Month: July 2004

Watching a little bit of I Love the 90s on VH1, I’m amazed they were able to round up so many people who could remember as far back as…1999.

Chances are, anyone who doesn’t remember 1999 is one of three things: senile, on drugs, or still so young that they either don’t care about VH1 or won’t remember watching it when they finally do grow up.

I Love the 80s was pretty much crap, too, but at least it operated the way nostalgia is supposed to — from a distance.

In winter, skies this dark would mean it was going to snow for two, maybe three weeks without letting up. In summer, it just means a little bit of rain.

Or at least it does here. Winter and summer in State College both last a little too long — meaning spring and autumn are more like after-thoughts than anything else — but we’re relatively protected from a lot of bad weather, I guess because we’re in a valley. (I might know for certain why if I’d ever gotten those jobs for which I interviewed at AccuWeather.) We definitely haven’t been having the tornado-like storms (or actual tornadoes) they’ve apparently been having in neighboring states.

We’ve had rain. Schizophrenic skies, rumbling thunder, and lots of rain.