Showers From Unexpected Angles

I woke up about 4 am this morning to what sounded like torrential rainfall. Since I'd been sleeping with the window open, I got up promptly to close it, looked out, and saw that it was not in fact raining. Then I started worrying that the toilet or some other bit of plumbing might have broken loose, and prowled the apartment only to find that they were all in order. Gradually I realized that the sound was loudest on one side of the apartment, and looked out the window. There was the answer. Someone had smacked into the fire hydrant on the corner. By the time I took notice, the fire department was on the scene shutting it off. I couldn't get any good pictures of it, but the jets of water going all the way across the street, with dark pavement beneath and fire truck lights shining through the spray, was really very pretty.

This is a fresh start for me, and there's something about the concept of what could have been a disaster turning out to be an interesting interlude and then gone that strikes me as the right tone for where I'd like to be right now. Expect me to focus here on the interesting and the positive, and to look for good frameworks for dealing with the important negative things when they come along. Much thanks to Adam Tinworth for making it possible.