Staring at the Screen

So here I am staring at the screen, avoiding various electron-related tasks and pondering. All I can talk about these days is what has happened at my son's school (the short version: fascist fucks run amok) and the weather. It's been raining biblically now for over a month. And not just demure misty days with quaint and appealing sunshowers, decorated sweetly with rainbows, but pouring fucking drenching monsoon weather. Periodically we get strips of blue sky and a dash of sun on our faces to raise our hopes, falsely, and then the next band of clouds rolls in dripping with the Pacific Ocean and it's on again. The ground in Northern California where we live is solid adobe clay. You could build houses out of this stuff, and live quite nicely until it starts to rain and then doesn't stop. It quickly becomes saturated and then the water starts rolling out onto streets and over lawns. In hilly areas, it slides and takes out homes and roads. Weather refugees like myself are aghast and are seriously asking ourselves if it was really worth leaving everything and everyone for the sake of the sun when the sun is being obliterated relentlessly by grey, grey, grey cloud cover. Thankfully, the computers still work and the TVs and the Game Boys and thank you universe for the electron.