Decline

There was sunshine when I set out on my shopping trip today, but heavy, low clouds gathered before I got home, and tonight there could be more rain. After tomorrow there will be several mostly clear days, but they will be cold, and the nights will be very cold indeed. It's definitely feeling like winter already, though some of the trees have yet to shed their last leaves and my yard is still strewn with many of those that have fallen. I should get a chance to rake them before the next round of rainstorms arrives early next week.

Last night I let the computer do the disc check that now goes so slowly. It took close to fifteen hours, and wasn't done until early this afternoon, but the machine has been stable so far today (though still terribly slow) so maybe it was worth it. I was asleep about half the time it was going on anyway, and got caught up on some reading (of stuff printed on actual paper) part of the time. There was also some television, but damned if I can remember any of what I watched.

There was something else I was going to write about, but both my memory and my attention span are so diminished these days that it has left my mind altogether. Maybe I could figure out some way to use that big empty space where my brain used to be for something else. But then I'd probably just forget what I'd put there, and wander around the house looking for it. Oh, well. I decline, like the year.


( Sunday Verse )