We’re counting the days until the sun returns and the weather warms up and spring arrives. This morning we woke up to tornado watches. In the late morning the sun remembered its job and by the afternoon there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. We got into the low 60s, too, and it was a perfect day to be outside.
So we ventured over to the local exercise path, a nice two-lane asphalt topped trail that crosses two little streams on its 1.5 miles. It is named as a bike path, but the walkers and joggers and strollers have taken over. Occasionally you’ll see a bike, but anyone doing more than soft pedaling is going to be on the adjacent road. I ran up and back down the path, and then did it again, for six miles.
On the second return trip I saw this:
Which isn’t terribly sharp, perhaps, because I was panting, but we’re going to just consider this foliage as another sign of a great spring is in the air.
Things to read … because the Internet is one enormous scavenger hunt …
Speaking of in the air, 110 million Target customers and … some more stores you haven’t even heard about yet. More well-known U.S. retailers victims of cyber attacks – sources:
Target Corp and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants that have yet to be publicly disclosed.
Smaller breaches on at least three other well-known U.S. retailers took place and were conducted using similar techniques as the one on Target, according to the people familiar with the attacks. Those breaches have yet to come to light. Also, similar breaches may have occurred earlier last year.
The sources said that they involved retailers with outlets in malls, but declined to elaborate.
So it is back to cash, then.
Closer to home, there was a Lego show in Birmingham. Check out the photos.
We’ll just let the headline do the talking here: Huntsville woman reports intruder hiding behind Christmas tree.
That cold snap earlier this week was so severe that in the northern part of the state so many pipes burst that all of the water storage tanks were drained, and people are having to conserve water. First world problems, huh?
Ominous: ‘For Every One Job Added, Nearly 5 People Left the Workforce’:
Today’s jobs report underscores a deeper problem facing our economy: a large and growing block of people who are chronically jobless and completely outside the workforce. In December, the economy added only 74,000 jobs – not nearly enough to keep up with population growth –and 347,000 left the workforce.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, an Alabama Republican, says everything but “This is the new economy.” He’s not saying that because it doesn’t get votes, but people are seeing it. They’re realizing it. That’s in the air, too.
