Caught in the Rain at the Monkey Bars (audio: noxsoma.substack.com)

Salutations beautiful bags of mostly water. Welcome to another Hump Day from Paradise.

The offers are not yet pouring in from Japan to adapt the story currently running on this channel, into a long-running anime adventure series. What’s missing? Demons. An impossibly big fire-breathing pet, that flies, and a pack of suicidal samurai. We’ve got the crazy old wizard, who will show up next month, we calculate.

Speaking of pouring. We got caught in a flash thunder storm yesterday at the monkey bars. It was amazing to watch. We escaped to a covered area, I want to call it a pavilion, but it doesn’t seem like the right word. Anyway, we found shelter and waited it out. What was interesting, to me anyway, was that the thunder and lightening arrived at the back end of the rain. Maybe that’s “normal.” But it always seemed to me that the team usually precedes the rain. Could have been wrong about that this whole time. The vessel doesn’t spend that much time outside in bad weather. Or maybe this Awakening-Thing has us paying closer attention.
By the way, our regular announcer is back on the job. Kudos.

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PEACE.