It's 71 F and cloudy right now with an isolated thunderstorm north of us. It would be nice to get a cool outflow when it collapses. Don't think the rain will reach us. It's going to be a relatively hot week but records probably won't be broken. Mornings remain fairly "cool" with temps in the low seventies. August is typically quite hot here. It's already been extremely hot. When will relief come? It's sweltering south of us.
That's what we've got today-- a reprieve from the relentless heat but it will last only one day. Enjoy it while I can. I did last evening, out on the patio. It feels great this morning. Eventually this heat wave will pass, and then we get to deal with bomb cyclones and sub-zero F wind chills. I hope we have some kind of transition between the two extremes.
Getting a break in the heat at last. I was thinking yesterday of foods I don't see anymore, like parsnips. Mass consumption means even the foodstuffs get dumbed down and reduced to the most common and profitable items. I remember when I could buy spiced apple rings in a can, BBQ in a can, potato salad in a jar. Most people, I find, are quite childish and have childish tastes. Horrible to think of children using iphones and wasting time with social media. If they grow up thinking that a facebook "friend" is real, they are lost. I rarely see anyone reading a book anymore. Eyes fixed, glassy and vacant, on their stinking "smart" phones. I really think that humanity is ready for extinction. One of life's many failed experiments. It's very sad. I don't think that thinking animals work very well. A thinking animal is kind of grotesque, when you think about it. HAHAHAH.
Yes, a slight cooling, very slight, is on the way, but it won't last long. And then we will be cooking again. Many laughs.
106 F yesterday and probably the same today, before some brief relief on the weekend. It's kind of funny that hypertrophied monkey brains will turn out to be a greater threat to life on earth than any killer asteroid. Global warming might be entering an exponential phase, and if that's the case it is probably time to kiss your ass goodbye.
