The Heat Continues

 Same old same old, as the heat goes on. I wish winters would turn milder, with less extreme cold spells, if it's going to be so hot but it's the worst of both worlds, with extremes every season. I'm managing to stay comfortable but I suspect I'll have a whopper of an electric bill. I've been overpaying consistently for many months, building up credit, to lessen the impact of a heat wave, since I anticipated this sort of weather. I budget a certain amount each month for utilities and that's what I pay, and that is usually in excess of the monthly bill amount, and I do that precisely to minimize the impact of weather extremes. The credit I accumulate offsets peak use and I don't have nasty surprises. 

I've lost all interest in manned spaceflight. It seems to me to be nothing but another stupid monkey trick. Most of human civilization, of human history, impresses me as nothing more than stupid monkey tricks. It's all sound and fury that ultimately means NOTHING. 

Getting Hotter Again

 Another wave of extreme heat that breaks Saturday but before that another record high is possible, even likely. What a summer. I was forced to waste a lot of time this morning with a printer problem. I only wanted to print a letter. Oh, for a simple inkjet, printing black only, NO scanner, NO fax, NO color. SIMPLE! Can't seem to have simple anymore. Can't seem to have anything that isn't crap anymore. 

Welcome to the future! You get the very worst of the past with a shitload of wall to wall and floor to ceiling crap, all NEW crap, and none of it works. Except for the very worst of the past. That works very well. Just as lethal, just as toxic as ever. 

Very Nice Morning!

 We had a couple of showers in succession overnight, and the morning is cooler than it has been in several weeks, with plenty of clouds and a nice breeze, with the air rain-freshened. No doubt, it will be quite hot later, but I'll enjoy the morning.

It's terrific that we've gotten so much rain this spring and summer. 

Not So Hot

 Starting off much better today with clouds again, northeast wind, and light rain. Yesterday it did not get as hot as forecast because of persistent cloud cover. Anything to get relief from heat. I'd hate to live in the desert Southwest. Arizona, Nevada-- they are baking. Payback for all the fossil fuel consumption, and all the greed. Nature takes no prisoners and has no mercy. And I like that, I guess. The laws of physics are inexorable, inescapable, implacable, and exacting. Attempt to defy them and you pay the price. Ignore them and you could easily die-- just as humanity will die, trapped in the mass extinction event that human beings created by breeding like rats and gobbling resources as though they were infinite, as though greed had no consequences. 

Maybe their worthless gods will beam them up. HAHAHA! That's a joke, folks. 

Not As Hot Yesterday

 But above 100 F, still, as the heat goes on.  The weekend might be more endurable. Amazing the temperature extremes we've had in the past few years, from near zero F in the winter to many days of temps above 100 F in the summer. The worst of both extremes. Heat domes compete with bomb cyclones and polar vortices to make life miserable, or at the very least, uncomfortable. You can burn or you can freeze. Name your poison. You'll get both.

It's nice to see, finally, over-the-counter birth control pills. How about cheap and non-prescription morning-after pills? How about more sense and sanity? How about REAL freedom?? Freedom of conscience? Freedom of choice? How about killing off male domination? Patriarchy? How about freedom FROM religion? How about taking your religion, whatever the hell it happens to be, and shoving it up your ass, where it belongs? Keep it to yourself. Fuck off, in other words.