108 Degrees In San Antonio Today,

What did I tell you?  It’s frick’n hot here!

The temperature reached 108 degrees in San Antonio today.  It was FOUR degrees above the record high for on this day.  The whole SouthWest U.S. is broiling.  Even Death Valley is expected to reach a record high of 130 degrees tomorrow.  I expect this planet has only a few years left as global warming will burn us to a crisp and the Earth will look like Mars.

I was out in it today.  A friend and I went to an Nudist convention near Bastrop, TX.   I played in a water volleyball tournament.  Unfortunately my team lost right away.

It was damn hot.  Even the dirt and grass were burning my feet. It got so hot in the car that my iPhone, which was inside the center console, burned my hand when I picked it up. When I turned it on it only displayed a message saying it was too hot to operate.   It was even hot in the shade and the pool was close to 100 degrees. (Not exaggerating.)  At least it is cooler outside when you aren’t wearing any clothes.

Dreambog – The Trip to Japan

I was headed to the airport with my mom and sister for a trip to Japan.  I hadn’t even had time to pack so I figured I would just buy whatever I needed when I got there.  We already had our tickets when we walked into the airport but could not find any information on which gate we needed to go to.  I pulled out my iPhone and found that we had to get all the way to gate 40.

It was a log way to gate 40 but there were some large wagons with seats that you could ride.  Rather than being electric, our cart was being pulled by a little gray-haired lady who looked older than my mom.   I thought that was pretty weird.  My mom got out and switched with her.  That was too much for me so I switched with my mom.  I pulled the cart around a corner and got stuck in a bunch of round dining tables.

After finally making it to gate 40 the gate attendant told us that the flight was delayed because of a hurricane over Japan.  I pulled out my iPhone for a weather map and sure enough, the hurricane completely covered the island.

 

I am getting too old

I am getting old really quickly now.

Did you know that the movie, Independence Day, was released 17 years ago?

Did you know that Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was?

Did you know that Will Smith’s son is now in high school?

 

What the hell just happened?

 

How much energy is used for Air Conditioning?

As I make the dash from my office to my car on this sunny 99 degree day in San Antonio, I pass by the air conditioning system of the building.  It is so big and loud.  It runs 24 hours a day pumping the heat out so people can exist inside.

Can you imagine how much energy it uses?  My home central Air Conditioner uses 5 Kilowatts.  That’s the same energy as FIFTY 100 watt incandescent light bulbs

There are 40 houses on my block.  That’s 200 KW in one block.  Multiply that times the hundreds of thousands of blocks in the city and it will boggle your mind.  Multiply that by the number of cities in the southern United States…I can’t even begin to calculate.

The majority of the energy generated in San Antonio goes to cooling.    Compared to that, any other usage like lighting and electronics is a tiny sliver of the pie chart.  As global warming ramps up, this can only increase.

What the world needs is a new method of cooling that uses much less energy.  The phase change system we use now has remained essentially unchanged since it was invented back in 1902 by Willis Carrier; God of Air Conditioning and my personal hero.

I wonder what it would be like to live somewhere where I could go outside on a summer day without my hair bursting into flame.  I can’t imagine such a place.

TV Series – Under The Dome

A few years ago I attempted to read “Under the Dome” by Stephen King.  I only got halfway through before I got bored.  To much social interaction and not enough dome.

I was glad to see that they were making a TV series and I’m hoping it will be easier to follow.  I don’t have a good history of following multi-part tv shows though.  When you have to wait a whole week between episodes, I forget what happened and who everybody is.   That’s why I couldn’t keep up with Battlestar Galactica.

So far I’m doing my best to pay attention.  The cast is as follows:

Female policeman from “Eureka”
Wolfman-Jack Policeman
Bruce Willis mayor and car salesman
Christopher Reeve guy with knife
McDreamy guy who killed some woman’s husband at the beginning.
Vampire Kidnapper
A lot of other unnecessary characters.

I sure wish I lived in a small town that was suddenly cut off from the world.  I would be so happy.  It would be the best place to live ever.

Paula Deen is not a racist

For the last week Paula Deen has been in the news because she said, “Nigger” back in the 1960s.   Well, I have news for you:  EVERYONE said “Nigger” in the 1960s.

