Today all the rain that we didn't have during the last six months fell in the Puget Sound area within a three-hour period. Coincidentally, this was the same three hours that I was running errands with Frinklin and two dogs today. I'm like a homing beacon for shitty weather.

After visiting Comic Book Ink, Target, and Mud Bay, I drove carefully back through the rain to the monsoon in our neighborhood where we parked and sat waiting for the pounding rain to stop. Minutes passed as we continued to sit, waiting for a moment of even slightly lessened downpour so that we could pop the back door, drag the dogs out, and leap up the stairs to the safety of the house.

After ten minutes with no change we opted to take our chances, leaving the purchases to fend for themselves--no way was I standing outside a minute more than necessary. The dogs were drenched and our house has a fabulous eau d'wet dog smell that has permeated everything. My jeans spent 20 seconds outside and were soaked up to the knees.

The rain stopped about five minutes later and its sprinkled off and on the rest of the afternoon into the evening. We're leaving to see "Borat" in an hour. I won't need a clock to tell me when it's time to go, I'll know from the hurricane conditions outside.

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