2019 - Day 2/363 - Wednesday...Fustian...

I half-way expected this to be the beginning of the end. It started raining last night, and it has not quit, not even briefly, since. Since yesterday's journal entry, we have recorded 2.57" of rain, and it is still raining. It is supposed to rain all night long, and quit about mid-day on Thursday. They are threatening that a little bit of sunshine may peek through just about the time I get home tomorrow night. Everything out here is standing in water. EVERYTHING! We will be remembering this later on in the summer when we are in the middle of another drought. We had earlier said that these rains would be good for the wild flowers in the spring, but I am no longer certain of that. They may all have been washed out by this time. Traffic was not terrible on the way in or on the way home, in spite of all the rain and the crazy drivers. This photo is of a teeny-tinee wreck on the way in to the office this morning. No real challenges at all. On New Year's Day, there was a wreck on SH-130 (the one where the speed limit is 85 MPH) involving 32 vehicles of all shapes and sizes (including a Sheriff's SUV). No one seriously injured. I don't know how that is possible, but it was. Anyway, we shall see what tomorrow brings.

The trending story of the day is BEVO v. UGA. Not a real even match there, but interesting and kind of entertaining!

Fustian - Noun: 1: A strong cotton and linen fabric 2: High-flown or affected writing or speech (see above); broadly: anything high-flown or affected in style. "He had a way of stripping period fustian from Wagner operas and Mahler symphonies..." -- Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph (Lindon), January 6, 2016

Did You Know? Fustian has been used in English to denote a kind of cloth since the 13th century, but it didn't acquire its "high-flownDoctor Faustus when Wagner says, :Let thy left eye be diametarily [sic] fixed upon my right heel, with quasi vestigiis nostris insistere," and the clown replies, "God forgive me, he speaks Dutch fustian." English picked it up from Anglo-French, which adopted it from Medieval Latin, but its original roots are a subject of some dispute.
" sense until at least three centuries later. One of the earliest uses of the "pretentious writing or speech" sense occurs in Christopher Marlowe's play