Pretty much a non eventful day here in the swamp. Did my usual writing and coding duties. Rained pretty much the whole dam day. Now while that may appear on the surface to be a bad thing, rain in South Florida, for most natives, it’s a pretty damn good thing. It keeps it cooler. Besides, sunny days just get damn depressing after a while. I remember this friend I had in Texas who moved for Florida, and upon returning to Texas in the winter he shouted “Cool! Dead grass.” Well you see, you just don’t get to see dead grass in Florida. Unless in chinch bugs. And day after day of sunshine will just drive you freeking nuts.

I got my groceries delivered today. Big event. It’s almost like living in NY. You just cruse to the Publix web site and pick what you want and they deliver it. Hell, who needs to leave the house. All that sunshine is just bad for you anyway, and as we discovered in the last paragraph, depressing.

Went to the Tuesday night open mic at the Chocolate Moose in Davie last night. Some pretty talented folks there. Some young woman that sounded remarkably like Joan Baez. She did a cover, an original and a song that she said “Her father wrote.” The last one, the song her father wrote, was pretty good. I believe her name was Hope. There were a number of folks that were pretty impressive, I can’t remember their names though. I’m working on trying to put together a group of songwriters in the same vein as Jack Hardy has done in NY for years.

Here’s a couple of shots from the beach today. Most of them didn’t turn out, my Nikon CoolPix 3100 is pretty cool, but it doesn’t do well in low light.