Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Third Shift Workers Day
The Weather Bureau salutes Third Shift Workers Day, for the folks who work graveyard shift. Hadn't heard of this Day before.
From the linked items I couldn't tell for sure which day is the Official Day. They range from May 7 to May 13. This is fitting, since graveyard shift blurs the boundaries of dates.
I've always been happiest and steadiest on graveyard shift. I worked graveyard at motels in the '70s, then made my own graveyard shift at KU in the '80s, and again when working from home in the last 20 years. On graveyard I'm a willing worker, ready to do what's needed and more. On 8-5 I'm reluctant and unreliable, to put it mildly. Useless and absent to put it precisely.
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Speaking of the Weather Bureau, here's a fine piece of prose in today's Forecast Discussion.
The death throes of this formerly stately and persistent upper low...by now smack dab over the forecast area for Thursday night and through Friday...will probably promote an extended period of
gradually decreasing showers.
This is art. To an unfocused observer, the persistent showery pattern is just annoying. I would never have called it stately. The word gives me a new perspective on the radar picture.
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Here's my belated graphic salute to the graveyard shift.
Labels: coot-proofing, TMI
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