Too bad I won’t be around for most of this…

Tonight
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain showers. Lows in the mid 30s.
Tuesday
A chance of rain showers in the morning. Cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Little or no snow accumulation. Morning highs in the upper 30s… Chance of precipitation 50 percent.
Tuesday Night
Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the mid 20s.
Wednesday
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s.
Wednesday Night
Mostly cloudy with a 50 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the upper 20s.
Thanksgiving Day
Cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Highs in the mid 30s.
Thursday Night and Friday
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs in the lower 30s.
Friday Night and Saturday
Partly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of snow showers. Lows in the lower 20s. Highs in the lower 30s.

In Ann Arbor, meanwhile…

Wednesday
Cloudy with snow likely. Minor accumulations possible. Highs 32 to 36… Chance of snow 60 percent.
Wednesday Night
Cloudy with snow likely. Minor accumulations possible. Lows 21 to 25. Chance of snow 60 percent.
Thanksgiving Day
Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Highs 29 to 33. Chance of snow 40 percent.
Thursday Night
Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. Lows 18 to 22. Chance of snow 40 percent.
Friday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs 28 to 32. Chance of snow 30 percent.
Friday Night
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Lows 17 to 21. Chance of snow 30 percent.
Saturday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of snow showers. Highs 30 to 34. Chance of snow 30 percent.

I can’t wait. It’s about bloody time it snowed. (I can’t believe a week ago I was walking around DC in just a light jacket, or less…)
[forecasts from wunderground.com]

Orientation campus tours make me wish I could wear earplugs at work.

Thomas L Friedman actually has something interesting to say, for once.

Apparently, at least according to Google Maps, the bridge we all know and love as the Swinburne Bridge is not, in fact, Swinburne St. Mapquest agrees, although not as prettily.

Got my FAFSA results. Apparently the DoE thinks I have $5000 hidden somewhere up my ass. I get financial aid to go to community college. Where the fuck am I supposed to get $5,000+?

As noted previously, went for a lo-o-o-o-ong bike ride today. It ended up being nearly 29 miles, in about 4 hours (including the stop at the library outside S Lyon). (For the Ann Arborfolk: Pontiac -> Eight Mile -> Spencer -> 7 Mile -> Nollar (anyone know why 7-Mile was closed west of Nollar?) -> 6 Mile -> Whitmore Lake -> Warren -> Gleaner Hall -> Pontiac.)

and then, of course, i missed my bus and had to bike the two miles to work, too.

Good news! Pittsburgh is no longer the worst city in the US to be single!

(Greetings from the Salem-South Lyon District Library, just over 11 miles from the house. Nice day for a bike ride.)

Reflexion 2,
originally uploaded by libcat.

Shelley over at Burningbird has an interesting post on the internal conflict caused by the onset of Hurricane Dennis, which hit land on the Gulf today—it could be so devastating to people and property on the coast, but damn they need the water inland.

The best part of the post, however just might be the dragonfly.

I’m going to try to take up the challenge by KK to post a picture a day. Here’s the first.

Lower Town Panorama

Looking west from the parking lot where the Lower Town development will (eventually) stand. On the left is Kellogg Eye Center of UM Health System; on the right is Nielsen’s Flowers, in what was once a church (more recently a Hallmark store). 2 April 2005, 725a.

Are you fucking kidding me?

As the licence plate on one car downtown today read, “ITSREAL”. In a miniaturised preview of the Art Fair Horror to come in two weeks, roughly sixteen blocks of downtown were shut down today for the Rolling Sculture Car Show.

(As far as I can tell, the rest of this looks like shit in Explorer. But then, you should be using a real browser, anyway. . . .)

A *real* REO Speedwagon.
originally uploaded by libcat.

Remember REO Speedwagon? There was one of those there.

The Goodyear (B)LIMP, over Ann Arbor for the car show,
originally uploaded by libcat.

It was such a huge event, even the (b)limp was there.

An antique fire truck exhibited at Rolling Sculpture,
originally uploaded by libcat.

There was an antique firetruck, but I wanted the dog sitting in it.

A (stuffed) dalmatian placed in the antique fire truck.,
originally uploaded by libcat.

Then someone decided theirs should be a fire basset!

Fire basset!,
originally uploaded by libcat.

These’uns’re for Eric:

• Ann Arbor/Clean Cities exhibit:
  
  
  Ann Arbor’s GEM (General Electric Motor) electric car, at the Clean Cities Initiative exhibit at Rolling Sculpture,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  
• Volkswagen camperBUS!
  
  
  A VW Vanagon, with the camper-top up.,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  
  
  
  The VW Vanagon Camper-top from the front.,
  originally uploaded by libcat.
  

  Probably should’ve turned the flash off for those. . .

On my way to work after, there was an odd cloud out behind the public library, and confused drivers and dead streetlights galore.

Fifth and William towards the end of the show,
originally uploaded by libcat.