More Whining on a Dreary Windy Night

Since last night the wind has been gusting through Des Moines and tonight it is supposed to get down to 20 degrees. A dark, cloudy, and loudly windy day making for dreariness and selfpity, even though this is normal Nature, and one has to live through it and hope the sun will come out and spring will eventually be back to its normal springness in a few days.
A kid up at Iowa State who has been missing since he left a drinking party early Saturday morning was found in the ISU campus lake this afternoon. He may have just fallen into the lake but someone tried to use his credit card at a local convenience store, so the mystery of what happened to him is getting deep.
I have been in a mad for the last several days--about the War, the weather, politics, and some stuff that happened in my life going back several decades and that I cannot do a thing about now, because some of the people I am mad at have been gone for several years. So, I have wasted several hours of my life full of useless regrets. So, I watched my utube video of Piaf singing No, I Regret Nothing, and that is a good antidote to the pouts. Poor Piaf standing there singing about her life while she was dying and looking awful. Someone once asked me what the difference was between Sinatra and Dean Martin as singers. Frank could throw his whole soul into In the Wee Small Hours, and Dean when he wanted to could sing a song beautifully but never opened his whole heart to the audience. Just one of my opinions.
This is going to be all for tonight. I have to take an evening nap, and probably will have more to regale you dear readers with tomorrow night, because my fingers are right now slipping all over the keys. Di di mau!

More Whining Moderately

This may be a short entry tonight, because I slept late this morning, and did not do much today after I got up except some shopping for necessaries and googaws in the afternoon, which included a video of Seven Samurai I found for 2 bucks at a thrift store. So, one great bargain got added to my movie collection. I have never seen 7 S all the way through, and now have a project at hand of adding to my cultural education by watching the thing. There was a segment on Fox News of Iranian students in Tehran standing outside the Brit Embassy chanting Death to USA and Britain. Looks like 79 all over again. Interesting that crowds can get together in Iran without fear of carbombs going off in their midst. It should happen to them sometime, since they are sponsoring much of the carnage in Iraq.
The sun came out this p.m. and the drizzle went away, but March winds are still blowing on April 1. I should turn on the radio and listen to Drudge for a while before bedtime, but I find his radio show somewhat dull. The website is better. Sorry, Matt; that is my humble opinion.
Friends, this is going to be all for right now. For whatever reason I cannot manage my fingers tonight in a typing session. So, you all take care. Di di mau!