The temperature in Dallas today reminded me, yet again, why I consider this area of the state a very, very unfriendly place for much of the year. When I left my office, the temperature was 102 degrees. That is miserable. I don't care how low the humidity might be in Arizona, in Dallas everyone knows that 102 is hot and miserable. When I experience a day like this, my thoughts turn to Mexico again. I sent my sister a link to a hotel for sale on a Mexican beach, at only $220,000, but have not heard back from her. If I could buy it, and convince my wife to join me, I would. The foundation of my house is stressing at the heat. This morning, as I tried to shut the bathroom door, it complained that the fit was not quite right. This is a bad sign.
To get our minds off the heat, etc., my wife and I went out for a very nice meal this evening. We went to Roy's, a very upscale national seafood chain. My wife had arranged to get a $100 certificate (didn't cost us anything...I like it), so we used it. It was wonderful. We calculated rather well and the final bill came to $3.38. After adding $20 for a 20% tip (service was outstanding), we paid $23.38 for a fabulous dinner that started with a wonderful mixed platter of sashimi (2 or 3 types of tuna, salmon, etc., etc., and wonderful wasabi and super-good seaweed, etc.), then I had very, very rare blackened ahi and my wife had a wonderful fish whose name I forget...along with a marvelous pasta side dish stuffed with delicious goat cheese. I could get used to this sort of stuff!
Back home, the heat offends me again. The air conditioner is on full-bore and will be, no doubt, for hours and hours...expensive. You can't live without it here.
On a different topic, I've been busily forwarding Greg Palast's promotional materials for his new book (which I haven't bought yet). I heartily encourage you to buy it...encourage friends to buy it. Or get a copy from the library and lend it around. Or buy it and lend it around. I am not interested in making Palast rich...I am interested in getting his information to the rest of the world. I'm getting scared of America. It's becoming too RELIGIOUS and too CONSERVATIVE. Diversity and tolerance are being increasingly viewed as bad things. If I don't have a religious fish on my car, along with a "ban abortion" and "keep your eyes on Jesus" bumper sticker, I am viewed with skepticism. I pity gays in this state...their sexual orientation is viewed by many as the expression of god's hatred of them (I use lower case "g" just to piss some people off...I hope it works!).
Like the bumper sticker on the car of my colleague says, "Support Our Troops: Bring Them Home," I value their willingness to put themselves in harm's way to support Iraqis and to do the bidding of our commander in chief...but I wish their willingness to sacrifice was viewed with some sense of responsibility by the idiot in the White House. Bush supports a Constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage. If we had successfully prevented sex between humans and earthworms, we would have avoided Bush as president, so maybe he has a point...on his stupid little head!
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