Rainy days and Mondays...

It seems that yet again mother nature has decided that my area won't get the traditional fall and instead we'll be jumping right from summer into winter.  Nah, that's not entirely accurate, but it probably isn't that far from the truth either as just a few weeks ago (last weekend really) we had mild but still nice and sunny temps and this week is starting with a wet and cooler day with temps predicted to drop into the 40's this evening.  I'll likely need to flip my HVAC unit into heating mode tonite for the first time of the season, though as I joked with a co-worker, there are enough heat producing devices in my home (TV's, DVR's, computers, and the like) that my home naturally stays a little warm inside.  Free heat is good, though I always curse that fact in the summer months when I'm paying big electricity bills while the AC unit runs constantly and the temp never seems to drop below a mildly comfortable range.

The rain that is falling is at least falling at a slower pace than the end of the last week when the remnants of a tropical storm smacked the east coast with a lot more rain than most areas could handle.  We've needed the rain, but we needed it more like what we are getting this week than what we got last week.  Slower and lesser is a good thing with rain fall.  Let the ground have a chance to soak up the rain as it falls rather than getting flooded immediately and just running off to fill the creeks, rivers, ponds and lakes with more rain than they can hold.

In reality, I'm happy that we're getting to cooler weather.  I've joked before that I can always get warm, but getting cool is not an easy task.  I could strip down to the point of being obscene and still be hot and sweaty (not a pretty picture), but getting warm is as simple as piling on more clothing or wrapping up in a blanket (or tossing another blanket on my bed).  Hopefully the problems that had plagued my HVAC system are mostly gone now and for this winter, for the first time in many years, I won't have my furnance producing heat that just pours into the area beneath my home.  If so, then I expect that my bills for LP gas will be better than in prior years and be more tolerable, though I'll still have to keep a good eye on the sneaky bastages that provide that fuel to me as they tend to try to play fast and loose with their billing.

Oh well, Monday is nearly over (in terms of work days) and it hasn't been quite as bad as I might have expected.  Hopefully the trip home after work won't be too badly compounded by the drivers that can't handle driving on wet pavement.  If so then today won't have been too bad at all.