NOBODY MENTION REPTILES

It seems like only yesterday iguanas were falling out of trees because of the cold. We miss those days! The trick to surviving when the temperature recalls Karachi and Tehran is to either get a job in a well-airconditioned office, OR to ponce around the house in one's underwear cussing sotto voce. Guess which one I'm doing. With a pipe in my mouth.
And I'm thinking of ice tea, despite not being Southern in the slightest.
Oh what perilous times are these!
Ice tea, forsooth.

Actually, it is too darn hot to ponce. There is no poncing.

I'll probably have to get dressed before she get's home.


Headed out for lunch at a reasonable time. Rice, stewed fatty pork, tofu. Loaded up a pipe and found a shady spot. After about ten minutes decided that my circulation wasn't up to it, back hurt like billie-O, caught a bus back across the hill. Upper back still feels like heck.

It's actually not insufferably hot, back in my hoary youth it would have felt quite decent, but the veins and arteries now object strongly to these conditions.

I shan't visit Karachi or Tehran anytime soon.
Not till the next ice age, I think.

The Deep South is also out of the question. Most of the time it's too warm there also, and dickheads are common year round. Plus the food gives you diabetes.

Besides, we have teabags, sugar, and ice cubes here.
We're pretty much self-sufficient.
Dickheads too.

A neighbor mentioned that she lives on the top floor of her building, apartment facing south. So for the past few days she's been hosed. The weather should be semi-normal again next week. I expect all the tourists will go away, they seem to sprout when it's warm.

Eighty degrees. 太熱嘅啦！

I'm sorry, we have no iguanas here, none at all.
That's the Midwest you're thinking of.
They're tasty, I know.



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