Wow

I just noticed something.

Despite conventional wisdom, it doesn't rain very much in Seattle. It rains often, but not for very long. Further, it packs a lot of rain into a small temporal window of complete and total raininess.

The distinction to be made there is that, while it rains 300 days a year, it's not a rainy place. Seattle isn't defined by rain. It's one of the more gorgeous places I've ever seen and mother nature only ruins it long enough to keep the lush vegetation oozing moisture.

Example: I accidentally left an empty half-liter bottle outside work yesterday. Its mouth is about an inch wide. It rained for probably an hour last night. When I came to work today, the bottle was almost totally full.

That's a lot of rain, I thought.

Then I looked up and realized that the bottle was sitting under a tree with a really dense canopy of leaves.

That's a lot of rain, I thought.

These are the things I think about when I'm consciously trying to ignore other things.