Exciting update to the eye doctor, bike riding, and a new video you will all loath, but I like it.

Another 20 miles yesterday to 1,366 miles from home. There are a lot of Middle of Nowhere's in northwest Ontario. This is near Martin, Ontario. Yeah.

Went to the eye doc and when they learned I am a meteorologist the comments started in about how we forecast so much snow and didn't get it. I said, well, we actually did get it. Oh. So how come it's hard to forecast here? It's because of the mountains, right? I just told them it's because, while the atmospheric conditions like temperature, dewpoint temperature, wind direction and speed in three dimensions of space, pressure, etc, change in the atmosphere in a continuous spectrum, the models do not calculate forecasts that way but do so in discrete omega levels which are albeit smaller than they used to so that now our 5 day forecasts are as good as the 3 day ones used to be, will never really get perfect. Sort of the Butterfly Effect if you will or, more accurately, chaotic mathematics.

They stopped asking. I hope I said all that right. But the doctor went over into the optometrists in Walmart and brought back people who wanted to see a real meteorologist. The Science Zoo. I am the Gorilla. I told them most meteorologists are very introverted, shy, nocturnal creatures who feed mostly on leaves and the occasional tv dinner, while I am considered rather the peacock of the agency, sort of the Liberace or flamboyant playboy, if you will.

I have included the video below for your viewing pleasure. It's one of my favorite groups called "Bat for Lashes". This song is "What's a Girl to Do?" I like the bike riders. They really are very good. I can't explain the connection of the lyrics to the visuals. But the bike rider on the far left does remind me of this little Mexican guy who just joined up in kung fu. Cute little feller.