It's raining, it's pouring...and we're not working

If you haven't heard, most of Northeast Texas is in the middle of a pretty awful drought. (And really, if you haven't heard, you should be reading more dallasnews.com.) So this afternoon, all of us here at TDMN websites are sitting in our cubes when we hear a rumble outside, and see the sky go dark. Then the big Texas sky lets loose with torrential rainfall that lasts all of 10 minutes. But of course, that does not stop us from dropping everything for 10 minutes to go to the big windows in the back and watch people run from the park across the street. Life is just that interesting here at TDMN, that the entire office is amused by a little water and some scrambling tourists.

I e-mail this little scenario to my fiance, who replies with this: "Well, we just had a 15 minute discussion about whether or not Napolean Dynamite was famous for his tether ball skills in the movie."

At least my distraction was environmentally friendly.