Library heat

Over the past week or so, we’ve had several rainstorms coming across the Silicon Valley. One of them accounted for me stepping up to my ankles last Friday in a huge puddle in the parking lot of the Korean café where I often go to write. My feet squished half the day.

It’s the very rare day like that that makes the two-sided fireplace (gas) in the Sunnyvale Public Library make sense.

Or it would if they hadn’t reorganized the area to hold book shelves instead of armchairs. It’s really odd—you have to edge your way around the new books on display to get close to the fire.

I suppose it’s the thought…