I'm fairly surprised to get only one email for yesterday's
href="http://dichroic.diaryland.com/acontest.html">Contest. I hope this means
that all my readers are already Gold/Supergold members, flush with cash, or both.
At any rate, it certainly does eliminate controvers yover who won. More later on
that.
At the bottom of yesterday's entry, I was not just whining when
I talked about the heat here; it turns out that yesterday we set what the local
news is calling a "particularly nasty" record, for the highest low temperature
ever in the Valley of the Sun. We row at 5AM, which is right at the coolest part
of the day. As it turns out the coolest yesterday ever got was 99 degeres. Ick ick
ick ick ick. They're s[eculating that this might turn out to be the hottest July
ever. Now, that can be pretty unpleasant when you're talking about hottest ever in
a place like, say, Philadelphia, but imagine it when you're already in a place
famous for heat. And before you tell me it's a dry heat, bear in mind that this is
July, not June. Normally what happens is that we get our hottest weather in June
when it's dry, then the monsoon starts at tthe beginning of July, the humidity
rises, and temperatures fall a little. Not this year; the monsoon is here and
we're getting dust storms and 115 degree temps in the same day.
It
does give me a lot of sympathy for the service members still marooned out there in
Iraq, where it's even hotter. At least nobody is shooting at me.