What comes after Zeta?

What comes after Zeta?

Thursday October 29th 2020

Now that we are deep into the Greek alphabet in terms of tropical storms/hurricanes, I realized that I had no idea what came after epsilon.  In a typical display of idleness, I did nothing until I started hearing about Hurricane Zeta.  Clearly there could be more storms to come and what would they be called?  After zeta come eta, theta and iota.  If we need more than that, I’ll look it up again.  From various math and science courses, most of these Greek letters are familiar.  As for the order, is that not the purpose of the interwebs?

The day started calmly enough with showers and laundry.  Then lunch outdoors at a Thai restaurant revealed that the weather was starting to change.  The signs at the doorway were trying to take flight.  We quickly walked back to the boat... A little cleaning and housekeeping occupied us while the wind became more fierce and the rain started.  Probably it is better to be busy than to be staring at the output from the wind instrument.  That’s typically how I spend any bad weather intervals.  It does seem mad even to me, but once that display is up, I’m mesmerized or is that paralyzed with fear...

Once the rain had ended, Mike decided to take a walk to the local liquor store.  Much to his dismay, it did NOT sell beer or wine!  Thus, he was forced to walk out to the Food Lion for the second time in two days.  (Mike prefers to call it the Lion King but I thought most people would find that pretty confusing).  There is usually no problem with walking to the grocery store, it’s the walk back that’s the killer.  Today was no exception.  I have a feeling there will be another trip or two to the ‘Food Lion King’ before we leave Portsmouth.  

Gloria

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Portsmouth Town Dock and ferry terminal

Reflections - An abstract crop of the photo above

Reflections - (telephoto shot)

Stainless steel fence along the Elizabeth River boardwalk, Portsmouth

The American flag and moon - a reminder that we sent off our ballots today and you should vote too ... unless you planned to vote for the incumbent malignant shit-funnel in which case don't bother!