The fog

When I woke up this morning the weather was clear, but when I sat down drinking tea and starting a new book, fog started creeping from the sea. I got engrossed in the book - it's Adam Roberts' new book The Snow, where it starts snowing one day and snows for several years until the whole world is covered in three miles of snow - and at some point I look up and see nothing but white. Truly eery: couldn't see the building opposite us. I moved into closer the window where I could see at least some of the rooftops closer to us. I've been reading the book whole day and I feel unreal, the whole world has disappeared - in the book it's snow, in reality it's fog...

Spent the evening with Laura and Clay playing The Settlers of The Stone Age and eating cupcakes (tradition, by now) - I love the game, I think it's probably the best in Settlers series so far. Pretty even game this time - Dragon almost won, but Laura got better of us again (although I have to say I would have probably won given another round, no honest!)...

It doesn't matter who you're socialising with, Canadians, Americans - but at some point talk will always move to US politics. I feel - and I'm not alone - that something irriversible has happened and world will never be the same. Walking back home in the fog in the humid cold air, looking at the stars and the moon made me really appreciate what I have now.