OMG it is so hot I can’t stand it. Really. If this continues, I’m going to have to move somewhere cooler.
Monongalia County has broken or tied maximum temperature records for June and July seven times. Six of those records were broken in a ten day period. (6/20/2012, 6/29/2012, 7/4/2012, 7/6/2012, 7/7/2012, 7/8/2012, 7/9/2012)
We may have broken that streak today, with a high of only 90F. Which is still unpleasantly hot. (Average historical temperatures should be in the low to mid 80s.)
And rain! (Or lack thereof.) Never do I remember it being this dry. Ever.
Here’s the “departure from normal” for West Virginia.
And the Eastern panhandle is even worse off than we are.
On top of this, there are still “a few thousand” people who don’t have power from the June 29th storm.
That’s right, people haven’t had power while temperatures have hit record highs.
I know full well that the plural of anecdote is not data, but this weather is abnormal, and I really don’t want this to become the new normal.
Michael: You know what they say, the fastest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Michelle: No, the fastest way to a man’s heart…
In unison: …is through his rib cage.
We have two different kinds of magnetic clips for our refrigerator. One kind is for chip bags, and the clips live on the fridge so we can find them.
The second kind are small clips that I use to display postcards on the fridge.
Both kinds, apparently, are fascinating to two-year olds.
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Saw some unusual things yesterday.
I would like to note those are VIRGINIA license plates, not WV.
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My birthday gift was a wide-angle lens for my camera, so this morning we drove to Tygart Lake to see if I could find anything to photograph.
It needed a tripod, but I wasn’t hiking with one. All in all, not too bad for my first tries.
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IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (more…)
“Good Morning,” said Deep Thought at last.
“Er..good morning, O Deep Thought” said Loonquawl nervously, “do you have…er, that is…”
“An Answer for you?” interrupted Deep Thought majestically. “Yes, I have.”
The two men shivered with expectancy. Their waiting had not been in vain.
“There really is one?” breathed Phouchg.
“There really is one,” confirmed Deep Thought.
“To Everything? To the great Question of Life, the Universe and everything?”
“Yes.”
Both of the men had been trained for this moment, their lives had been a preparation for it, they had been selected at birth as those who would witness the answer, but even so they found themselves gasping and squirming like excited children.
“And you’re ready to give it to us?” urged Loonsuawl.
“I am.”
“Now?”
“Now,” said Deep Thought.
They both licked their dry lips.
“Though I don’t think,” added Deep Thought. “that you’re going to like it.”
“Doesn’t matter!” said Phouchg. “We must know it! Now!”
“Now?” inquired Deep Thought.
“Yes! Now…”
“All right,” said the computer, and settled into silence again. The two men fidgeted. The tension was unbearable.
“You’re really not going to like it,” observed Deep Thought.
“Tell us!”
“All right,” said Deep Thought. “The Answer to the Great Question…”
“Yes..!”
“Of Life, the Universe and Everything…” said Deep Thought.
“Yes…!”
“Is…” said Deep Thought, and paused.
“Yes…!”
“Is…”
“Yes…!!!…?”
“Forty-two,” said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.”
Please also wish the same to Sarah.
And although this isn’t her Douglas Adams year, felicitations also to Kathy.
