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During sunny summer days I'm apt to forget just how lovely a rainy day can be. You know, those Saturdays when you wake to the sound of rain hitting your window, rain that continues all day long. Today was like that and I loved every minute of it. I took my time reading the paper, watched a photographer friend's extraordinary multimedia slideshow on my computer, made one of my own, got this idea for a self portrait (see today's image) and took at least 25 shots to get one I liked, had a nice long phone visit with my dear friend Dorothy in San Francisco, watched some behind-the-scenes videos of Barack Obama on YouTube, and looked at the work of UK photojournalist Edmond Terakopian on http://www.pix.org.uk/. I ended the day with dinner, a video and singing at the piano with my sweetie. Yes, it was quite a lovely rainy day...