It's cold again, but this morning it's cold and windy; it's blowing offshore. The pear tree outside my bedroom window is losing leaves to the wind and out front on the street more leaves and litter are being blown down the street, not up it as usual. Fall is really here.
I left my window open just a little last night, no more then an inch, but it was enough to let all the cold in and all my hard won heat out. I curled up beneath the covers, trying to keep the edges flat against the bed so that no cold air could make it's way to me.
I look outside my window and it's not just the pear tree that gives the wind away. I can see airplanes taking off from John Wayne! Usually I see them landing, but because the wind has switched from the predominant direction, so have the planes, and instead of seeing them land I'm watching them take off. I'd like to be on one of them. I feel bad for the passengers, because when the winds are offshore they miss out on the famous climb out of Orange County. Wealthy neighborhoods on one side of the airport demand that the airplanes be as considerate as safely possible, making them climb abruptly from the runway. There aren't any wealthy neighborhoods on the other side of the airport--the side that the planes are taking off towards today--just a defunct military base across the freeway with no one left living there to complain.
I stole the new Matt and Kim album "Sidewalks" the other day. It's really really good. I'm not gonna talk about it yet though, because I'm just not in the mood. I'm leaving in a few moments to go surf though, and will most definitely listen to it on the way down there.
this morning's track:
blacking out the friction - death cab for cutie
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