I half-expect to get in a fender bender someday because I and/or the other driver drove around a bend and caught sight of Mount Rainier in all its monstrous volcanic glory after it's been absent or barely visible in faint outline form for a month or so.

It's really hard to make yourself watch the road on those days. Pretttyyyy giant dormant volcano.

It's very hard not to see mountains in LA, but after the rain's scrubbed everything clean (which is happening again, dammit) you go from nice, nearby, yellowy mountains, to nearby green mountains, and then a couple of beats .. wait! More mountains! Far away! With ... white stuff??!? Were those always there?

Pretttyyyy giant dormant volcano.

I love the way it just sits there, all by itself, going "Yup, I'm big, I'm pretty, I could blow up any year now. I'm da mountain."

Why am I picturing mountains wearing reversed baseball caps or tutus? Perhaps I'm anthropomorphosizing them a bit much.

I have no mountains to see, but the sky is ridiculously clear here. I wish that 'bright' translated better into 'warm'.

I half-expect to get in a fender bender someday because I and/or the other driver drove around a bend and caught sight of Mount Rainier in all its monstrous volcanic glory after it's been absent or barely visible in faint outline form for a month or so.

I've had this sort of happen, though it was pedestrians only. There's a spot on UW's campus where you can see Mount Ranier really well on clear days, and one day it took me and another walker by surprise, and we walked right into each other.

(which is happening again, dammit)

I KNOW. Seattle needs to come get its weather back, darn it.

Bah. Just got the rejection letter from the job I applied for. "Dear Applicant", blah blah blah.

I remember why I took my job now.

Back in the day when I did Weight Watchers (this was, oh, 1998 or 1999), if I was exercising regularly, I consistently ate 2-5 points above the maximum for my weight group, and still lost 1-2 pounds a week.

I was the same way when I lost a bunch of weight on WW back in 2000-2001. I even usually took a day off the program altogether each week, just to keep myself from getting too annoyed with tracking every bite that went in my mouth. I'll probably go back to doing that after a week or two to establish myself in the habit of not living on junk food.

I love the way it just sits there, all by itself, going "Yup, I'm big, I'm pretty, I could blow up any year now. I'm da mountain."

LOVE the image of Mount Rainier in a baseball cap talkin' trash to the Cascades and the Olympics. Though the Olympics are kinda my favorite, especially in all the places where you can see them with the Sound in the foreground.

I KNOW. Seattle needs to come get its weather back, darn it.

We do, we really do. The Cascades are at something like 20% of normal snowpack. Which for now just means all the ski resorts are shut down, but if it doesn't change soon, means water conservation, a possible energy crisis, and dead salmon this summer. Thing is, I don't think it's actually appreciably drier than most winters--it's just been so incredibly warm except for a week or so earlier this month.

OTOH, I also got a packet from my company today, too. I have a retirement plan now! I may as well be written in Greek, and I have no idea what I'm doing with it, but I feel like a grown-up!

Has anyone heard from deb grabien recently?