It’s 6:16 a.m., 53° and heading for 67°. Yesterday’s weather, two degrees warmer. Details are here.
In your “train in vain” news, the Chron writes that the new buzzword is “slower” high-speed rail.
You may be interested to learn, though, that there’s a limit to how slow we can go: Proposition 1A specifies that high-speed trains must be able to run between the Transbay Terminal and Los Angeles’ Union Station in less than 2 hours, 40 minutes.
And farewell, Joe Arroyo. An obituary in Billboard describes how the young Arroyo, sent to fetch water, stuck his head in the well and cheered for himself so that the noise bounced around him and made it sound like he was being cheered by an entire stadium. Not many kids make it from there to the stadium, but Arroyo sure did.