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I was only a little kid when they had their hits, but I love Martha and the Vandellas.

Working on my porch today. No, not building it. Working on it, as in sitting at my outdoor table, hands on the keyboard and hooked to the world wirelessly, working for the man (mostly). Later today when the Sun gets around to this side, I'll shift to the back porch... perhaps snagging a cold one on the way through the kitchen.

Since I'm within a couple blocks of the water, I don't expect it will get to a hundred here today. Especially with all the trees. When I say blocks, I mean the distance one normally associates with a city block. No blocks here on my little corner of Puget Sound. Haven't seen a car all morning.

I am not wealthy, except in terms of luck, at least today.

Did you know hummingbirds fight each other like little attack helicopters?

C'mon, it's too hot! I've got 4 fans going, and it takes everything I've got just to type this...If I wanted to live like this I'd go back to New Orleans!

I'm visiting your fair city today, and gotta say: Yeah. Its warm.

The hotel where I am staying has closed its top floor lounge, which has some very nice views of the Sound due to the heat. They didn't close the pool or the exercise room next door...just the place to enjoy a barley-pop. They've got pitchers of cool water waiting for folks in the lobby.

I was a little taken aback by seeing the number of Pike Street Market stores with little signs out front saying they're closing at 3 or 4 or whatever due to the mad, crazy heat. Of course, I always get a chuckle over all the mad, crazy lefties there, so sure of themselves that our unregulated Wall Street capitalists (and Darth Cheney) have ruined this country while selling their flowers (which are always beautiful) and trinkets and t-shirts and whatever.

Its all a matter of perspective, of course, but in my neck of the woods (or my neck of the desert, if you prefer), 100 degrees is a back stroke. We do that by 10am, and it won't drop under that till midnight.

On the t-shirts front, I think the bloom has come off Obama's rose. I admit this is totally unscientific, and completely anecdotal, but my little walk-about today yielded not one sighting of an Obama t-shirt. Not one. In downtown Seattle, not one. Imagine that.

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