Saturday, March 3
6:30 am
It is 0 °C, with a high forecast of +5 °C.
From the Environment Canada website:
Today Increasing cloudiness this morning. Clearing late this afternoon. Wind west 30 km/h gusting to 50 increasing to 50 gusting to 70 late this morning. High plus 5. UV index 3 or moderate.
Tonight Increasing cloudiness. Snow beginning late this evening. Snow mixed with rain late this evening. Snowfall amount 2 cm. Wind west 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming light after midnight. Low minus 3.
11:30 am Geocaching
I drove to Newell Lake near Brooks this morning to look for a fairly new cache. I was the 4th person to log a find for this cache. The snow added to the difficulty but I finally found it.
- GC39QXW - White Pelican Park
This was another date that needed a find. The next open date is now March 6.
I also picked up a Travel Bug that is in a race with about 20 other TBs from the Medicine Hat region. There is a complicated set of rules (see Madhatrace.blogspot.com ). There is more to this geocaching than meets the eye. I will be keeping my eye on Whale Tail this year.
10:00 PM Literature
I have finally finished reading this novel. I originally became interested in it because of a line in Marjorie Garber's, "The Use and Misuse of Literature" where she noted that this novel was the third most popular novel (behind the Bible and Lord of the Rings) read by men in the US.
I am not a particular fan of Stephen King but I found this novel to be relatively boring. The original novel was written in 1978 and the expanded revision in 1990. His newer novel "The Dome" is much better. I do not like to spend time rehashing books that I don't like. Better to simply move on to the next and hope for better. Having said that, I rarely find myself reading books that I don't like, but this was one. A bit surprising given how popular it was in the US, but it does reinforce the overall conclusion of the survey that Garber quotes that the US doesn't read much literature.