Hello, rain!

The rainy season has definitely started; I drove home in the rain yesterday. And jilara asked me to sing ''Millennium's Dawn'' last night -- the irony of

Oh I should have been watching the earthrise
From a dome on the bright lunar plain
But I took a wrong turn at the '60s
now I'm driving back home in the rain

was not lost on me. But the sky is a soft grey, the air is clean, and the mist mutes the sounds of traffic a little. I like the rain, for the most part.