October 2024 – Page 2 – Books and Coffee

October 5, 2024

Music: In My Headphones This Week “What More Can I Say?”

…to you baby
when I’m out of words you haven’t heard

This is (also) from Teddy Swim’s album, “I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy Part 1,” appearing just before The Door. I like the speed/density of some of the lyrics, such as:

please
don’t go
got my heart rate up (real high)
vocabulary (running low)
out of breath I keep (going and going)
oh no

So catchy…

October 1, 2024

Life: Hottest Day of the Year (So Far)

Screenshot of an iphone displaying a preview grid of reflections of blue and brown (from pollution) on water — I am exactly the sort of person who stands on the back of the boat, taking entirely too many photos of the colors reflected in the boat’s wake at dawn. But you knew that about me already.

It was 93 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco today, our hottest day of 2024 so far. (Any day when I’m in shorts at a bus stop at 6:30 AM is already too hot a day.)

I fear it won’t be our hottest day overall.

As a native San Franciscan, I’m only fully operational up until about 78 degrees, so this was a tough one. Yes, I remember that day when it got up to 106. No, I do not remember that fondly. Yes, the whining here could likely be heard from space.

I’ll be optimistically hoping for fog in the very near future.