Data & Errata

The first Americans had seemingly mystical powers over life’s mundane challenges, like weather. With a little meditation and a whole lot of dance, it’s said the Indians could make it rain. Cool trick, if you’re dependent on crops and stuff. But we—aficionados of the modern age of grocery stores and restaurants—have found ourselves peering out the windows of the newsroom lately with an opposite goal in mind: how, oh how, to make the rain STOP?
1. Stop washing your car, pal.
2. Drive that sucker! Global warming should catch up with us any minute now.
3. Loop Karen Carpenter’s “Rainy Days and Mondays” until the wet stuff stops falling or you’re hospitalized with crippling depression, whichever comes first.
4. Clean your gutters. As soon as you do what’s needed doing for so long it’ll no longer be necessary. It’s Murphy’s Law, mate.
5. Build a fire, brew some tea, grab a book, and just go with it. You’re in the Wine Country, yo. It could be worse.