First day of the new year

Ripping winds outside. Cold. Spaghetti sauce w/ Italian sausage simmering. Dr Who marathon on the telly. Work to be done. I had to stop and think about what day it was–doesn’t feel like Sunday. Still have one day’s holiday after today. Then the work week starts. All the things that have been put off since mid-December because of Christmas vacations are going to hit us all in the face splat.

Better savor the next two days.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.

Predictions for 2012

Courtesy of DISCOVER magazine, and based on !Science!

1. Objects dropped from rest will accelerate toward the ground at an approximately constant rate, up to corrections due to air resistance.

2. Of all the Radium-226 nuclei on the Earth today, 0.04% will decay by the end of the year.

3. A line drawn between any planet (or even dwarf planet) and the Sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times.

Go here for the rest.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.

Considering the future

I swiped this quotation from Elizabeth Moon. I was not familiar with it, though I have been a fan of Dorothy L Sayers for years.

“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

One day, I was driving home from somewhere or other, and I saw my future. A bright red Honda Fit tootling down the road, driven by a white-haired old lady. In my mind, she was a “dog lady,” who traveled when the spirit moved her, and knew how to fit a jar between the door and the jamb to open it and slide heavy things on rugs and cardboard to move them from room to room. Who maintained her independence as much as possible, and swore to do it for as long as she possibly could.

And who set people back on their heels because she didn’t fit into the “little old lady” mold, and they couldn’t figure her out.

::knocks wood that it comes to pass::

I anticipate that freedom from convention and the expectations of others. I ponder this inclination of mine to prepare for it, and wonder if I should just hold my nose and jump in the deep end of the pool.

Mirrored from Kristine Smith.