They’re spreading a great deal of salt on the roads and I’m low on wiper fluid and budgeting it, cleaning the windshield just a little and only when absolutely necessary, waiting for melting ice to run down the glass and using that to clean off more salt, saving fluid for the ride home when the roads could be really hairy who knows with the result that the world is seen through a thick grey film this morning.

A streetcar sparks and I think of Poland now.