It was hot.

My part of the world did not experience the heat that the weather dweebs predicted but it was close.

At 2:00 this morning, I was awake and listening to the ac's pumping out their cool air. I decided to see what the outside temperature was so I grabbed my phone and checked the weather:

At 2:00 this afternoon, I decided to see what the outside temperature was so I checked my thermometer:

For the record, the sensor for that thermometer is on the back wall of my porch in the shade. That means that 99° is air temp, not sunshine temp.

When it's in the upper 70s at 2:00 in the morning, you know it's going to be a hot day. Turns out it was a hot day.

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No baseball for me to watch tonight so I'll watch a little bit of the opening round of the John Deere Classic and then I guess I'll burn through some DVRs.

Then again, I didn't get a lot of sleep last night so maybe I'll just go to bed early and read until I pass out.

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Here are some links:

• The words "forcefully and violently' are a typical Trump minion lie. Sort of like when Kristi Noem called Alex Pretti a "domestic terrorist" after several ICE agents wearing masks forced him to the ground and executed him by firing 10 bullets into his back from close range.



• Give it a few days and I'm betting the Ukrainians return the favor 10 fold.



• Seems to me this was the opening scene to several sci-fi horror movies back in the 60s.



• WTF! Why would they do that?

I need an explanation

How is it that the Red Sox can win 4 of 4 games against the Yankees and then turn around and lose 2 of 3 against the Nationals?

Can any of you explain that to me?

The needle on my hope-o-meter is dipping...

They are off tomorrow while they travel to the west coast where they will play a 3-game series against the Angels.

Since the Angels are worse than the Red Sox, I really hope they win that series.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to watch any of the games because they don't start until after 9:30 at night.

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The AC has been running since 10:00 this morning.

If you don't have air conditioning, I feel really bad for you. At my house, the temp got above 96° and the humidity was above 70%.

That, my friends, sucks but it's going to be worse tomorrow. The weather dweebs keep throwing around tempartures like 102° and even higher humidity.

Oh, and they are also saying the low tonight will be somewhere around 75° so none of that "cool night air" for us! Those air conditioners will run all night long.

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Here are some links:

• Apparently Dementia Donny has decided that his "best and most important trade deal ever" is not quit so best or important anymore.



• Idiots...



• It's my guess that frustrations are running high on that team.

Five in a row

The Red Sox have won 5 games in a row! According to Fangraphs, there is now a 20.6% chance the Red Sox will make the playoffs!

My concern is that I find this all quite fantastic and I feel like I am being led along the yellow brick road.

But then again, I'm trying hard to be Mr. Optimistic so I'll go along with Fangraphs.

Tonight's game against the Nationals starts at 7:10 and Early has the start. I'm hoping for a 6^th win.

I am well above the middle on the hope-o-meter and in all honesty, it's creeping a little higher every day.

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It was hot today but not all that humid. That means no air conditioning for us. We spent the majority of the day under the ceiling fan on the porch. It was very comfortable.

Tomorrow will be a different story and you better believe there will be air conditioning. Once the humidity rears its ugly head, ceiling fans don't cut it.

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Several years ago I was heading out to Boston to pick my eldest up from college. When I went there, I always took the exit formerly known as "18" off the pike and drove down Storrow Drive.

On one particular trip, I got off of the mass pike at the Allston-Brighton exit (18) to find myself in a parking lot. Not the normal, "Boy, there is a lot of traffic but it's moving" parking lot. No sir, this was a full-on parking lot. No one was moving. And since the highway exit is a bit elevated, I could see that no one was moving further down the road.

Turns out some guy in a 11' 6" tall camper bus tried to drive down Storrow Drive.

He drove under this sign:

Which I bet a dollar made a racket when he hit it.

Did that stop him? No, it did not. He continued down Storrow until he hit this bridge:

Where his giant air conditioning unit got ripped off the top of his camper and shattered on the road, effectively closing the road.

When the state police showed up and cleared the road, they had to keep it clear so the camper could reverse all the way back to exit 18, Once there he could pull into a parking lot for a DoubleTree Hotel.

This is an event that occurs often enough that it has its own name. It's called "Storrowing" and it pisses everyone off.

I spent 2 hours in that traffic jam. Thanks to our modern cellular communication devices, I was able to call my son and tell him I would be late picking him up at school.

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Here are some links:

• I don't think I've ever heard it referred to as a "jail purse" before.



• Our society has gone to shit.



• Key line in this story: "But what’s the good in being a semi-professional time-traveller if you haven’t got a time machine?"



• I gotta be honest with you, it always bothered me that if you come here from Venezuela, you got free tuition but if you come here from Rhode Island, you get shit.



• Dementia Donny has sent all his minions out to lie about his fair.

A sweep!

Sometime around 8:15 or so, NBC finally switched over from golf to the Yankees/Red Sox game and I finally got to watch the game.

And a hell of a game it was.

The Red Sox took a 2-0 lead into the 9^th inning but Chapman couldn't hold it and the Yankees tied it 2-2. The Red Sox failed to score in the bottom of the 9^th so extra innings it was.

In the top of the 10^th, the Yankees scored 2 runs, making the score 4-2 which meant the Red Sox needed to score at least 2 runs to keep the game alive.

Well, they scored 3 runs, won the game and swept the Yankees in their 4-game series.

This evening, the Red Sox will start a 3-game series against the Nationals. Suarez has the start and first pitch is at 7:10

My hope level is slowly creeping up into the upper-middle of the hope-o-meter scale.

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Here are some links:

• On the Fourth of July, I will fly my flag as I always do. I do not feel the need to explain why I fly it nor will I use it as a means to communicate anything other than the fact I am a citizen in the United States of America.



• It is possible that Psycho Vlad may have taken on more than he can handle.



• It should be perfectly legal to shoot these assholes before they cause a plane filled with 200+ people to crash.



• I hope they don't send Tolle, Early or Bennett down to Worcester.

I'm kinda pissed

It was my intention to watch the Yankees @ Red Sox game tonight. NBC was supposed to carry the game.

Guess what? They decided to carry the Travelers Championship instead.

This is why I hate MLB for selling games to national networks. The national networks don't always do what they say they are going to do and as a result, it is the fans that get screwed.

So I'm listening to the game on the radio and staring at MLB GameDay.

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Here are some links:

• The nutcases in Iran are crazier than Dementia Donny.



• Goofy Joe thinks Dementia Donny is a loser.