The sun has come out

After a period of interminable raininess and fog all month long, the sun was finally out pretty much all day. Better, the day lasted past 5 p.m. This is a really good sign.

Speaking of rain gets my thoughts turning to water. In spite of all the rain, there isn't a snowpack to speak of. That means, for people who can afford it, the skiing was bad. This is bad for the entire region which depends on the snowpack to feed rivers and reservoirs.

Thank God there's lesbians on Postcards from Buster to keep anyone from worrying about water shortages, hiked electrical rates and the like. Anytime I start to worry about the environment or money I'm glad there's an ideological battle out there that's so specious. Better than gossip about Paris Hilton.

Speaking of the environment, my plants are suffering. My orchid (phaelenopsis(?)) is I think giving up the ghost. It has a woody, brown stalk and one of the leaves (it has four) is all yellow. I have been watering that bad boy every day with the sprayer with the orchid food. Is it the fault of the grayness of January in Tacoma? Also my polka dot plants are not doing so hot; they are getting super tall again and stalky. I am afraid of cutting back the nice-looking bits to shrink them down although that has worked well in the past for me. I worry there's some sort of upper limit to cutting back when they're in itty bitty pots.

Today's opinion: indoor gardening has aesthetic challenges the outdoor gardener doesn't worry about. Of course, when I have a garden outside some day I'll probably revise this attitude. Note I said "aesthetic" challenges, not "keeping alive," which I assume is the big challenge of outdoor gardening. I used to edit a gardening column and there was a lot of moving plants indoors, wrapping pots in insulation so they don't freeze and other stuff.

Got my rebate back from Symantec. That's $50 of play money! And my computer is healthy!