Rain & Lightning (Fast)

Two different things here but thematically linked. One, it's raining. After our great last-minute hike on Saturday it started raining overnight. We knew the rain was coming. And it's still here & likely to continue through Wednesday. We knew that, too. It's another "atmospheric river" storm. Fortunately it's not as big of a river as some we've had in the past, which caused hazardous flooding. The rain's falling gently enough on this one that the ground should be able to absorb it as it comes. That's great because we really need the rain. We need it to refill our reservoirs and ground water aquifers after years of drought. One storm alone, even an atmospheric river storm, won't replenish what years of drought have depleted; but it's an important step toward recovery.

So, lightning... Atmospheric lightning is rare out here. The SF Bay Area (indeed most of coastal California) doesn't get those kind of storms. But I think of lightning when I use my new work computer— the one I unboxed Thursday night. It is lightning fast. The thing is, I haven't even thrown heavy workloads at it yet. It's crazy fast at little things I wouldn't have believed the 4-year-old computer it replaced was slow at. Simple little things I do all the time, like open new browser tabs and run command line commands, are noticeably faster. It's like I've been walking with a limp for years and suddenly I'm jogging again. Man, this makes doing work almost fun. 🤣