Ides of January?

It’s the middle! And YES, I have more than half the miels to get 200 for January (about 170). Yesterday, in hindsight, the bus would have been a good idea. The winds did *not* wait for me to get to work and there really were “gusts to….” (30? 35?) and I was reminded of being blown across ice on the Country Fair stretch (it was rain in town; I was pedaling North with a wicked west wind and erm, the bike just … went forward and sideways at the same time. THANK YOU INERTIA!) No ice or anything but … it was swervy and just not particularly fun. (I don’t mind work. That’s fun The crap blowing all over the place, though… )

Today I put on the WARM coat and YES!

Yes, I sailed home and I saw I’m *pretty sure* that same lady with the cute dog in cute outfit, about half a mile further west than Tuesday, when I was rolling an hour later… and I know I smiled seein’ the pup Tuesday and she calls out “You are so beautiful!!!” …. “Thank you!!!”

Yesterday we had a new “emergency alert” for a “snow squall.” Yes, there were some seconds of angst whne **everybody’s** phone went off at once, but yea, weather. IT *was* a pretty ferocious, sudden burst and friend on bus said they did pull over tho’ driver thought the bus would be fine. (And yes, that happened 10:00 ish, NOT when I would have been out there.)

Tired this a.m. Drank beers last night (not Mon or Tues) …. did online prayer group and then …. watched live footage of Minneapolis with 16,000+ other people as they chanted F*** ICE and the riot enforcers sprayed at them. THey’d shot some people again earlier, but “only” in the legs, I believe. At around 11:00 — close enough to on the hour to make one suspect they’d been clockwatching — they said gosh, if y’all move away, we can drive through! to which somebody with a bullhorn duly noted that if they *let them through,* they would be able to get into the neighborhood and detain people, so they didn’t… so then the ICE guy said okay, *don’t follow us,* and we’ll leave…. and then they left in a cloud of pepper spray.

Online somebody had asked gosh, why are they doing all this stuff in MN not elsewhere and someone duly noted that …. they don’t have that many people but our dear lawmakers are giving them more money to hire more; another journalist had applied, not completed any background check information, and was offered a job anyway, so … people with records of things that should preclude being hired can get these jobs with the bonuses (and yes, members of assorted groups endorsing such things enthusiastically are amongst them).

TOmorrow will prob’ly be a bus day (esp. since Wednesday should have been and yea, I got in a good workout) b/c “up to an inch” of snow tonight and who knows?