Why Three and a Half Inches of Rain is a Good Thing

Even though I am starting to whine about the rain that has gone on for over two days.

This is a picture of Lake Lanier, the source of water for the Atlanta area. (More pictures are here.) The lake has looked this bad for a couple of years; it just hasn't rained much in the Southeast.

So, I shouldn't complain about the dark skies and rain and gloomy days. I'm glad for the rain, and glad that we do have more sunshine here in the winter than people in places like Alaska do, and where Becca has to live in darkness, even at 9:00 in the MORNING! I think it would take lots of happy lights (and drugs maybe) for me to live in such darkness.

But I am hoping that the rain will turn to snow as a cold front goes through. At least snow is pretty.

Are the inmates running the asylum

over at the McCain campaign?

I'm guessing that the governor of Alaska is a nice enough woman. But a heartbeat away from the Presidency??? She has been governor for two years and before that she was the mayor of a small (pop. 7,000) town and before that she was a PTA president.

John McCain is 72 years old today, and if elected, will be the oldest president at the time of his election in our history. He has had a couple of bouts of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer. So to worry that he might not make it through four years is not wildly beyond imagination.

And then Sarah Palin takes over? She must give hope to PTA presidents everywhere...