Entryway of the Dipper, 17th Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Betelgeuse):  That trough of low pressure located northeast of the Leeward Islands has become Tropical Storm Fernand but is  moving toward the North Atlantic, so who cares? 

However, the tropical wave located about 650 miles east of the Windward Islands continues to develop as it moves quickly to the west toward the Caribbean. Locally heavy rainfall and gusty winds are possible Sunday and Monday across portions of the Windward Islands, but the National Hurricane Center maintains that conditions over the warm waters of the central Caribbean are unfavorable for further development. 

We'll see. I'm not so sure about that one.

I didn't get my walk in today even though it's a Betelgeuse. Rain. That's my alibi. It was probably possible to have gotten a few miles in after three o'clock, but by that point I had lost all my enthusiasm and energy. Third missed walk this month. I'm blaming climate change for all this rain and all the missed miles.

I did terribly on the NY Times news quiz yesterday, missing three of the 11 questions. Here's a news-quiz question: why are there always 11 questions, and not 10 or 12?  Seems pretty sus to me. Anyway, I apparently didn't realize that Zelensky's outfit at last week's meeting in the White Hose was a black suit, and not black military jeans and t-shirt like I had guessed. I also didn't know that an advisor to NY Mayor Eric Adams handed some reporter a potato-chip bag full of cash for some reason. And finally, I apparently missed the story about an Air Canada flight attendants' strike. If I'm being honest, I got lucky on the last four questions: what the new acronym MS NOW stands for (I got it right by eliminating the other, silly answers), which WNBA player just scored 44 points (Paige Bueckers), one about a robotic athletic contest in China, and a lucky guess at the names of two coyotes in Central Park (Romeo and Juliet). 

Finally, TIL that the Stable Genius is deploying an additional 1,700 National Guard troops to 19 states, including Georgia. "Georgia" means Atlanta, with its black mayor, Democratic voters, and urban setting. National Guard troops patrolling the dead-end cul-de-sac traps and poorly lit streets of Atlanta - what could possibly go wrong?

These violent delights have violent ends. Just sayin'.