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September 23, 2007
Heeeeeeeee's Back
Well, after a considerable hiatus, I am going to start posting again on a more regular basis. The last few months have been pretty busy. I've also been overtaken by a certain lack of motivation to do many things.
The weather has probably had something to do with it. This has been one nastily hot, and hence enervating, summer. August of 2007 here in the Southern Part of Heaven shattered existing weather records. First, it was the hottest month on record, and by a margin of something like a degree and a half (that's like breaking the existing record for the mile dash by fifteen seconds). It had the most days over 90 ever (with the exception of some rather controversial readings dating to an era before the modern weather stations at RDU, though I think we are close to breaking even that old threshold). In other words, it has been (to channel Robin Williams' version of Adrian Kronauer) "hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut". And today is no exception: at noon it is 89 degrees (Fahrenheit, of course: I'm your standard stubborn American exceptionalist) with a pretty unpleasant dew point of 69. True, this isn't the worst we've seen (we've had days of 105 with dew points pushing 80) but, for God's sake, it's September 23rd!!!
As the temperature settles in a bit, I believe my posting will pick up.
Posted by dag at September 23, 2007 12:08 PM