I really had to put some thought in to what day of the week this was. I settled on Monday, and that seems to be a unanimous opinion, and so I guess I guessed correctly. Another kind of busy day, mostly worked remotely, isn't it interesting how much we can do with nothing but a cell phone and a pretty good battery? I did not get all the intended errands completed today, but there is always tomorrow, and that will just have to be good enough. I do indeed have a pretty busy schedule already for the last day of this year, and I think the whole thing has gone by pretty quickly. Oh yeah, same window, different view (sort of). It's really the same view, just a different perspective. And that big white blob is really a crescent moon. Not what I saw with my eyeballs, but what the phone camera chose to interpret!Lugubrious -- Adjective. 1. mournful, especially exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful. 2. dismal. "Most of the interviewees talk in the lugubrious tones of the defeated. We all know the story ends badly." Bing West, New York Post, September 19, 2017
Did You Know? "It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery," wrote Publilius Syrus in the 1st century BCE. Perhaps this explains why lugubrious is so woeful-it is all alone. Sure, we can dress up lugubrious with suffixes to form lugubriously or lugubriousness, but the word remains essentially an only child-the sole surviving English offspring of its Latin ancestors. This wasn't always the case, though. Lugubrious once had a linguistic living relative in luctual, an adjective meaning "sad" or "sorrowful." Like lugubrious, luctual traced ultimately to the Latin verb lugere, meaning "to mourn." Luctual, however, faded into obsolence long ago, leaving lugubrious to carry on the family's mourngul mission all alone.
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