Another Monday morning, and just no way around it — overcast and a bit chilly on California’s north coast with some real-winter weather due here this evening and tomorrow.
We’re forecast for hail and even snow, but who’s to say — not like the US mid-section (again): Chicago could be buried by up to 10 inches of snow by midweek, forecasters say, adding another harsh chapter to a winter that started out balmy.
Our winter so far has been about-near non-existent, and soothing.

(Illustration found here).

In Florida, my old residence state, discontinued the search for the guy sucked out of his bed last week and into a sinkhole: The search for Jeff Bush, 37, was called off Saturday. He was in his bedroom Thursday night in Seffner, a suburb of 8,000 people 15 miles east of downtown Tampa, when the ground opened and took him and everything else in his room. Five others in the house at the time escape unharmed as the earth crumbled.
I attended the University of Flordia, located in Gainesville (about middle of the state) and there were sinkholes all over — some were pretty small others covered acres: “Losing a house to a sinkhole is very common, losing life is uncommon,” says retired University of Florida geologist Tony Randazzo. “Most people will have some warning of the pending doom or catastrophic collapse. But there apparently were no warning signs of what happened at the Bush house. That would be very scary.”

And horror story of the weekend comes from New York: Police continue to search for the driver of a BMW and a passenger who fled an accident after slamming into a livery cab, killing a young pregnant woman and her husband. Their unborn baby survived.
Terrible, messy scene via video at the link.

And the heads-up item for those dumb-ass people in DC — Senators Claire McCaskill and Bill Nelson will introduce legislation to cut pay for members of Congress if federal employees are furloughed due to the sequester.
Via McCaskill’s Website: “The federal workforce is looking at furloughs that would result in a sizeable pay cut-and there’s absolutely no reason members of Congress should exempt themselves,” McCaskill said. “We can and should reach a balanced compromise to replace these damaging across-the-board cuts, but until we do, this is an obvious step to hold Congress accountable for the job we need to get done.”
None of those rich assholes will be effected by the shit off the sequester, a stupid plan instigated by these same stupid people. Wonder if McCaskill’s motion will fly?

And Mitt Romney thinks he’s back and continues to be tone deaf and still full of pious shit: “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “I have to tell you, the hardest thing about losing is watching this critical moment, this golden moment, just slip away with politics.”
Still a wanker of the purest sort.

And White House peoples have reported those sequester cuts won’t happen overnight, or even for months. Many folks won’t feel nothing — for instance, Social Security and Medicare payments and paychecks for military forces are exempt from the sequester. Some say the whole shebang is overblown.
Rutgers University political scientist Ross Baker: “The shrug with which most Americans greeted the fight over automatic spending cuts tells us something important about our system of federalism: that most of what touches our lives on a daily basis does not come out of Washington.”

Even in the modern world, history has a way to whip-lash back around on you. Climate change will only make old, terrible shit worse. In with the ancient, out with the nowadays.
Via The Atlantic:

As if we hadn’t already seen enough Biblical events this year, a plague of over 30 million locusts swarmed over Egypt’s cities and farms just three weeks before Passover begins.
But put your apocalyptic fears to rest.
This happens every year as part of the locusts’ natural migration pattern, though this year’s swarm is especially large.
That doesn’t mean Egyptians aren’t freaked the heck out by millions of nasty bugs buzzing through the air at all hours of day and night, possibly descending upon the agriculture fields where they’re known to destroy entire crops, just like in the actual Passover story.

Another work week starts in a few minutes — out the door, onto the liquor store.
Kinda like poetry — sometimes  I feel just like a queen.