{"id":1662,"date":"2012-12-18T13:06:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:34:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:34:45","slug":"rainy-days-sometimes-make-me-nostalgic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/12\/18\/rainy-days-sometimes-make-me-nostalgic\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Days Sometimes make me nostalgic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" title=\"IMG_0221.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0221.jpg\" alt=\"IMG 0221\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My head is still pounding because of this stupid <em>Cold From Hell<\/em>&nbsp;and I suppose the weather changes aren&#8217;t really helping.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful that the rain is in fact RAIN&#8230; Otherwise I&#8217;d be outside shoveling snow to keep the driveway clear. The weather people claim we&#8217;re supposed to see snow later in the afternoon but I&#8217;m beginning to doubt that. It&#8217;s 40F up here. I suppose that a cold front could come in later today and drop the temp by 8 degrees but the sky is trying to clear, so even if that happened I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;d be much to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still muddy brained and have been trying to do the memorization I need to do. But everything is still all jumbled up and nothing is sticking in my head.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that I&#8217;m nostalgic because the weather reminds me of being in the South and Midwest when I was in school. I&#8217;ve always had a hard time memorizing things&#8230; I remember events, and even many things I&#8217;ve read pretty well but remembering exacting formulae or equations has never been something I found I could do very well. Odd that&#8230; since you&#8217;d think that computers would require that kind of ability.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" title=\"DSC_1130 2.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSC_1130-2.jpg\" alt=\"DSC 1130 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also received a couple of emails today that while very welcome, have triggered a nostalgic frame of mind.<\/p>\n<p>One of these was a Holiday Greeting from the sister of an old friend. My friend died several years ago, but his sister and I exchange pleasantries several times a year. I couldn&#8217;t help but remember the last Christmas I saw my friend and how something seemed ever so subtly off. At the time I put it down to my friend having made a long drive across Florida just to see me. It&#8217;s a wonder that he made it at all in that beater he was driving.<\/p>\n<p>I can still see him driving away from my parents home a little blue cloud of burning oil in his wake.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That was the last time I saw him. We spoke several times after but it wasn&#8217;t until the end that he let on how sick he&#8217;d been or how much pain he&#8217;d been in.<\/p>\n<p>I miss him. Especially at this time of year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then out of the blue I got another email from someone I&#8217;d lost track of 20 years ago. Since I&#8217;ve observed that things come in threes I&#8217;m waiting for the last thing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This person is someone that I&#8217;d known way back at the beginning of time. He&#8217;s done pretty well for himself and that is a relief.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I sent him a highly condensed version of what has gone on over the past 20 years. I&#8217;m waiting for his reply. Nonetheless I have recalled quite a bit of the things that were going on way back then.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This has taken me down a mostly pleasant nostalgic path in my memories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see now that it&#8217;s hailing outside. Nice BB sized balls of ice. That will make the roads nice and icy and it will also make any snow removal much more interesting.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right\" title=\"NewImage.png\" src=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/NewImage12.png\" alt=\"NewImage\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mother Nature you are a cruel and heartless bitch!<\/p>\n<p>Well time to see if I can put anything more into this aged defective brain.<\/p>\n<p>Then I&#8217;m going to go about moving my desk back where it belongs.<\/p>\n<p>And the desk is back where it belongs. I&#8217;ve been outside shoveling snow twice now. Once at the high point of the storm and then at the end of it.<\/p>\n<p>Clearing the Ice balls was the hard part, clearing the wispy fluffy stuff wasn&#8217;t that hard the second time around.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230; the sky is clearing again&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Like I really needed to be outside in the cold&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ah well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;est la vie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those days. My head is still pounding because of this stupid Cold From Hell&nbsp;and I suppose the weather changes aren&#8217;t really helping. I am thankful that the rain is in fact RAIN&#8230; Otherwise I&#8217;d be outside shoveling snow to keep the driveway clear. The weather people claim we&#8217;re supposed to see &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2012\/12\/18\/rainy-days-sometimes-make-me-nostalgic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rainy Days Sometimes make me nostalgic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10245,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}