{"id":1030,"date":"2008-06-19T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2008-06-19T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T21:03:38","slug":"loud-look-out-the-window-and-lovely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"loud, look out the window!, and lovely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s Thursday, it&#8217;s time to share three beautiful things from the past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. Yesterday, The Killers&#8217; &#8220;Somebody Told Me&#8221; came up on my iPod just as I was getting to work and I had to resist dancing down H Street with it cranked up all the way. (Please note: I only resisted the dancing part. When I&#8217;m totally deaf by the age of 50 it will be moments like these and from back in high school when I&#8217;d blast Eponine&#8217;s lament or the penultimate song of the musical from <em>Les Mis<\/em> at full blast.) The song had four seconds left on the song when I paused it and so came up again this morning. So I played it again and skipped and danced a little on my walk to the Metro. I wonder what those Moroccan diplomats thought of me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>2. Yesterday evening, just after Rudi IM&#8217;ed me to say it was raining again, Suzanne called to me from down the hall: &#8220;There&#8217;s a rainbow!&#8221; In fact, it was a double rainbow glowing over the eastern part of the city. The bottom rainbow had some funky coloration issues going on with repeats of its purple and blue bands. I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve seen double rainbows twice this spring!<\/p>\n<p>3. Allison Krauss has a hauntingly beautiful voice and she and Robert Plant clearly enjoy performing together. 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