band between rainbows known as Alexander’s band who first described it
What is a double rainbow? A double rainbow is a wonderful sight where you get two spectacular natural displays for the price of one.
Surprisingly, this phenomenon is actually relatively common, especially at times when the sun is low in the sky such as in the early morning or late afternoon. The second rainbow is fainter and more ‘pastel’ in tone than the primary rainbow because more light escapes from two reflections compared to one.
The secondary rainbow is also dispersed over a wider area of the sky. It is nearly twice as wide as the primary bow.
A key feature of double rainbows is that the colour sequence in the second rainbow is reversed, so instead of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet (ROYGBIV), the colours appear in VIBGYOR order.
The dark band between the two rainbows is known as Alexander’s band, after Alexander of Aphrodisias who first described it in 200AD.
Who knew they were common, cool, reversed and it took until 200AD to see one.
No enthusiasm stuck in a rut, routine, meh No motivation
Meh.
It is a real word.
A word in the dictionary/
A word expressing a lack of interest or enthusiasm.
As an adjective, uninspiring or unexceptional.
According to wikipedia, meh’s popularity surged after its use on the American animated television series The Simpsons. It was first used in the 1994 episode “Sideshow Bob Roberts”, when a librarian reacts to Lisa’s surprise that voting records are not classified.
Meh was added to the Collins Dictionary of the English Language in 2008.
I call it stuck.
Stuck in a rut.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes stuck in a rut as dysthymia — the mild, chronic cousin of depression, the symptoms of which are low energy, low mood, loss of interest, and general anhedonia (loss of pleasure).
Let’s talk rut diagnosing, beginning with a checklist. The more items you find yourself checking off, the more likely that you are stuck.
10 – Day to day, you don’t look forward to much (other than maybe sleeping or just getting through whatever you’re doing).
9 – You’d like to get your creative juices flowing, but it seems someone left an empty juice bottle in the fridge.
8 – Even though you keeping checking things off your to do list, it doesn’t feel like you are getting much done.
7 – Your days all blur together, and it’s not weird to look up blinking and ask, “Is this Tuesday or Thursday?”
6 – By the time you get “free time” you are too tired to do something interesting with it or are just plain unmotivated.
5 – If you answered “How are you?” genuinely, you’d say something like, “Meh.”
4 – You fantasize about getting away (and not just away on vacation).
3 – You’d like to add something new to your life, but you’re sure that you’ll never have enough time and/or energy for it.
2 – You’re getting sick of hearing yourself complain about feeling stressed, tired, and unfulfilled.
1 – … and the Number One rut symptom: Even though you think you’d be happier if you made a change, it’s more comforting to stay the same and mope about it.
driving rain driving nothing delicious to it dark that absorbs light
“There’s really something rather delicious about walking in the rain,” says Willie Keith walking in the rain in New York City in Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny
“You wouldn’t think so if you had do it,” says his girlfriend.
It started raining here in Georgia sometime in December or November.
In the last three months Georgia has had over 25 inches of rain.
50 inches of rain in a year is normal for Georgia.
The current 14 day outlook from today shows only 4 days without rain in the forecast.
That 50 inches per year average is more than Michigan’s 33 inches of rain but Michigan has 52 inches of snow.
Looking out at the rain is down right depressing.
Driving in it.
Driving in the rain.
Driving in the driving rain.
Operating a motor vehicle at speeds that should scare me over rain slicked pavement that not only takes away my ability to stop my vehicle but through some trick of physics, also absorbs the light right out of the air so I can’t see why I might need to stop my vehicle.
This is stupid.
This is scary.
It is scary that even though I know its stupid, I do it anyway.
It is stupid that I am not more scared.
Why do I do this?
Like the people in their accidents will say, “I never think it will happen to me.”
day long drip drip drip clouds to roof, through the ceiling buckets by my door
Plumber once told me that he had to remember three things.
Payday was friday.
Don’t chew your fingernails.
Water flows downhill.
Keep those three things in mind and you can succeed as a plumber.
I have been reminded of water flowing downhill for the last week or more.
Been raining so long the roof of my building is full.
Leaks, previously unknown, are making their presence known all around me.
Drip Drip Drip.
I work in the online world.
I am surrounded by cutting edge technology.
And buckets.
I pretend that the building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Wright’s buildings were famous for bad roofs.
One home owner wrote about his FLW designed house, “The roof design itself had some interesting design issues that almost guaranteed water penetration.”
On the other hand, another FLW home owner wrote about their leaky roof, “that is what happens when you leave a work of art out in the rain.”
