I'm getting ready to leave for the two hour drive to the ...

I'm getting ready to leave for the two hour drive to the Houston airport, to take a plane for WriterCon in MN. And we're having a thunderstorm. It's absolutely pelting down rain. The drought could have at least lasted until late this afternoon.

I'm not taking my laptop, because if something happened to it, I'd be screwed. (I had a friend get hers broken when someone knocked it off the table in the security line.) So I'll be offline until next week.