After some weird visual effects that I've written up as a footnote to yesterday's post, I had a good night's sleep, Full (Blue) Moon nothwithstanding, didn't oversleep, didn't take my Concerta pill late, nothing.
A relaxed day, rainy/foggy/chilly out there, which helped me focus. Just found that several mountain passes have been closed in Switzerland due to heavy snowfall down to 2000masl (over 6,500ft). Glossy snow-capped peaks in the Alps for the beginning of September it is! (Not too unusual for winter to come early to those elevations, but not necessarily a very good thing as snow is an excellent insulator and can trap the heat in the rocks, leading to more ice melting nearby and hence to more glaciers melting off – "Fresh snow is an excellent
insulator. Ten inches of fresh snow with a density of 0.07 inches, seven percent
water, is approximately equal to a six-inch-layer of fiberglass insulation
with an insulation R-value of R-18" see http://www.snow-forecast.com/pages/nsidc-snowfacts.)
Got a few more things off my list of things to do; a few more came onto the list – what else is new? For example, a reminder re my MOT in October; my own reminder to arrange for payment of rent increase from mid-October; legal requirement to transfer rent deposit to a "safe" deposit institution: I have to make decisions, contact people – something I've always found quite hard.
Ah well, tomorrow's another day – the arch procrastinator's famous words, eh...
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