If you were in Palo Alto this afternoon around 5:30 you felt the thunderhead crack open above your head.  It never thunders here.  The rain has been coming down every day for the past week.  Its a 100% humidity and nothing is dry anywhere.  Nonetheless one man set out this weekend to start a string of fires in Los Gatos.

Police say at about 10:30 p.m. Saturday, they received a report of a dumpster fire on North Santa Cruz Avenue. A witness saw a man dressed in a camouflage jacket and hood over his head attempting to set fire to a dumpster.

As officers responded, they received another call of a small fire on Victory Lane and then three more fires were reported to 911. In all five small fires were set in dumpsters or on the ground during a 20-minute period and within 100 yards of each other.

You have to be in a pretty good mood to go around setting fires on a rainy day.  I mean you have to be dedicated.  Only a unique kind of arsonist can walk around soaking wet trying to set dumpster fires.  You have to be different from the rest.  You have to have a truly unhealthy conviction to your labor.  See this is my point about Silicon Valley, even its delinquents are unabashed workaholics.