Heat Wave

It's hot in Mobile! The whole southeast is sweating under a nasty clump of high pressure, and it's made for two weeks of hot, hazy, beige skies. Temps have been around 95-100, with the humidity making the heat index around 110 most days. Our nice summer afternoon thunderstorms are gone, and now it's just dirty and sweaty! It's August in Alabama!

Going back to the recap, not much has been going on here. Weekdays are pretty mundane and monotonous...just working. Every now and then I might go down to the river in the evening or have a pint at Callaghan's, but basically weeks are pretty slow.

Weekends have been a little more interesting. I've been down at the beach a bit; went to the Blue Angels show off Pensacola Beach a few weeks ago. The following weekend I had a CLE in Birmingham and spent a leisurely weekend up there and in Montgomery. Not a bad getaway, it turned out. The weekend after that I went to DC for a couple of days then to New Orleans for a friend's moving-away party. The last month or so has almost been like living in Mobile is my Day Job and getting out on the weekends is when I live my real life and eat good food.

Not that I haven't been trying to enjoy being here; I go out to eat once in awhile and try to find new, interesting people/places/things, and it's great to be by the water, and I'm glad to see downtown improving. But it's still fairly bleak people-wise. You know, there's basically nobody here to do much with. I see Trev from time to time, and my family, but not having a dynamic, interesting community is a drag. So it's energizing to get out when I can to places where I do find such a community.

Alas, the sedation here just means I have more time to work on projects and try to figure out my next move. Good self-improvement time.

I leave you for now with a site we all can enjoy: Manboobs.
Back again soon for more backlog-clearing.