Plane notes

(Which, given the fact I was returning to Austin, over the plains of West Texas, could be plains notes.)

“Look,” I suggested, “I’m the rainmaker!”

I’ve got a series of notes I jotted down while winging inward to Austin, that expectant rush of hitting home with a big grin on my face. As my luggage, the winter war wagon, dropped down onto the belt, and as I fetched it upright, snapping the rolling handle into place, I noticed a few drops of water on the buckles.

Rain!

“We were all the rage in Paris, San Antonio to El Paso, and every honky-tonk and dance hall in between,
Hardly had to cross the state line, Texas was our big time….”
(from the Derailers)

Back-to-back with CM (Crystal Method, not Cory Morrow)

“This transmission is coming to you
You got it.”
(“High Roller” from CM’s Vegas)

Okay, so the music was back-to-back with Marcus Aurelius, since it was either quoting a former Roman Emperor (AD 121-180), or discussing tackle options as outlined in the winter edition of a fishing magazine, I found Marcus Aurelius a more universal approach to a problem. Or solution. In fact, I’m thinking of using one of these quotes, from a different source, as part of the weekly missive – next week’s audio file.

But from the Loeb Classical Library edition?

Book VIII, #15:
“Remember that, as it is monstrous to be surprised at a fig-tree bearing figs, so also is it to be surprised at the Universe bearing its own particular crop. Likewise it is monstrous for a physician or steersman to be surprised that a patient has fever or that a contrary wind has sprung up.”