Hot as Frak

It's hot as frak here right now, and not just in our usual every-summer always-hot-as-frak way but as in extra-frakkin'-hot, like an-extra-five-or-six-degrees hot, which pegs us somewhere just around a hundred, which combined with our typical heavy-duty-humidity and an atypical lack of summer showers makes the out-of-doors pretty damn miserable. Even the pool is less than adequate consolation as the water turns bathwater-tepid and the pavement sears the feet. I confess, it's put something of a damper on my usual summer-fetish. But this too (hopefully) shall pass (though if the forecasts are correct, not any time particularly soon).