. If any spelling of "triannual" meant exclusively what you used it for, I'd have thought "tri-annual" would be it.

I checked bimonthly, as well, and the do the same thing:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bimonthly&x=17&y=14

People have such a hard time with the idea that "bimonthly" means (bimonth)-ly rather than bi-(monthly) that the dictionaries have given in and said "it could mean whatever you want it. Stop bothering me."

That's a factor of four difference between the two meanings biannual, and a factor of nine, basically an order of magnitude, difference between the two meanings of triannual.

And, of course "thridde-annually" come from the same root as semiannually. Maybe a better spelling would be "threddiannually."

Anyways, it obviously wasn't funny because I had to explain it, and explain it in detail, but you got a publishing joke and a Middle English joke combined.

Don't say I didn't give you anything.