Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"I planted a whole case of Bud and never saw so much as one Anheuser bush." -- Big_Bad_Bald_Bastart, Alicublog, comments [thanks to realinterrobang for quoting this earlier]

Happy vernal equinox -- (atronomical) Spring starts at 12:12 EDT / 16:12 UTC. I note that my phone beeped an alarm about a winter storm watch about twenty four hours ahead of that, with "5 inches or more" of wet snow expected late tonight through Wednesday evening, and it was 61 °F / 16 °C / 289 K when that alert came in. Bit of a roller-coaster start to the season, here.

I've resumed listening to Music from 100 Years Ago^[*] after catching up on history podcasts for a while. I'm up to the start of 2011 now, working my way through the archives ... And wow, it was several episodes ago, but "Accentuate the Positive" is still stuck n my head. Except for a while this morning when a passing siren ripped me out of an immediately-forgotten dream, and my brain kept trying to merge "Lilli Marleen" with "Molly Malone".

My Lilli of the lamplight
Singing cockles and mussels, alive, alive-o

[*] Recordings, mostly music, from the first half of the XXieme siècle^[**] with a fair amount that really is 100+ years old. Looks like he starts each year with a show entirely of recordings from exactly one hundred years earlier.

[**] After I wrote that, I realized it looked funny, and it took me a moment to realize I'd switched to French. Dunno why, since "20th Century" is a construction my fingers have more muscle-memory for, but ... today it came out in French. Brains are weird.