News, weather, penguins, ice. So many topics to write about. Maybe ice - of course we all know that alpine glaciers are in rapid retreat, pretty soon Glacier National Park may well be "Former Glacier" National Park. And Polar Bears will likely exist primarily in zoos (unless the alternate theory of the ice age is correct, and the melting Arctic Sea will cause the next great wave of continental glaciation in the Northern Hemisphere). If that occurs, there will be plenty of polar bears - although they may need to modify their diet: they mainly eat nice fat seals - I hope that Mall-fed Americans don't look too similar...
But there is also everything else that's going on - the Furegson inspired protests where people are chaining themselves to BART Cars at stations, and then creating a human chain (accompanied by a metal chain) out to a bench in the station, preventing the train from leaving (and taking shoppers to San Francisco), and the "not so crowded" Black Friday shopping experience, explained away by a combination of "Dark Thursday" shoppers and massive Internet shopping: but maybe the predictions are wrong and this isn't going to be a stellar Christmas season for retailers - I know that I don't plan to buy a whole shitload of stuff. It is now, of course, after Thanksgiving, so Christmas advertising is in full swing. Fitbit: that might be a fun tool - I certainly enjoyed my silly little computer pedometer. Maybe my lack of getting out and about could be nicely remedied by a little computer encouragement (I am such a geek). 
I am sorry that today's entry is rather wandering - I was listening to the original beat poem that inspired Kerouac to re-write "on the road" into more stream of consciousness form, and I thought "holy shit, that's like the crap that I write", so who knows, maybe I will write something that is likely to be read. But will I? I think that will require some flowery descriptions - the books sat two deep on the bowing shelves, packed almost tight enough to stand erect (as in a library), but books on the margins of the shelf leaned at oblique angles, spines of many colors, I wonder what more is there for me to discover there. The English channel, North Sea, Irish Sea, North Atlantic - maybe these are places that I need to explore. I loved Edinburgh, I wanted to visit Inverses (even more, now that I know that's where Karen Gillan is from), and I know that I can take the train from one to the other - although once I get into the Highlands, if I don't have a vehicle I may well be walking everywhere. I wonder what walking around the Highlands would be like - it's sounds pretty cool, altough possibly damp. I wonder if they like massage there in the Highlands, maybe I could trade room and board and directions for massages. Or maybe I'm just blathering insanely, as I am ought. Well, for now, I think it may be "post time", and tomorrow will be another day.