Odds and rainy ends

[nwhiker]

After a beautiful stretch of crisp clear fall days (mostly. There was some rain and some fog), woke up to a pouring rain Election Day.

It's grey and gloomy. I love it. I don't mind my PNW rains to be honest.

But I also headed out to my beloved wildland park for a tromp. I hadn't been in freaking forEVER. Between the parks being officially closed for a while, the request that we not drive to get outside, hurting my leg, business, and just general fall out of the habit, the whole summer went by since I was there, and a good part of the fall.

But I went today, did the shorter loop, since the rain was coming down hard.

And here is the issue. This is bizarre.

Normally I listen to my audio books using Overdrive. I never have any issues.

When I'm in the park? Google Assistant attempts to take over my phone, pushes the volume of the audio to the max and demands that I enable it.

I have nothing to contempt for Google products, so no way if fucking HELL will I enable that piece of spyware.

I have no idea why it starts, or why it happens there, but it's a pain in the ass because it pretty much ruins listening to my book for at least part of my ramble.

Rain still dumping.