Now she is being forced to apologize for something that was normal 50 years ago.  This whole thing is such a waste of time and money and proves that the U.S. is so backward that we worry about this instead of the important things.

A Study on an Empty Fridge

My fridge is suddenly empty but I am thinking I like it that way.  When it is full I feel that I have to eat everything before it spoils.  I end up eating unnecessarily and feeling unpleasant.  My cabinets are pretty bare too.  No chips, no soda, no bad stuff.

I eat out for lunch pretty much every day.  Sometimes it is a healthy meal and sometimes not.  In most cases I’m really not hungry in the evening for anything other than a small snack before bedtime.  I think I like the idea of not having a lot of food around the house and I think I’ll let it go for an extended period and see what happens.  I will, perhaps, buy some fruit and other healthy things to snack on.  I don’t get enough fruits and veggies in my diet anyway so now I will be forced to eat them.  I love a good experiment.

Of course I will not be prepared when the Chinese detonate the nuke in our atmosphere causing an EMP that destroys our power grid and turning everyone into hunter-killers.  Oh well.  I guess I’ll just have to die.

Naked is better

I hate wearing clothes.  I really don’t see the point.  Clothes are hot, confining and overall unpleasant.  When you are at home, why do you wear clothes?  Nobody can see you anyway and then you’ll just have to wash them.

Here in San Antonio, it’s hot.  Damn hot.  Real hot!  The only way to achieve comfort is to get naked.  When I get home from work, my clothes come off at the door.  Much better!  I like to spend time out in my back yard and it sucks to have to put on shorts to go outside.  I have spent a lot of years making my yard as private as possible so that won’t be necessary.  There is just one section where the back side neighbor’s 2nd story window looks over my fence.  Fortunately they keep their vertical blinds closed against the heat most of the time.

I plan on building a 15 foot vine trellis to cover that view.  Hopefully by next year I can use the yard and pool naked all the time.  (As long as my right next door neighbor house remains abandoned.)  Crossing my fingers for that.  In the meantime I’m just taking my chances.  I really don’t care anymore.  I must be able to do what I want to do.

So, you are probably saying to yourself, “This guy is crazy.”  Well, then you probably haven’t tried it.  Nudity is wonderful.  It is the way we were born and the way we were meant to be.  Did God make Adam and Eve wear clothes?  No.  That was their idea after they ate the damn apple.  Before that they were perfectly happy and at one with nature.

So stop making that face and take your clothes off.  You know you want to.

First Day of Summer

I just found out that today is the first day of summer.

I was under the impression that summer started months ago. We have been in the 90s for weeks and the 80s for months. Somebody needs to fix the calendar.  Summer starts in March.

Dreamblog – The Secret Neighborhood

I was riding to lunch in a co-worker’s car.  We drove past  an area that looked wooded.  I knew from looking at a satellite picture that there was a secluded neighborhood in there somewhere.  I mentioned it to him wondering how to get to it.  He immediately turned right onto a small driveway that lead into the forest.

We drove past houses spaced nicely far apart.  There were no wooden fences around either the back or front yards.  I saw only one chain-link fence.  I wanted to live there so we drove around looking for sale signs but they were difficult to find.  The few I saw were on large houses that I knew I didn’t want because the price would be too high.

There was a small grocery store inside the neighborhood.  We were suddenly driving INSIDE the store.  My co-worker suddenly accelerated hard down a middle aisle and a woman yelled at us for going to fast.  We reached the end of the aisle and turned.

I grabbed a cart and one of the wheels fell off.   I pushed it to the checkout counter and tried to figure out where to leave a broken cart.  I handed the wheel to an employee.  The woman who yelled at us told me that wouldn’t have happened if we weren’t going so fast.  I didn’t want to argue with her that I didn’t have that cart at the time we were going that fast so I let it go.

Outside the store, my co-worker had purchased a few items so we loaded them into his car.  As I got into the passenger’s seat, there was a wasp on the dashboard.  I tried to shoo him out the open door but he flew back in and into my face.  I blew at him trying to keep him away from me.