There are days when you just want rain more than anything else. You want to feel
it beating down on your head, to let the rain slowly soak into your clothes, or
bead off of your jacket, and fall to the ground. You want to sit on the fire
escape, and listen to the droplets bounce off of the metal, a natural percussion
that just outlines everything that's awesome about the world. Sometimes you just
want to sit inside, and hear the low applause of millions and millions of water
molecules as they find their resting place. I'm trying to be deep, but honestly,
the rain speaks for itself. It doesn't need me to make up silly analogies, or
metaphors. It's just something that you love, or you hate. Maybe you want to
see the sun every day, or maybe you'd be content to hear the rain day in, and
day out. Perhaps someday I'll live in Washington, or another place where rain is
a regular occurence, instead of sun-bleached California. However, I digress.
I just keep pining for rain today, and yet the clouds seem to be tauntingly far
away.

~caff

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Well, it's a departure from my previous opining on rain, but I'm now very
excited that I've gotten some functionality into caffbot on IRC. Stop by #bots
and try out his new !telephone command, which will run your phrase through
Yandex Translate up to 15 times.

Usage: `!telephone [iterations<=15] <text>`

Example:
```
03:47 < caff> !telephone Well a duck walked up to a lemonade stand, and he said to the man running the stand. "Hey, got any grapes?"
03:47 < caffbot> Translating to foreign languages! Please wait, it may take a while... (Results Powered by Yandex.Translate <http://translate.yandex.com/>)
03:47 < caffbot> en->cy->mk->bn->gd->de->hr->gd->en: Good duck standing would walk to the lemonade, and said that people are running. "When it was all over, earl?"
```

Hope everyone enjoys playing arond with this!

~caff

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I've also decided that I'm going to include a song with my feels. Today's is
Bloodflood by alt-J, one of my favorite songs to listen to in the rain. It just
feels perfect to look out, and see the rain drifting down the windowpane as Thom
gently serenades you, the tremelo in his voice emphasizing every droplet.

[alt-J - Bloodflood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv-zbP7lyjA)

[Bonus Rainy link](http://rainymood.com/watch?v=lv-zbP7lyjA)

~caff

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As an aside, I think today's experiments with [ASoftMurmur](http://asoftmurmur.com/) show that my ideal
place is a coffee shop by the beach, with the wind blowing in the background
by a crackling fire. At least that's my conclusion in terms of audio. Logistics
are quite another story.

~caff

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I know I'm editing this obsessively, and perhaps excessively as well, but it
feels amazing to be back to writing regularly. I used to do an excercise called
500 words, which is excatly what it sounds like. I certainly miss it. Perhaps
ttbp will be my new 500 words. I really don't want to steamroll others' updates,
so in the future, I'll try and update less frequently during the day. I'm just
excited and such. I'm already feeling so welcomed by the tilde.town community,
it's amazing. Hopefully I can continue building things and making friends in
this crazy place.

~caff