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I am still driving on the wrong side of the road.

I am out of practice. Like Hollywood?

Da hell. That's 3.

Hollywood has brick hands today.

Fan-effing-tastic outside.

One of my fave sippers. So good.

Sounds good. I have enjoyed some of their IPAs but not tried anything else that I can recall. Do they brew a proper high gravity stout?

Drinking a KBS Espresso Bourbon Barrel Aged Choco Coffee stout. Good stuff. Stout season is here!

We are on the right side of an impressive Omega block this week.

From Mount Holly AFD.. Nice. If you like fall weather, next week is the week for you. Following the cold frontal passage on Tuesday, several days of near to slightly below seasonable temperatures and mainly dry weather are expected. The large scale pattern will be dominated by deep upper level low pressure over New England, which will slowly drift south- southeast through the week. Strong ridging will be present over the Great Lakes and Midwest. Despite the close proximity of the upper low, it is unlikely to be a problem for us, with a lack of moisture and forcing over the mid-Atlantic preventing rainfall. However, the low will serve to keep away the anomalously warm air associated with ridging to our west, which at least for the time being will prevent any resurgence of summer-like air.

I am right with you. Been at it all day, and just took my third shower. Now relaxing with a beer.

Ravens will be without 4 starters on the D-line due to COVID, in addition to all the other injuries, against Detroit. They have good depth though, and Detroit is a pretty crappy team right now, so no excuses to not win this game, even on the road. Only sloppy play will prevent a win.

49 here this morning. A tad chilly in the house.

A classic omega block is setting up this week with a high amplitude ridge to the west and the northeast under an upper low that looks to close off. Models vary on exact location and strength as the week progresses. Overall looks like NE flow regime with cool temps from Wed onward, with a mixture of sunny and cloudy periods, and maybe some shower chances, but most of the precip appears to stay offshore. Latest GFS brings some decent showers through late Tuesday with a shortwave as the trough over the NE digs southward. Who knows how things evolve towards next weekend with any tropical influence from the Atlantic- doesn't look like much at this juncture.

Picked up a 4 pack of KBS Espresso yesterday. Really looking forward the the Utopias barrel-aged WWS, due out next month. Hopefully in a week or 2. I missed the initial release of it last year.

Should be. Everything is all overgrown lol. I will get to work tomorrow. Need to get the rest of the re-seeding done pretty quickly. Leaves will be coming down soon.

1.4" here yesterday, although it was over by the time I got home. 5.63" for the month, most of which fell while I was away.

54 here this morning. Nice to come home to weather that is similar to what I had gotten used to, although it looks like we creep back towards 80 early next week.

The pilot took a circuitous route to avoid the storms on the flight back from London yesterday- turned south just north of NYC and came straight south just off the Atlantic coast, then turned west south of SBY, then north to IAD. Was hard to get a focused shot but took this looking west from the southern NJ coast. Pretty decent towers in the distance. You can see the immediate coast in the cloud break near the bottom.

Shocked to wake up from across the big pond to see the Ravens won. Got my coffee. Time to watch some highlights.

Lookin' good for my return next Thursday. I have gotten used to actual early Fall weather.

69/53 here at 345 PM under full sun. Beautiful.

Maybe, but not sure how much difference it would make at this point. Hard to imagine them beating KC unless they just come out flat or turn the ball over 4 times. At this point a reasonable goal is probably to be a around 500 at the halfway point and hope to get some players back- and not lose more.

What once looked like a promising season for the Ravens continues to go down the toilet thanks to an incredible run of injuries. LG Tyre Philips is now on IR, and Stanley, who didn't look right against the Raiders coming off the broken ankle of last season, appears to be out for awhile. Lost all our RBs, and the OL is now a mess. Poor Lamar. Word is Chris Westry may be out with a serious knee injury, and he figured to be a big part of the secondary especially after the loss of Peters. Looks like the IR list will grow to 16 and maybe 17 if Stanley is out for an extended period.

Hung out in Manchester City Centre last night and went to this place. 20 taps and about half the beers were brewed there, including the two I drank, #9 and #11. Both the stout and the DIPA were outstanding. The IPA was one of the best NE Hazy styles I have ever had.