This has nothing to do with anything, but it made me laugh...

Hot and bothered...

Last week, here in sunny Carolina, we were blessed with multiple diurnal intervals of surpassing heatitude, a truly expansive warmness of transcenturial character the likes of which I had not previously encountered. Yep, it was dang hot.

Too dadblame hot for me.

It seemed hottest on Monday and Tuesday, but maybe that's just because I kept the truck windows cranked down and the AC turned off those two days (trying to conserve fuel and save the universe, etc). Got too hot to do that for long, so by Wednesday I was chillin in frosty comfort as I rattled down I-85 in my aging and unpredictable Ford Ranger pickup truck.

I was back at my home base today, and don't expect to be asked again to travel. And, hey, it's only supposed to reach the upper 90s this week, so I can start letting the dust build up again in my AC vents.

"Daughter"

This is a song by Loudon Wainwright III called "Daughter", which has almost made me cry on a couple of occasions, despite the fact that I do, in fact, have a son, and not a daughter. I know just a little bit about Loudon Wainwright. I know that he is a singer/songwriter. I know that he appeared in an episode of M*A*S*H years ago. I know that he was a castmember of a TV show I liked a lot called "Undeclared". I know that he appears in a recent movie by many of the same folks behind "Undeclared", the title of which is "Knocked Up". And I know that this song plays over the closing credits of that movie, which is where I first heard it and where I was initially almost brought to tears, despite the fact that I have a boy-child, and not a girl child. Enjoy, and be sure to point your eyes away from the keyboard when the waterworks (inevitably) start.

Floormonster 2: Electric Floormonster

Floormonster...attacks!!!