Conveniently ignoring the fact that I CHOOSE to live in the South
Melody | Thursday, 9 August, 2007 at 8:49 PM When was the last time you got really and truly excited about a prediction that the temperature would reach 91° in a couple of days?
Duuuuuuuude...
Between the time I captured today's screen shot of the little handy weather report on the bottom of my laptop and, well, now, my cable went down for the second day in a row. Which never happens. Is it possible weather like this can bring down our ability to see bad TV And Our Access To The Rest Of The World? I'm sure there's a perfectly logical reason for why such a travesty would happen on the two hottest days I can personally recall with any vividness (I drove by a digital billboard at about 5:30 that declared the temperature was 102° then,) but I don't know what it is. And I think I want to blame the weather for this glitch in my ability to experience convenience Every Minute Of Every Day...as God intended when He made the Internet. And there's nobody to stop me, so yep...that's what I'm gonna' do.
I Can Not Wait Until Saturday. When I can actually go outside. For longer than 20 minutes at a time. And breathe while I'm out there. (I guess Macon and Jim must be halfway to the beach by now. And I'm not bitter. They had room for me in the car. Jim said so when he called yesterday to extend another invitation...right about the time I lost my internet connection for the first time this week. If it weren't for that workshop tomorrow, and that other little work commitment I made for the 3 hours right after the workshop...) Nope. Not gonna' think about it. I'm sure there's a good reason for me to stay in town while scads of my friends cavort around that little old beach town. And maybe I'll even figure out what it is one day. Oh. Yea. It's good to make some money. Work's good. Paying your bills is good. Yup... there's a good reason not to go! As it turns out.
Sat Ur Day. It's Going To Be Ninety. One. Degrees. On Saturday. Most Excellent!
Reader Comments (12)
I don't think I have ever seen that icon on the screen shot of the 100 degree days! (The one with the red heat marks coming off the thermometer.) Make some sweet tea. If you have to/choose to live in the South on days like this, you should at least have sweet tea.
I can't remember the last time I had sweet tea! Do you have sweet tea???
Make it go away!
That's all I'm sayin'...
I do have sweet tea. ;) Of course, its better today...
Just make some (iced)tea and sweeten it with Splenda! you will enjoy that just fine.
And about the heat, click on this link, and read
http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070811/NEWS01/708110308/0/SPORTS04
or paste it into the address line of your browser and see what kind of weather we're enjoying. Makes me think of a song by Nat King Cole before you were born: "Roll out those lazy, hazy, Crazy Days of Summer..."
If that doesn't cheer you up, remember the ICE STORM!
Love,
Dad
Melody, if it's of any help we live in the NORTH and it's been humid, hot and thunerstorms for the past week (102 degrees on Thursday). O'yeah we also have lost our electric 3 seperate times...the shortest time being 3 hours and the longest just shy of 12 hours. Of course it was during the evening/night when we were trying to sleep. Don't forget we'll be in Edisto Beach the 17th thru 25th if the need to cavort in the waves is still with you.
Okay, Joy - took your advice and had some sweet tea. Didn't actually make it here since I'd never drink that much, but what I tasted was yummy. Thought of you.
Dad, I never thought I'd hear you recommending that anyone "tamper" with your favorite cold beverage. Splenda, eh?
Curioser and curioser.
Nat King Cole has one of the smoothest voices I can think of. Lovely. Although I don't know that particular song.
These temperatures WILL be over soon, won't they? (And good point about the ice storms. Those memories provide some welcome contrast. Relativity and all.
Tamara I didn't realize it'd been that hot where you are! Wow about losing your electricity. So sorry. I guess it's more than a theory that this kind of heat can mess with what we traditionally think of as "givens."
Edisto. Aaaaah. I'm thinking about it. Not sure I'm going to be able to make it happen, but that doesn't stop me from thinking. If not, take lots of pictures!!!
Well, that is a big trade off. Splenda has fewer calories,and isn't bitter like some sweeteners. the downside is that it is expensive.
As to the heat, I am in the mountains of Western North Carolina tonight, at the Lake Junaluska Retreat and Conference Center. It's not quite so hot, but at times like the present, there just may not be a cool place anywhere between the equator and the arctic circle!
Goodnight!
Dad
How excellent you checked in from your retreat. I hope you enjoy it there!
Hey, Mr. Watson -- my brother grew up at that retreat center (his parents were ministers there). What a small world!
Sean,
Your brother had a beautiful place to call home! Some of our group said they could live there. I could too, if it were near other things I need to be near. I found myself wishing that, when I retire this little manufactured home, I could pard it in a place like that!
It's about ninety miles from where I live.
Don