So, how HOT was it today???
Well, I saw a dog chasing a cat and they were both WALKING.


I know I shouldn't gripe. After all, didn't I spend all last winter griping about how cold it was? Well, all of a sudden, we've jumped out of the ICEBOX and into the FYRE! You know it's hot when you're sitting in the shade, by the LAKE, and you're breaking a sweat DOING NOTHING. And, I don't know if it's psychological, physical, or physiological, but I have really felt bone tired, just barely able to drag myself around when the temps are like this.

Long about 8 this evening, the lake breezes began to cool me off, and I began feeling more "mentally" awake, although my body still feels like a basket case. As I was driving downtown today, one of the digital thermometers I saw registered 94 degrees. Plus, we had some fairly heavy humidity, too. Ack. I'll bet the stores all sold out of roll-on deodorant today. It's 10:45pm now. I've got the fan blasting away, sucking air from outside, to make my living room TOLERABLE. I think I've also said that around here, spring and fall are my favorite seasons. The sunshine doesn't ROAST you during those seasons.
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Cut-price medical services dept.: Actually, this ain't as good as it sounds. I went up to the arthritis clinic where those professional vampires drew my blood, and it only cost me 12 bucks! And I thought I was getting a deal. Then the secretary told me, "oh by the way you'll get a separate lab bill". Too good to be true, again! But I wasn't surprised, either.
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The Mariners have been scoring runs dept.: Well, yeah, they have, but usually when relatively inexperienced young relievers come in late in the game to mop things up. The M's can score runs off those guys! They scored 6 last night, and 2 tonite! Of course, on those nites respectively, Oakland scored 12 and 7. My prediction? The M's will lose 90+ games this year.
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She won't need him, she won't feed him when he's 64 dept.: In the latest glitzy show-biz disaster (I'm beginning to sound like 'Entertainment Tonite' here), Paul McCartney is separating from his non-oriental version of Yoko. Yep, he and Heather are on the skids. Reportedly, she doesn't like it when people notice him and not her. He's not writing many 'Silly Love Songs' these days. (Mr. Rogers imitation: "Can you say PRE-NUP? I knew ya could.") By the way, Paul turns 64 on June 18th...that's a month from today. So, for his birthday, he's giving himself the gift of...FREEDOM. (Ironically, he had a hit with a song called "Freedom" in 2002.)
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Is she over the hill already? Remember when the latest country-music sensation was LEE ANN RIMES? At a very tender young age, she sounded like the next best thing to Patsy Cline...she sang that song, "Blue--oo--oo--oo-oo-o-o-o-o......." and she really sounded great. Well, professionally, she's washed up. She's appearing at a CASINO in Seattle. The downslide beginneth. What will we see next, George Strait playing in Worley? I think he's already played there, though. Okay, how about Randy Travis playing in Athol?
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A cool way to get back at somebody dept.: While I was hiding out in the air-conditioned coffee shop today, drinking LEMONADE, not coffee, I opened up a copy of the Spokesman-review I'd just bought. Out fell one of those free-postage "subscription" cards. And I thot, "wow, you could just put anyone's name on this card and send it in." Hmmm...anyone out there got Duane Hagadone's address? I'm sure he'd love to see the S-R on his doorstep. (Oh, by the way, you didn't read that here!)
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An old building being brought back to life dept.: All of the monstrous construction in downtown CDA is hard to miss! The block where the Social Security Office was, is now a DEEP PIT. Looks like they're diggin' to China. On the north side of Sherman, another pit is in the process of being dug. These, of course, will be the basements (parking areas, etc?) of two new condo buildings going up downtown. And, the condo "by the golf course" continues to shoot upward, blocking lake views for all to not see. (Yes, I meant to type it that way.) All of this rampant development is depressing and somehow threatening to my psyche. (I've got problems, don't I?)

But, in the midst of all this, relatively unnoticed, the small building that used to house "Journeys", on South 4th, across the alley from Java on Sherman, is being repainted, inside, at least; whoever's doing that is painting the interior a cheerful shade of yellow. If you look at the top of that building's facade, there's a little "dome"; I'm wondering if it was an old theater long ago. Moving across the street, I remember that many years ago, where the Bank of America is now (also on South 4th), there once was a little old strip mall; in fact, in 1968, there was a record shop in there for a while. KVNI used to have a little rock and roll show back then, and way back when, they broadcast from that shop during the store's grand opening.

Getting something off my chest here: I listen to KVNI's 'doo-wop oldies' and I don't have a problem with 'em; in fact, I've learned a lot about older rock and roll by listening to the "Mighty 1080". But, in their program promos, they'll say, "you don't have to listen to THIS (then a bit of "White Rabbit" or "Foxy Lady" plays), to get to THIS"...after which another one of their doo-woppin' oldies comes on the air. I feel personally offended every time I hear these program promos because I GREW UP on the music KVNI runs DOWN every CHANCE it GETS! And what does this mean?...another KVNI promo says, "some stations just play OLD RECORDS. We play the music YOU LOVE." Well, if my estimation is right, that doo-woppin' music was pressed originally on even OLDER records!
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Finally, I know you've all been waiting for this...or not dept.:











I don't know. Sophmoric humor like this makes me think I'm losing my touch. But then again, I've always had the talent of not having to tell a DIRTY joke in order to disgust people!
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I'm hot. I'm tired. It's getting late. A cold bottle of sports drink awaits. Maybe instead of drinking it, I'll just pour it over my head. Blaaaahhhhhhh.................................