Events of 2010:Friday 1st January 2010Well, nothing's happened yet. This is just some text for the new 'this year' tags to point to. I saw Sherlock Holmes. I guess that might count as news? It's not too bad. Quite a lot of fun. The only problem was that every time someone said his name, I thought for a brief moment they were sarcastically pointing out that something was obvious. Friday 22nd January 2010This was the view from the balcony of my third-floor apartment in Riverside, California two days ago. It's been raining like this all week, with brief respite to grab the children from the streets before the torrential downpour begins anew. This would count as SNAFU in Ireland, but over here, people go crazy. I remember a few years ago when they had the equivalent of three days of constant drizzle and some houses in Santa Clarita fell over.Granted, as you can see, now it's a bit worse than drizzle, but it's still just rain. Nevertheless, a state of emergency has been declared in Los Angeles County, Orange County, San Bernardino County, Siskiyou County and my own Riverside County. At least over here, weather means something. It's hot and dry for nine cloudless months and then - BAM! - torrential downpour for a week (so far). In Ireland, the five-day forecast for any month can look like variety, but all these phrases say essentially the same thing: 'sunny spells'; 'some showers'; 'partly cloudy'; 'changeable'; and my personal favourite, 'becoming milder'.
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