Is it gone -- or isn't it?

There's no question I feel better, but a bit of fever lingers. I wish my recovery had a more definite feel to it, but perhaps soon it will. Hope so.

Still Fluing, still dreaming.

It's hard to tell if I'm getting over this flu, which has been dragging on -- but I might be.

H1N1.

Well, I've reached a milestone I had hoped to avoid: I've got H1N1 flu. So far, it doesn't seem as horrible or intense as I had expected , but my only exposure to it was on a crowded bus full of students -- so it seems as contagious as advertised.

Waxing Moon.

Astrologically, I'm a "Moonchild", or Cancer. Whether I feel the influence of the Moon's phases more than others I can't say -- but let's say I think I do. Particularly the period around the Full Moon, and to a lesser extent, the invisible -- or New Moon. My energies of all sorts seem to bubble up most during Full Moon, and though for many months of the year the Moon is difficult to see in my cloudy climate, when it is visible I try to catch a glimpse. At the moment the Moon is waxing, or becoming fuller, and is just over 1/3 the way to fullness.

New Moon, Strong Rains.

We're about 24 hours from the new Moon, and the National Weather Service tells me a Pacific low-pressure system will slide ashore Friday afternoon and stall out as it encounters the Cascades, leading to abundant rain totals over the next 2 days. Cool.

Blustery Fall Winds.

Sometimes, common descriptions of natural events become so entwined with the events themselves I stop experiencing them until they actually occur, and I become aware of their reality again. Such it has been with Fall winds -- at least until recently.

Change Of Season.

By the 22nd of September, Northern Hemisphereians can be counted to have passed the autumnal equinox, and thus have moved into Fall. In my location, the temperature will not reflect that passage, at least for a few more days.
The cooler seasons present their own challenges: a greater use of energy for heat, most notably, and the added expense of that. Other necessities, like medicines and food, cannot be neglected -- but I economize wherever I can easily do so.