It's always a funny thing in California in that it's good when it rains despite the fact that everyone hates when it rains. Take this winter. We haven't had that much rain and there's been all this worry about their not being enough water for our reservoirs and Tahoe's economy and dear God, it's the beginning of the global warming end! But on the other hand, we don't think there's many of you who've been thinking to themselves "gosh darnit, I really miss a good rainstorm. Why can't it rain more?"

Well, the good news for those of you who like rain is that we're about to get pummelled by a bunch of storms, starting possibly tonight. In fact, February is looking like it's going to be a pretty wet month. While a lot of you are probably thinking "oh great," this is considered great news for people who worry about such things. In fact, the Chron quotes a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Monterey who says, "it could be a fabulous February. This could give us all the rain we need." Great. So to you, Mr. Steve Anderson, here's hoping you get caught in a rain storm somewhere out there and for your umbrella to be ripped to shreds by the twenty mile per hour winds and so you have nothing to do but get soaked so much you catch a nasty cold. Wait, that's not very nice.

According to the weather folks, we're going to hit by storm after storm for the next five days. The worst of it is supposed to hit on Thursday. We would give you the weatheralogical conditions that are causing all that but, really, does anyone care?

As an addendum, we'd also like say this: Prince's halftime show? Best. Halftime. Show. Ever.