Prognosticated instability

Rain is coming, often heavy, lasting through mid-day tomorrow. So, we've decided not to go to the camp this weekend. Most of the work there is outdoor work that's not easily done in the rain. Instead of having our first sauna this evening, we'll probably go to Sears and buy a stove.

The long-range forecast from the NWS says, "Will be inserting a slight chance of thunder into the grids with the prognosticated instability. "

Today marks 30 years since the U.S. left Vietnam. As you might expect, the Vietnamese government is regarding this as an independence day. In this country, we are still sorting through what the war meant to us and to southeast Asia. To those who served, we can, at least, say, "Welcome home."

Again with the confluence of holidays. Today is Holy Saturday for the eastern churches and Walpurgis Night, a springtime rendition of Halloween.

Today also marks the day in 1993 when CERN, the Swiss nuclear research institute that sparked the development of the WorldWide Web, announced that the web would be free. The Internet predates the WorldWide Web by at least a couple of decades, depending on how you define it. The Internet is big, but not limitless.