"A man who has never made a man angry is a failure in life." - Christopher Morley

The Nor-easter hit during the night. It's now mid-afternoon and the day has been nothing but rain - 2.25" since midnight - and wind - steady in the 25-30 mph range with gusts to near 40 mph. My lunch got postponed until tomorrow and may get called off again if the wind hasn't died down. At this point my dinner is still on unless they call in the next hour or so to cancel. The good news: they're coming to pick me up so I don't have to drive in this crazy weather.
On the TV they're saying the biggest problems come when the ground gets saturated and the wind blows this hard; trees topple.
Today I'm thankful there are no trees on the east (windward) side of this house.

That said, I. Am. Bored. Being housebound is not my preference.

I got up about 3:00 and saw that Understanding Your Bible was still listed as "suppressed", that is, not available for publication or even modification. This despite getting an email from Amazon yesterday that they were satisfied I held the copyright.
I called, they guy could see it had been cleared, and couldn't explain why it was still suppressed. He promised to find out.
An hour later it was cleared for review and early this afternoon I got an email that my files had been approved.
So I sent in yet another revision, this one a bunch of changes that dear friend Willie found. When I rekeyed it I made a bunch of the kinds of mistakes that clear spell check because they're real words, just not the words yew wont. Now I'm waiting for that version to be approved. Assuming it is I'll do a very careful check of the thing online and then....DONE!
Oh my.

I don't want a repeat of last Sunday's sub-par performance so I'm preaching this sermon in my head constantly throughout the day. I don't know that it will help but it can't hurt.

I'm fascinated by all the wonderful houses here, some that I sure want to see inside. Like this one that I pass on most of my running routes. Look at the second story windows! At first I could not figure out how a second story could be so short as to have windows that small unless the first floor had 4' ceilings. But Bill explained it to me, and he should know. He's an architect at church who has an office almost across the street from this house.

Those windows are pretty near the floor of the second story. Note the more normal windows on the gable end. Those windows aren't for seeing out (unless you want to look at the ground), they're for light and ventilation.

I'm guessing that addition in the back corner is a kitchen. I've seen several houses where (I'm told) that's what they did. A century ago kitchens were really small so building an addition was a common solution.

You can find almost any architectural style imaginable here, including 20th century tasteless. Some are 200+ years old and tiny cottages, some are big Greek revival, there's craftsman, federalist.....
Just down Montauk Hwy. - the street the church is on - is Tuttle Mower Shop. I'm told that building is over 100 years old and the mower shop is in back. The front is still set up as the blacksmith shop it was a century ago with a forge, bellows...the whole bit. I may have to stop by. Pics if I do!

It's now 4:30 and the wind is picking up with gusts to 45 mph. It's also swung around a bit and is blowing right at the front door which keeps making noises like somebody is coming in the house. I've jumped about three times so far.

I'm showered and ready for my hosts to pick me up for dinner. I'm going to do some reading (I'll tell you about my current read in tomorrow's post) and try not to think about trees coming down.