Cold, Wet & Loud

Rain has once again spread over the Spokane area and there is snow falling in the mountains today. A Winter Storm Warning is up for the I-90 corridor through the Idaho Panhandle. Down here in the bottom lands it is just a cold rain, as temperatures are just in the low to mid 40s. It looks like it will be this way through the rest of the day, and a few showers are going to be lingering into tomorrow. Tomorrow should be a bit milder as well, into the mid to upper 50s. For the weekend it will remain a bit on the cool side for the beginning of May, the best we will do is get to around 60 on Sunday, and the skies will be cloudy a good part of the time, with only periodic breaks in those clouds and sun shining through.

As I was leaving for church this morning I got a call from our secretary that there was this awful noise in the building, and it was worst in the sanctuary. She didn't know what it was, just that it was really LOUD! Be the time I got here it had stopped. I went to investigate, but just like with a car that makes a weird noise when you drive it, if the noise doesn't reoccur it is hard to figure out what might be causing it. Fortunately, or maybe unfortunately, the LOUD noise returned briefly about 15 minutes later. It was definitely coming out of the speakers in the church and fellowship hall, and it sounded like the static that you get when you change the channel on the TV away from the one that the cable TV signal comes in on...only LOUDER. I turned the volume down on all of the microphone channels, and muted them all, and since then the LOUD sound has not reared its ugly head again. We do have the programmer and technician from the multimedia company that we bought the system from here today (Media Joe), so he is going to be making a diagnosis and hopefully performing the necessary surgery to amputate these LOUD noises.

As I write this morning I am looking out my window and watching the landscaping company move dirt and gravel for the preschool playground. As mentioned, it is not a lovely day to be playing in the dirt, but they don't seem to mind, as long as they can take frequent cigarette breaks. The only ones who seem put out by today's activity are the marmots who have adopted the playground area as part of their domain.