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[Warning…more weather talk!!]

So, today began with some blue skies in between low clouds. I drove south to Sunnyvale this afternoon, and found the mountains off to the east to be snow capped…an sight that definitely causes a double-take here. I made it home in time for the rain to return (again).

Of course, this is becoming a broken record…some might say I’ve taken the record and stuck it through a shredder. So, I figure that I needed a new hook to keep me interesting. This drove me to think of my iPod soundtrack for our Great Flood. iTunes gave me some sweet memories:

• Rain
• Mandolin Rain
• Listen to the Rhythm of the Falling Rain
• Singing in the Rain
• Its Raining Again
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
• Rainy Days and Mondays

And the LEAST appropriate iTunes match: Brooke Shields’ Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. Oh my. Some light listening.

So, here are some classic rain pictures from my St. Michaels, Maryland series.

Well, once again, the “Alaskan storm” that is hugging the California coast sent some odd snowy, icy stuff down from the heavens. This time, it hailed just long enough to dust our cars, make the sidewalks and roads slick, and accent our potted plants. Of course, it melted by the time that we left to go to dinner, but it still made for some unusual San Francisco photos.

The hail or sleet or icy snow was accompanied by a spectacular lightning display. Rolling thunder just isn’t commonplace here, so the storm really took us back to warm summer nights in Virginia and Michigan.

Not that it is remotely warm here. Its frickin’ COLD, Mr. Bigglesworth.

Speaking of cold…Elena wrote from Russia. She is diligent. Here is an excerpt.

“Today our organization suits a holiday for all women. Invited singers and actors. Now while actors act I have a free timeand decided to go to the Internet-cafe to write to you the letter. Then we shall congratulate all women of our company. We yesterday bought many flowers and cards.”

[An addendum. The papers and news outlets have thrown around lots of words to describe our wintery precipitation. The latest I saw was “snow pellets”, which seems like a made up catch-all meaning “white frozen sh**”! I’m sticking with hail, because its the only one you can use in cringe-worthy puns like “When the hail is this blog going to end…”]

At 3:15 this morning, Jeff and I both awoke to an odd sound–hail hitting the windows, hail tapping the skylights. Yes, for a few minutes this morning, we got hail in San Francisco.

The locusts are next.

Well, I awoke this morning in a warm sweat, but with my 101 degree fever from yesterday gone. Against my better half’s advice, I dragged myself into work for a while to handle a few calls and to generally mope around and get sympathy. I made it home in time to avoid the rain, which seems to have returned with a vengeance.

So, with the fireplace ablaze, and Jeff on his way home to care for me, I decided to search for happy memories of sunny days. I found two shots from my 2 day trip to Chicago this past fall. These are shots of the Crown Fountain in Millennium Park. These were designed by Jaume Plensa, and consist of two 50-foot glass block towers with LED images of Chicago residents.

This is GOOD wet.

The New York Times reported today that Cingular spent $500 million advertising its absorption of AT&T Wireless a little over a year ago. Then SBC acquired AT&T and is spending $1 billion to tell us about it. Now, as the new AT&T prepares to purchase Bell South (its partner in Cingular), the company has announced that it will change Cingular’s name to AT&T Wireless. (Although, I’m sure it will be with the cute lowercase at&t.) Quick, order your phones now so that you can still get the cute little orange guy from Cingular.

Honestly, all I know is that with a portion of that $1.5B, they could have put a freakin’ cell tower in that &*@#@!& dead spot on I-280 through San Francisco!!!

[OK, Blogger’s spell checker thinks that “freakin'” should be “foreskin”. That made me chuckle.]