Rain!

The first really big storm of the season is upon us. It's supposed to rain really hard overnight, then taper off well into tomorrow.

After so many years of drought, it's always a bit of relief to hear rain on the roof, even though we got so much rain last year that most of California is officially out of drought conditions. Like many of our storms last year, this one is a so-called Pineapple Express, which refers to a stream of wet air that blows quickly up from Hawaii to the Pacific Coast of North America. Usually, especially in the winter, the jet stream and ocean currents come from the Arctic, which is why the Pacific Ocean is so cold here, and why it's often cold when it rains. But a Pineapple Express is a tropical storm, and so it's both warmer and wetter than usual.

I'll take the warmer for sure, and for now I'll also take the wetter. As long as I can mostly be inside while it's happening.

Actual writing progress!

I fleshed out a scene in the Alistair-during-Inquisition story! I'd been putting it off because so much of the work was transcribing and re-working dialogue straight from the game, but it was nice to get it over with, and now I can move into the parts where I have more freedom. (Most of this story, I can imagine it actually happened in the background of the canonical game, since we never actually see what drunken Alistair gets up to during the time of Inquisition. But I did want to put him in the scene where Stroud first meets the Inquisitor, which necessitated following canon a little more closely.)

I've also written most of a Ladies Bingo story, which I have dreams of posting tomorrow. Wish me luck.