Today's Tempature? Hotterthanhell.

Okay. I have to admit it. The heat is getting to me. The bloody forecast for today is 110°. Yesterday it was 110°. There’s nothing under 105° anywhere in the near future. Makes me want to crawl into a hole and sleep for the next couple of months. I honestly do not know how the people in Baghdad survive. It was 122° there yesterday, and I’m pretty sure they're not blasting the A/C 24/7 like we do here. The trouble is, it’s also been humid. Not real bad. Not Atlanta humid. But it doesn’t take much to make my swamp cooler completely worthless. Nothing like living in misery.

While I was looking at the weather section of the paper today I noticed something I had not before. Right next to the ultraviolet index it says, “Number of minutes a fair-skinned person can stay in the sun from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. before unprotected skin damage.” Underneath that it had the number 20.

Chuck is one of those fair skinned people. That boy is a white boy all the way. If he’s in the sun more than 1.2 seconds he turns hot pink. I have never seen anyone more fearful of the sun. He practically runs from shade spot to shade spot, always looking out for the best way to avoid the sun.

I hate to say it, but if he really wants to avoid the sun, he needs to move.