We used to get this first 'real' cold front on or around the beginning of autumn. Now is about a month late.

I know you know this, and I'm likely missing the joke. But the 20,000 leagues the Nautilus travelled was in distance, actual distance nearly three times around the world. Before I knew what a league meant, I definiely thought it was depth.

I got a much less shitty job at the Johnson Space Center... (In their contractor run photo lab.)

Years ago, I got "Everything is not yet lost" in a fortune cookie. I quit my shitty job a week later.

What, no Americans there to drown them out?

OOOH! I might know the answer to the Bob Dylan question. He had bronchitus when he was young. On my way home, I heard an interview with Timothy Chalumet that mentioned this.

~~waves back~~

Yes. Do they use it naturally? Do they seem cool?
No, no they do not.