I was eyeing rainboots at Berk’s and Spectrum-India the other night, but then I thought, would I really wear these, even if they have little skulls and crossbones on them?, and walked away.  What a dummy.  Now, with this crappy weather streak, I’m soaked from toes to bum for walking a measly 3 blocks downtown earlier this morning, and even borrowing a hairdryer from a (strangely prepared) co-worker hasn’t alleviated my misery.  Another colleague is trapped in flooded Warren and is snapping cell phone photos of cars and homes flooded up to their doors.  Bottom line: if you must be out and about today, a full-body poncho wouldn’t be a bad idea.  Or maybe an ark.

Another rain delay for the First Light party originally scheduled for tonight, Wednesday, at the Margaret M. Jacoby Observatory on the Knight Campus of CCRI. They will try again on June 17th.  Meanwhile Triangle Forest (with frontman and observatory director Professor Britton) are scheduled to play the Providence Art Festival this coming Saturday the 13th . . . weather permitting I suppose. Jeez Louise this rain thing is getting old. Click here to see what the night sky would look like this week if we could maybe actually ever see it. (More on TF in the latest Phoenix in a piece about the electronic music scene.)