Castle Magus

Today, a rainfall record was broken at Sea-Tac airport, and this was at around 11:30am PST. It's 2:00pm now, and it is still raining, and they are saying it is going to continue raining on through the weekend as well (and it's just Monday).

Note that this is after another record was broken back in August, only this time for the driest weather.

Nice. Though, as the article says, it's likely that SOPA isn't completely dead yet, and PIPA is also still lurking over in the Senate as well.

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In news completely unrelated to the above, it is completely white outside this morning, with weather reports showing a 70% chance of more white stuff falling here starting around noon or so. As such, I just sent an email to some of the guys at work, letting them know that I'm going to take a wait-and-see approach as to whether or not I come in today. If they all show up and let me know that they made it, I'll try to come on in as well. Otherwise, I'm staying here.

I would have said that I'll believe it when I see it, but it was already snowing yesterday evening as I was walking home from work. Not enough to stick since there's nothing out there this morning, and it's not doing anything right now that I can tell, but it was still snowing then.

Not enough to white the ground or anything, but still. Pretty neat.

(Dear snow, please don't mess up my travel plans next month. Thanks.)

Glad I brought my umbrella with me today.

( Weather alert for east Seattle area )

In other words, it looks like the northwest is finally catching up with the rest of the country.

And now it's already 60°F (outside, that is, as it's already considerably hotter inside the office), and it's not even 9:00am yet.

*heavy, weary sigh*

This blows (much unlike what the wind is supposedly going to do later this week, sadly).

I took the bus for the mile and a half or so it takes to get to work this morning, because it is putting it down out there right now. (For once... oh wait, it supposedly rains here all the time, what am I thinking?) If it's still doing this in the evening, I'll probably take the bus back as well.

On the way in, there were some guys in the back of the bus, and one of them was talking about trying to do a speedrun on Eternal Darkness. I thought that was kind of an amusing conversation on which to eavesdrop.

It looks like the weather might be shaping up to be the opposite of what it was last year, in that this time the snow will apparently be hitting in North Carolina rather than Washington. Well, as long as it doesn't mess with my flights or adversely affect getting to or from the airport, it can snow all it wants, as far as I'm concerned.

Radio's calling for record highs again for the next three or four days. *weary sigh*

The heat finally got to me today.

I've been getting by on around 3-4 hours of sleep per night for most of this week, due to not being able to sleep well because of the heat. Today must have been the breaking point. I know I was still awake by at least 5:30 to 6:00 this morning, and when my alarm went off at 7:30am, seemingly only a minute or two after that, I must have just rolled over and shut it off, without even remembering doing so. The next thing I recall is waking up about an hour ago (around 2:30pm).

Last night was the worst, given that it didn't even get below 80 degrees until around 4:00am, according to weather.com, and it was much hotter than that inside my condo, even with the bedroom sealed off from the rest of the condo, the window open, and three fans going. When the lows at night are what the highs during the day are supposed to be, something is really screwed up. Supposedly, though, it's "only" going to be in the 80s during the day tomorrow, which is a bit hotter than normal and which is still too hot for me, personally, but that's worlds better than what it has been earlier in the week, and down in the 60s tonight, so that should be nice finally.

Obviously, I didn't go in to work today due to grievously oversleeping. If I had managed to actually get up and go in I probably would have been no more productive than a zombie vegetable, but the air conditioning would have been nice. On the other hand, I went to see Harry Potter last night at the 8:00pm showing, partially because I hadn't seen it yet, and partially because I wanted to be in an air conditioned theater for 3 hours or so. The movie was good, but while the AC was also really nice, I think it may have simply made it seem that much worse in my condo when I finally got home around 11:00pm and immediately went to bed.

"Oh you won't need AC," said our real estate guy when we asked him about it when I moved out here. "It almost never gets above 80 degrees here in the summer." Ha. Ha ha. Right. It has gotten up in the 90s-100s at some point every summer for at least the past three summers here. Lately, I've been putting frozen water bottles behind the fans, hoping it would blow some marginally cooler air around, but it hardly seems to help at all, annoyingly.