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cjsmith ([personal profile] cjsmith) wrote2006-07-30 06:54 pm

Rain

It's raining? In late July? I swear I had only one glass of wine!

[identity profile] excessor.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Where is it raining?

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
Southwest Sunnyvale, just for a few minutes.

[identity profile] tenacious-snail.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
it sprinkled here late this AM

Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Unexpected. Odd. (Duchess-kitty, is this comforting? The person giving you a shot in 45 minutes is not hallucinating due to wine.)

I wish I truly understood weather. To me, it's all indistinguishable from magic.

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] tenacious-snail.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I kinda liked "indistinguishable form magic" myself

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
It does have a certain rightness to it, in a way my non-poet soul cannot possibly actually articulate! :-)

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] wooddragon.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
So do you know that you can find pet sitters who give shots? Nitro had a wonderful, wonderful pet sitter when I traveled, who came twice a day to pill him and inject him.

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
My new vet's office has three people who do this for clients! Some will even house-sit if you want 'em to, while others just do the injection on the way to/from work. I am so happy I could just collapse in a little pool of post-stress goo.

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] hitchhiker.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
rained here too. must be sympathetic magic.

Re: Once more, with spelling-fu

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, so if I have a delicious lunch you'll get something tasty to eat too? I like this idea!

[identity profile] klwalton.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
No rain here, but high humidity, and I note that there was rain in southern California this morning.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Weather is weird incomprehensible stuff.

[identity profile] mactavish.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Rain? A few clouds, here.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Just a coupla minutes. I went upstairs to look out the windows, just to be sure that's what the sound was.

[identity profile] jcgbigler.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
It must be really odd to live someplace where rain in July is unusual enough to be worthy of an incredulous LJ entry. Here in Boston, we've had 13.4" of rain since June 1, which is 7.5" over the "normal" amount for this particular 2-month period.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
It was definitely odd for this East Coast girl to get used to. The first year I was here I was on a volunteer committee planning a big outdoors event. I raised the obvious question of what to do in case of rain. They all just looked at me. They didn't even laugh, they just looked.

The thing that gets me in a subtler way, though, is the lack of winter. Somewhere in my subconscious I still think I'm twenty-three, because obviously a full year has not yet passed since I moved here.

[identity profile] dawnd.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well, maybe that explains why I'm getting younger (http://dawnd.livejournal.com/242172.html)! I've only lived 3/4 of the years since arriving in 1977. :^D

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Oh excellent! I too am a bit younger by that measure than I am "supposed" to be. ;-)

[identity profile] quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
It isn't wine. See, when unstable moist air rises and condenses, it forms small cloud droplets on any aerosol nuclei it can find. As those cloud droplets get larger and larger from additional condensation, eventually they get heavy enough to where the balance between the pressure gradient force and gravity shifts to gravity's favor, and they fall down.

;-)

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
So the wine falls out of the sky? Excellent!

[identity profile] eeyore-grrl.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
i missed it! :( i was watching pirates 2.

[identity profile] cjsmith.livejournal.com 2006-07-31 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh well! I still remember, vividly, the hail we had in June or so the first year I was here. I thought "oh, hail" and the whole rest of the office was going berserk.