For the last couple days, heavy rains have been hitting parts of the United States, and I expected that we would get them were I live yesterday. The weather prediction gave us a 60% chance for thunderstorms in the afternoon. By one in the afternoon, it looked like it was coming; clouds were forming, and a few light drops of rain started to drop. An hour later, nothing happened. A few hours later, the clouds were gone. No storms. Makes me feel stupid for telling a cashier when I was out that I thought we were about to get some powerful storms.
For my entertainment reading, I started A Scanner Darkly. Once I finish it, I will be curious to see how it was done in a movie; I am understanding why, reading it, that it was done as a pseudo-animated production. The story itself is about the disconnect drugs can have on society; both on the people who burn themselves out with them, and the cops who go undercover to bust the big drug producers. Of course, it is a sci-fi story, so the drugs are powerful, and the cops use weird devices to go undercover. But what if you are an undercover cop, your identity hid from everyone (even the person you report in to), and you are told to spy on yourself? That’s as far as I’ve gotten into it.
