Florida West

It is actually true when locals speak of the "dry heat" and how tolerable such weather can be, especially after you have logged your first summer.  Each year thereafter, the 110+ temps can be annoying, but you learn to hydrate, stay indoors, and find shade while outdoors.  True, there aren't many "cool breezes" in the desert. Usually its a grainy, dusty, oven-like burst of hot air.

I have been back in the desert for a week or so and the temps still reach as high as the century mark, but the 20-30% humidity makes it all rather unbearably uncomfortable to be outside.  Cold beverages (which you learn to carry after your first fainting spell during that first desert year) are suddenly covered with seemingly gallons of condensation. Your normally dry clothes are drenched with perspiration after twenty seconds of moderate motion.

It's not as bad as Florida, but almost....

Of course, unlike Florida, we have had no daily 20-minute cloud outbursts. Oh well, that's fine by me. I just washed the Jeep, after all.

Electric Blue

OK, so I have been AWOL from posting for well over a month, although it's not like too many wild and crazy things have happened since a lackluster LA Gay Pride Weekend. Oh, except for that revolutionary Gay Marriage thing, Tampa Bay having the best record in MLB, Hillary tossing her support to Barack, and KESQ going on yet another anti-gay hysteria binge.

Not much at all.

It's now less than a week until San Diego Pride Weekend. I've locked in three free hotel nights, partly to enjoy the Pride festivities and partly to catch four games between the hapless, last-place San Diego Padres and the suddenly-stumbling, wild-card-leading St Louis Cardinals. The games are in STL, but Channel 4 Padres will carry three of them.  And the final weeks of FOX 6 San Diego will feature a Padre-Cardinal telecast (FOX changes stations two weeks later, morphing KSWB 5/69 into FOX5.).

Oh, and even though I have changed to a cool blue look for the summer, I still hate the Dodgers.