Another aspect of my inexplicable personal makeup is a deep and abiding fondness for foul weather (gee, is there a pattern here?)
Perhaps it comes from my Louisiana childhood where, even as a little kid, I would track hurricanes and hope they wound up in my town (umm, OK, there is a pattern here; this is like a form of self-therapy).
In any event, the San Francisco Bay area is about to get hit with a huge October storm, which is really unusual; it's all thanks to a typhoon from the far east. So you can expect me to be more cheerful and friendly than normal, since inclement weather does a lot of good things for me. And the weak market isn't hurting either.