Foggy Friday

When Mother Nature spun her big roulette wheel this morning, the ball landed solidly in the "Fog" slot. As I walked into the kitchen on my way downstairs I glanced out the window and abruptly hit the brakes. Damn! If the fog was that thick at my house, I knew it would probably be even worse along the river, so I pulled on my knee warmers and headed instead over to Audubon Park for an easy spin. The fog was thick enough to make me nervous as I rode down Broadway, despite the fact that my trusty tail light was flashing away the whole time. After a couple of laps around the park bike path, I decided to venture out onto the levee path to see what it was like. As it turned out, it wasn't really any worse than it had been in the park, and by the time I was a couple of miles down the road it seemed to have lightened up a bit, so I put in a few miles up there before finally turning around. Indeed, soon after arriving home the sun came out brightly and I thought that would be the last of the fog. So you can imagine how surprised I was when I emerged from my morning shower to find that it was dark again and that the fog seemed to be actually getting worse. It's nearly noon right now and all I can see out the window here on the 25th floor is grey. Even the closest buildings are still hidden by this thick fog, although I assume it is much better down at street level. At least I got in a nice little spin this morning to compensate for those red and green M&Ms I had for breakfast!

The Daughter called last night when she got a text message via Orbitz that her flight for this morning had been cancelled. While she was on the phone with The Wife, though, Orbitz called to tell her that they had already booked her on another flight, so that was great except that she won't be arriving until 10:30 pm tonight. She'll be here only a few days, and then leaves the day after Christmas for Idaho, and the a week later she goes to Oregon, and then finally returns to Iowa City on the 14th.