Last week the Northeast got all the weather and this week it’s the Northwest’s turn. Prepare for heavy rains and flooding in lower elevations and ice and snow higher up, all pushed around by high winds. But don’t worry, Northwest people, the weather in Miami for the Super Bowl will be just fine.
The CES 2020 show flooded our attention spans last week with interesting new products and updates to a slew of existing smart home systems. And some silly stuff, as usual, like the Charmin RollBot toilet paper delivery drone.
Welcome back, physically and maybe mentally, from the Thanksgiving break. If you’re reading this in a snowed-in airport, good luck to you. Since the holiday was so late in November, we have only three and a half weeks before Christmas.
We’re sliding into the holidays now since next week is Thanksgiving, with Christmas just four weeks later. The week before Thanksgiving can be relaxed as things slow down or crammed full to get ahead for the coming days off work.
Does your Monday feel better since you started it an hour later? Did the earlier daylight help perk you up? Earlier light is always better, at least according to Daylight Savings Time fans. We can’t wait to cash in our saved daylight in February, which always needs to be brightened up.
It’s the countdown to Halloween that will come knocking on your door this Thursday. Weather forecast: frightful in some places, with snow in the Midwest over to the Great Lakes and rain up the entire eastern coast. And, of course, wildfires in California.
We’re starting the third full week of fall, so of course, blizzards. As a distraction, all the NBA teams are in training camp, so fans of every team are dreaming of a huge trophy and a victory parade around the start of summer in 2020.
Happy Labor Day to readers in the U.S. and Canada, and happy Monday to everyone else.
Lots of grown-up glum faces as football fans have a second week of preseason games to help lower their expectations. Smaller faces slump glum for another reason: schools all over the country are now in session or counting down the days.
Now that all the NFL teams have played a preseason game, there are two fan camps. One, those of the winning teams, feel good about the season. The other, fans of losing teams, say their guys didn’t play their starters and are hiding high-powered offenses during the preseason.