Physically Fiscally Frugal
October 26, 2014Thick, dark clouds this early Sunday on California’s north coast — supposedly rain is to slow today, down to cloudy tonight and back to fog on Monday. Just a respite, though, forecast is for more…
Category Archives: Economy
Ebola — Up the charts, Number 5 with a Bullet
October 21, 2014Overcast with a near-calm wind this Tuesday afternoon on California’s north coast — sortie forth once again. Too cloudy earlier this morning for ‘orionid‘ watching,, unfortunately I was awake but the darkness passed uneventful. Life…
Drought Deluxe
October 17, 2014(Illustration: NASA satellite image of California’s drought, late January-early February 2014, found here). Drizzling sprinkles this early Friday on California’s north coast as the season slowly shifts, a little quiet, too, as yesterday afternoon turned…
Sales High
October 15, 2014Good news on the 10-month-old legal marijuana sales in Colorado front: No mass deaths, and sales are high as a kite. Some interesting figures from research-land Colorado — sales revenue off recreational marijuana continues to toke…
Oil Dreams
October 14, 2014Rain this afternoon finally, and apparently here on California’s north coast we’re expecting maybe a coming week’s worth of soaking. And beyond the beach, oil is making headlines, again — this time for a hefty, jig-saw…
‘Jinx’ Juxtaposition
October 10, 2014A fog-soaked early Friday here on California’s north coast, feels like it’s fog-soaked all over the world. The NWS calls it ‘patchy fog,’ but there’s not a empty/patchy spot anywhere, and we’re also forecast for…
Dream Middle!
October 2, 2014Part-n-parcel on the road to the Great American Dream (via the Washington Post): But then there are deeper factors at work. The economy has gotten bigger, but much of that growth hasn’t reached the middle…
Age of Old
October 1, 2014Another sunshine-splashed afternoon, flavored with a fairly-chilled breeze — otherwise, near picture perfect. Old people. I’m now into my second month of retirement, and sort of weird as shit, peculiar only in passing. Yet at…
Oily Repugnance
September 30, 2014Intense sunshine this afternoon and a pleasant, comfortable wind — gorgeous! One more for the Left Coast: California is the first to ban plastic bags at the state level. Gov. Moonbeam Brown signed the law…
‘Urgent’ When?
September 27, 2014Warm sunshine and a soft, cool breeze this Saturday afternoon, on California’s north coast. Weekend days are so different those days in rest of the week on a shitload of levels — even the tempo…