Got the PSVB (Post Summer Vacation Blues) cause:

Never fully got over the "Back to School" heebie jeebies I had as a kid.

That election in November is getting closer and so is the race and that means it will be that much harder to ignore the ever thickening toxic pollution pouring out of the corporate controlled media machine. 

I just got hooked on Stand-Up Paddling and soon it'll be too cold for that....

One man's vision of Heaven.

...and that also means it'll be more difficult to do my wood working outdoors--which is one of the reasons I started doing it in the first place.  Guess I'll have to get busy turning the garage into a better shop, but there's so much old junk in there, I may have no energy left after clearing it out.

FOUND THESE ONLINE WHILE SEARCHING FOR WORDS/EXPRESSIONS THAT SHOULD HAVE AN ENGLISH COUNTERPART OR ALREADY EXIST  BUT WERE NEW TO ME

 Kummerspeck (German): Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.

 Paper-belly: A person unable to drink liquor straight, or one who grimaces after drinking.

 Petrichor: The clean, pleasant smell that accompanies rain falling on dry ground. It’s from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964.

MilliHelen: The quantity of beauty required to launch just one ship.

Dysania: Having difficulty getting out of bed in the morning.

Karoshi (Japanese): Death from being overworked.

Bakku-shan (Japanese): The experience of seeing a woman who appears pretty from behind but not from the front.

Zeg (Georgian): The day after tomorrow. Surprised we don't have this in English. 

Crwth: An ancient Celtic musical instrument. Would come in handy when you’ve got no vowels in Words With Friends.

Glabella: The space between the eyebrows.

Tsktsks:  Not really obscure, but including  for  Words With Friends players. 

David Remnick on Springsteen in his long New Yorker profile:  “Springsteen rehearses deliberately, working out all the spontaneous-seeming moves and postures: the solemn lowered head and raised fist, the hoisted talismanic Fender, the between-songs patter, the look of exultation in a single spotlight that he will enact in front of an audience.”

Reminds me of the George Burns line:  “The secret of acting is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

Which made me realize that all this hagiography of The Boss wouldn’t be so distasteful  if Remnick (and others in thrall to the Church of Rock's messianic preacher) would simply replace the word Musician with  Actor or Rock Evangelist  or... Illusionist?

And why are people so impressed with the energy and stamina of Baby Boomer rock stars like Bruce and Mick and Sir Paul ….when there are working musicians (some in their 70’s and even 80’s) who are carrying their own equipment, driving long distances and/or riding buses, trains and subways, working multiple jobs and/or teaching to pay the rent and can play rings (multiple rings!) around any one of these “idols” who haven't carried their own stuff or had to lift a finger (for anything!) virtually their entire adult lives?!

And one guy who's been carrying his own gig bag, riding the rails and buttering his own bread is Adam Rafferty.  I posted something of his earlier, and here's another.  He's a finger-style player with a syncopated soul and if you like, there's lots more on YouTube as well as his own site. This arrangement is based on the Earth, Wind and Fire version of the Beatle's tune.