The leading edge of a storm system moved in and made for a grand sunset this evening. The thin altocumulus was corrugated and shifted through the blue end of the spectrum. In one section the likeness of a jelly fish disrupted the flow, dangling wispy tentacles through the troposphere in search of airborne prey.
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Zeke and Tink. Don't ask me why Tink decided to lay down on Zeke's Chuckit tennis ball launcher. Everyone knows cats can't throw worth beans. I suspects she thinks its an ice cream scoop.
For you Perl putterers they have published Exegesis 5 over at Perl.com, which outlines the changes to regular expressions coming in Perl 6. Regex's, for those who have shyfully avoided them, are a great and wonderful thing albeit strange and scary when you first encounter them.
Which of course pulls out all of the value pairs (key=val) in a multiline variable, removes any leading and trailing whitespace (ignoring trailing comments, seems that trailing space between val and comments isn't stripped), and pops each of them into a hash. Yummy.
Rain, sweet rain!
Within a day the lawn has gone from dormant and dying to bountiful and blooming. Some of the blossoms are quite lovely. Others are, well, you know how I feel about dandelions. The air is fresh, temperatures near perfect, and the cool, moist night air puts one to sleep like a baby.
This morning's walk was down Great Brook Road, the scenic dirt road photographed below. A car passed by and within seconds there was a fox standing in the middle of the road a few hundred feet ahead. Zeke was a hundred feet ahead and was told to stop. So there we were, staring at one another across the short span of road, nobody moving, not much to say. Finally the fox headed back into the woods, surely a busy day in store. We continued our walk assuring Zeke that he really didn't need to chase it down for us.
