Rain, Rain Go Away

Actually, at the moment it is not raining. Still, it was raining very heavily when I was coming in to work this morning. I had to stop at the gas station, bank, and pharmacy on my way in, and the credit card machines were not very reliable. Plus, several stop lights were out. And the gaurds at the front gate only had one lane open for incoming cars. I don't see how that could be because of the rain, but that's what they were doing. The radar maps actually show the areas of rain swirlling around Houston. It looks like a tropical storm, but it's not. Very wierd.

There is a tropical wave east of the Windward Islands. This is what I do all summer. I come in to work, clear out my Inbox, and then go the the National Hurricane Center website and look at all the satellite pictures. I get excited when there's a tropical wave that the forecaster thinks may develop into an organized system. I run all the loops looking for circulation. I try to predict whether it will get in to the gulf or not.

I watched Runaway Bride on TBS last night. I had never seen it before. I think that's one of those movies that I always assumed I'd see one day, so I never made an effort to see it. And I did see it one day - yesterday. It prevented me from going and getting groceries and other things we need. After the movie was over, I tried to read, but I got sleepy after about one paragraph. It was about 11PM. I think I'm still on the camping sleep schedule, except that I don't get up at dawn. Of course, there wasn't much of a dawn this morning, what with the rain. It just went from dark to murky.