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I went shopping for a toilet seat on Sunday afternoon. I rather expected the choice to be easy and limited, but was surprised by the range of nearly indistinguishable choices. $5, $10, and $25: is the $25 one really five times better than the $5? Eventually i made a choice, and the address of the Comfort Seat company caught my attention: 3249 Moody Parkway, Moody, Alabama 35004

I've often been on small highways in the southeast as a child and teen, wondering as i passed the houses, "What do these folks do for a living?" This address recalled those speculations to mind, and i could imagine someone pulling out of their driveway lined with flowerbeds striped with plantings of pink and white petunias and heading off to the toilet seat factory in the hazy summer dawn. "It's gonna be a scorcher." I easily imagine a quite pride in the work. I know i'm romanticizing to some extent, but i think of the rural Carolina folks i knew, the parents of classmates, folks at church, and i don't think it's a stretch.

Google Maps showed me Moody AL: it's a bit up valley from Birmingham, AL, in the tail-end folds of the Appalachians. I put the Google Peg Person on the road where the address landed me. Google's cameras came through in summer. The street address algorithm wasn't quite right so i had a wander a bit to find the Jones Stephens Corporation buildings. I spent some time being disappointed. There was a couple buildings with a shared driveway and "A-1" signage that didn't look like much. I had a hard time imagining that being the location of a nationwide distributor. Across the street was a storage unit facility. My romantic speculations turned sour, as i imagined some family scion moved off to the big city, who had decided to outsource all the manufacturing and for some reason kept the address -- but it was simply a mail drop. But a little further down the road was the type place i'd imagined: the great big grassy lawn between the state highway and the nondescript factory, concrete drive with a familiar curve, brick signage with a circle of "landscaping" around it. Simple pride.

I am not complaining about the weather.... much

Today Rain. Highs in the upper 50s. South winds 20 to 30 mph becoming southwest 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.

OK, i can do this. Got the big bright light in the office.

Tonight Showers likely. Lows in the upper 40s. South winds 10 to 20 mph.

Thursday Breezy...rain. Highs in the mid 50s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph increasing to south 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.

Oh yay, hope the commute stays sane.

Thursday Night Showers. Lows in the mid 40s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph.

i'm still not going to feel like trudging out to do laundry, am i?

Friday Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers. Highs in the upper 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of showers 40 percent.

Yay! Clearing for the weekend, yes?

Friday Night Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the upper 40s.

Wait, what's the difference between "chance of rain" and "chance of showers"?

Saturday Rain likely. Highs in the upper 50s.

Er, and what's the difference between "chance" and "likely"? Just trying to create variety in the forecast?

Saturday Night Mostly cloudy. A chance of rain. Lows in the mid 40s.

What, no "probability of rain?" Get out your Roget's!

Sunday and Sunday Night Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s. Lows in the mid 40s.

No rain!!

Monday and Monday Night Mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 60s. Lows in the upper 40s.
Tuesday Partly cloudy. Highs in the lower 60s.

Partly vs Mostly?Hmph. No rain at least.