Indoor Rain?

I love rain. Today was the 2010 opening ceremony for the volunteer fire department. It usually takes hours and hours, with marching (that is actually fun) and listening to people who are erai, or "honored" talk and talk and talk, and giving awards to people who have been in the group for a long time, and people who are retiring, and new members, and on and on. I was expecting it to go from 7:30 until 1:00, but thankfully the rain forced us to cancel a good chunk of the "festivities". I was home before 11 am! I love rain.

From next week, though, I have to go to two hour practices every night at the local ski-hill cafeteria. I am waiting for someone to invent indoor rain.

Tonight I have to travel to the next city with the rest of the volunteers from my hamlet for a big drinking-fest complete with "companions" - women hired from the big city an hour away to come pour our drinks and laugh at our jokes.