The future is bright, the future is blue

There have been a lot of blue-sky days recently and even the homepage of my Gmail account has been sunny and bright.

For a few weeks previous, the Web page that is linked to Beijing weather reports had been dark and foreboding - just like the capital city itself.

It was kinda depressing. Not least when I would wake up and see the two chimneystacks from my apartment window spewing smoke that was almost immediately indistinguishable from the leaden clouds pregnant with particulate matter that obscured the heavens.