Frazz by Jef Mallett for February 09, 2022

Some of us do – June is starting to get too hot, and it rains too much. February is nice (mostly).

People in June 2020 surely did look back wistfully on February.

SOME people prefer mid-winter.

Somewhere, someone is having the best day of their life right now.

You might if you’re an avid skier, or you really love Valentine’s Day.

Depends on how many 95degree plus days there were before you started looking back.

Somehow, Folks, I don’t think this streak is about the weather. Even perpetual eight year olds understand seasons.

Every day is a new normal, and even the bad days will become the ‘good’ old days. Eventually. Set a reminder in your phone for twenty years from now, and have a little smirk as you think back on it. “… some day this will be twenty years ago.”

Speak for yourself, Mr. Winter Hater. I look wistfully at February every stupid sweaty gross humid awful day of summer!

June is just the beginning of the dreaded hot hot hot months to come for me.

We sure do in Phoenix.

It’s always darkest just before it goes pitch black.

Here in Wisconsin, in February we’re wistfully looking back at June.

“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary, and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re after 35 is against the natural order of things.” —Douglas Adams

For some people this is the first day of their life…for some people it is the last. The future is when people who are little kids now, will say to future little kids, “When I was your age,….”

I do, Caulfield; I hate summer!

in 2020, people certainly looked back wistfully on Feb, before COVID changed the world

“The good old days” never were good. For instance, things were as a rule more expensive—the prices were lower, but those were different dollars.

And sometimes things were plain more expensive. Extreme example: the original Motorola Portable Cell Phone (1973) cost $4000, which would be $26,000 in today’s money. It also weighed just under two pounds.

The virus won’t be going away the way AIDS is till with us too.

Now is always the future’s “good ol’ days.” And people do sometimes look wistfully back at August in September.

“Those Were the Days” was a favorite song among the college girls in 1968. We knew that where we were, who we were, was bittersweet.

Australians wistfully look back on February…

Frank’s first law: things can always get worse.

Frank’s second law: things can always get better.

Where rye was the normal crop, wheat is now better suited, but some time in the near future farmers need to switch to yet another crop better suited for the climate that is becoming the norm. Like sorghum, which apparently is called panic, too.