This weekend I experienced something I had thought I escaped in Texas: steady, drumming, soaking, mundane, constant downpour.
Sure, there were occasional breaks of sunlight, but for the most part it rained hard and long all weekend. On the bright side, I wasn't in southern Indiana or western Wisconsin, so I wasn't fearing for my life.
However, I am still in limbo for driving until my license clears, so my weekend was largely apartment-constrained.
Early Saturday morning Sharon and her mother came by, and I was very happy to see her again. However, due to time constraints they left soon, taking with them my younger brothers, who had been my main source of entertainment and forced labor. Left alone, transportationless, and rained in, I resorted to making good use of AV weekend, and Eating Pizza.
However, during one brief break in the rain, I headed across the river (yes, into that part of town, on foot and obtained 60 feet of speaker wire from Radio Shack. I was happy to discover that my Crown speakers and 200 watt amp worked quite well, and I can't put them over 25% for fear of destroying the building. For now, I drive them with a MP3 CD/DVD player, but soon I shall hook them directly to my PC. In time, I hope to get my keypad from home and connect them in to the Linux-based MP3 player I built several years ago.
I'm looking forward to getting to a good bookstore, to obtain more reading material soon (perhaps Arthur C. Clark?) but that shall be delayed until I can drive again.
My question for you, dear reader, is if you were able to get out this weekend, or were as well bounded by weather and circumstance.
Posted by Moore at June 9, 2008 01:38 PM