I woke up this morning to it still being dark outside. This was a good sign. We’ve had a few cloudy days in a row now, and I feel like each one resets my internal chemistry just a little bit more. I ate my shredded wheat, and milk. Bundled up my computer, unset the alarm and stepped outside. It was raining. Not pretend raining. We’ve had a few of those days these summer. The blistering sun has let a few drops through now and again to make sure we don’t feel like we’ve been relocated to a nuclear wasteland, but nothing real until today. I stopped by my car and picked up an umbrella. I made sure to get the cheap one. I often take the nice looking one with me, but it doesn’t actually open. That negates the usefulness of an umbrella for me.
I opened my umbrella and headed for the bus stop, half expecting the rain to stop on the way and the sun to start punching holes in the uniformly gray sky. I walked through the small copse of trees adjacent to our subdivision, and listened to the pops as large drops collecting on leaves let gravity pull them down, down down onto my umbrella. Pop, pop, pop. The rain eating up sound. Feeling truly alone. I reached the main street adjacent to our house. Cars rushed by. Too fast. All with their lights on. Making me feel like everyone was coming home from work rather than going. I stood at the bus stop with two adults. The teenagers had gotten rides to school with their parents I guess. As I sat there I watched oil and detergent streaming off the road, winding their way slowly down the hill into south boggy creek. Feeling relieved that we had finally been allowed this reprieve from our punishing summer. Almost hearing the plants sighing and whispering along with me, “Finally…”.

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Comments

mcoker (http://www.phat32.com)

2006-09-07T20:58:47.000Z

like the new editor stuff, too

Tim (http://www.loadedguntheory.com/blog/director/listblog/tim.html)

2006-09-07T21:07:43.000Z

Sumbitch spammers were out of control. I did one keyword delete statement that knocked out almost 5000 comments yesterday (to put that in perspective there are currently 373 legitimate comments across all LGT blogs). The spammers were slowing down the website, because they were firing a couple hundred comments within seconds of each other. My upload bandwidth is restricted by time warner, so each time they did that the return traffic slowed everything down to a crawl. But what really pisses me off is that now I have a captcha. And it’s horribly inaccessible. I’m planning on adding the audible captchas also when I get the time, but I just hate making things inaccessible. Captcha keyword “bugger”.

Kate (http://katiekatworld.blogspot.com)

2006-09-09T17:02:03.000Z

I put up with the swampiness of this town because of the frequent rain. I would go nuts without it. Glad you got some.