2019 - Day 274/91 - Tuesday...Tremulous...

Great Googley-Moogley! We recorded 0.07" of rain overnight. It was like a monsoon, except without the monsoon  part. The grass was actually damp this morning, and so were portions of the driveway. It was odd...the grass was more humid than the air for the first time in recent memory. And then that was it. No more, just the little bit as reported a few sentences back. Just to prove the point, here is an image of the new mail box and the newly resurfaced road. It only took them about three years to complete it. Okay, in reality, it took them about five months but it seemed like forever. Overall, the improvement is like a million times better than it was, but I still think they should have put another layer of gravel on it. But...for the immediate future, I can, in good conscience, get the car washed and it looks red for more than the afternoon. I can avoid dust from Austin to the Edge of Nowhere with some planning and thought. So there is that. We had an office meeting today (at Alamo Draft House) and saw the newly released movie JUDY. It was good, it made me anxious, it was sad, we all cried, and it was sad. What a life!

Tremulous -- Adjective. 1. characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors. 2. affected with timidity. timorous. 3. exceedingly sensitive, easily shaken or disordered.

"Today, two decades after his son's death, Holgado looks younger than his 73 years, but talks with the tremulous voice of an old man." Matthew Bremmer, The Guardian, September 28, 2017

Did You Know? Do you suspect that tremulous must be closely related to tremble? If so, there is no need to be tremulous in voicing your suspicion: Both those words derive from the Latin verb tremere, which means "to tremble." Some other English offspring of tremere are tremor, tremendous (originally, "able to excite trembling dread or awe"), temblor (another word for earthquake), and tremolo (a term that describes a vibrating and quavering musical effect, one form of which was particularly popular for electric guitars and organs in the 1970s).