I remember when back in my collegiate days we were given email accounts. This was a fairly big deal then (I only got one because I strayed for the lib. arts curriculum and took some Engineering classes), and all email (as well as most other things you could do on the computer) was sent and received through terminal access, with a wicked-awesome green on black text interface (yes, I'm that old). Some of my friends had PCs in their dorm rooms (blazing 286s! 1MB of RAM!), but those were few and far between, and there was certainly no ubiquitous network like there is now. Right -- blah blah -- old man -- had to dial up hill both ways to get a 2400 baud connection -- blah blah.

Anyway, when you would access Usenet (old-school discussion forums, still around but way superseded) from one of the terminals and go to post, it would pop up a warning message that said:

This program posts news articles to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing.

Are you absolutely sure you want to do this? [y/n]

Ah, the good old days. You kids get off of my tubes!

Anyway, the whole point was to get to ye olde warning and contrast it with what I'm about to say:

The weather sucks.

(Your complaint about something as prosaic as the weather will cost the Internet hundreds if not thousands of dollars to distribute. Are you absolutely sure you want to do this [y/n])

Since we returned from South Carolina, it has rained every single day. In fact, Western Pennsylvania has received three and a half inches of rain, the average overall for the month of June, in just that last five days. Everything's damp. Woodworking and painting projects are all on hold. People whose basements have been dry forever have water. It just flat out sucks. (Note that flooding, real natural disasters are far worse than "suck," and this is in no way a comparison to those.)

But I just felt like whining to the Intehrnets about something that people have whined about for millenia.