Friday, July 22, 2016

Venturing Out into the Hot Texas Sun

Today it will only hit 101F and not 103F as they had earlier predicted.  Easy, peasy, right?

We already know the answer is meerkats so the question is whether it's possible.  Hoot as you will but an old geezer in this heat has an excellent chance of turning up as a morguesicle and there are better ways to get cool.

Note:  the Army was mandatory about taking your salt pills on hot days and they took that highly seriously.  And that's for young people.  It's not a mindless caution as heat stroke will mess you right up.


On the latest foray we discovered walking on sun-exposed concrete with bare feet is a bad idea but you can get away with it for a few steps.  You better find some grass after that or you will wind up with some burned feets.  Fortunately, the grass is often home to fire ants because they do so love a manicured lawn (true).  Unknown if it's the same elsewhere but they're all over the place here.

I don't think they will bother unless you screw with them so that seems a fair deal.  I do know Texans are afraid of them, tho, and if they need to take out a nest then they will go with a full nuclear assault.  Otherwise leave them alone and they probably won't be a problem.


The additional discovery out there was a package from Cadillac Man with a book about walking around the world by someone who really did it.  Reading it may take a few as it's about two and half or so back in the queue but thanks for something which could be remarkable.

Cadillac Man also included seven CDs and I recognized two of them.  There has been no attempt to keep track of what I've recorded and it's kind of cool now because I'll hear stuff and think, wow, who is this.  Most unusual phenomenon.  Some of these are from so far back I apparently didn't even know how to make the cool colors on them and they're plain white.

Thank you, Cadillac Man, as this was an excellent surprise.

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