Nice photo. Eric, it’s a shame you’re so slim now. Otherwise, I could see you and Tim cast as Heat Miser and Snow Miser in a live action “The Year Without a Santa Claus.”

i love how some Texans/southerners/West Coast folk say they’d never live in the Northeast/Midwest because of the cold

well, this is my third summer here now and it only gets hotter

i’ll take Jan/Feb/March in the Northeast any day over late June/July/Aug/early Sept down here

this is freakin’ ridiculous…i feel faint every time i’m outside for more than five minutes

do you people even know how much fun it is to get drunk while underage in the woods/parking lot/anywhere outside during a snow storm around Valentine’s Day or play football in the rain in October when it’s 54 degrees?

beats standing in line at Six Flags or a water park with your blood boiling that’s for sure

JRP - go home! JK! It is rediculously hot at times, but cold goes to the bone. Plus, with the flat ground, you can see real far!

Here’s an anecdote for you…

Last afternoon, my apartment AC went out. Blowing hot air. Called the office they came out and replaced the compressor. Worked for about 2 hours, then started doing it again. Called it in again, about 5 PM. Got a call back at about 6 PM, that some motor part was going to have to be replaced, but the part had to be ordered and it wouldn’t be in till the next day (today).
Well, I used my handy dandy Sprint Mogul phone to find the nearest hotel (La Quinta on Knox/75) and book myself a room for the night.

The funny part: While I was checking in, TWO other check ins were by people whose AC had died.

True story.

the problem with the Texas summer is that it’s 365 days long.

many of you are ignorant about the change of seasons because you’ve never experienced it (and don’t gimme no crap about the three months/years you lived in philly, nyc, boston, D.C.)

the incessant heat has fried your collective brain

there’s a reason no one lived in the Southwest pre-AC: it’s a freakin desert

just understand that, please, you advocate living in a desert, are we clear Adamundo? hot, flat and illiterate are no way to go through life

it’s little wonder to me why Texas ranks dead last among the 50 states in air quality, but i guess most of you think a 5,500 sq ft home kept at 65 degrees all year with 3 SUVs in the (climate-controlled) garage are your birthrights

according to a report from last year by state Sen. Shapleigh, Texas ranks first in air pollution emissions, pollution released by manufacturing plants, greenhouse gases released, amount of carbon dioxide emissions, toxic chemicals released into waterways and amount of carcinogens released into the air.

but, hey, it’s too cold to live anywhere else, right?

as you can guess, i’m in a bad mood, due not entirely to the freakin’ Sun that’s in my back pocket

so if you wanna spar, bring it

otherwise get you arse to the air conditioned bar for happy hour

jrp: and yet, here you are.

Maybe YOU should go to the bar. And away from your computer.

yeah, rollin, that’s it “Yankee, go home.”

that a step sideways from your boy, Adamundo

lemme guess, DISD edjamacation there, huh?

how is three weeks (soone to be two more months) of temps of more than 100 degrees acceptable? what’s in that damn cactus juice anyway?

true, here i am. in need of a drink and some snow. but i’m here for my wife, as we all make sacrifices. we’ll eventually move and the weather will be a big reason why. another will be the ignoramuses.

i thought Manhattanites were parochial, myopic and delusional until i moved here.

jrp, if this weather simply isn’t “acceptable” for you, go home. Also, if you plan to critique someone else’s grammar, perhaps YOU should start using something called a capital letter in the beginnings of your sentences. Your punctuation fails to meet standards, as well.

I should also mention I have not complained once about the heat other than a “yep, its hot”. and I”m pregnant

Right on rollin, it’s Texas, summer, so get over it. I went to school in NH, walking to class when it’s “0″ or below has it’s drawbacks as well.

Everyone play nice, please…

fake i-d-i-o-t-s?

Bethany, I have some really cute coats…but what happens when I go somewhere and have to hold it AND my purse AND hope I don’t spill my drink since my hands are full? Plus, bathing suits cost less than coats. IJS.

Elizabeth, go crap in your hat. Seriously, is you life view so skewed that using CAPS or employing the proper comma usage on a blog are of any import? God, Bless Us. go teach grammar to kids or something. seriously, get over yourself.

and it’s not that the weather is unacceptable or anything remotely close to that, i’m just still trying to figure how so many people actually prefer this heat to living somewhere (milwaukee, bangor, berlin, moscow) that has four discernible seasons

and those that say “just move back to where you came from” clearly have never lived more than 20 miles from where they were born

m2thej, thanks a bunch for some support. i guess the joys of getting drunk with family and friends on a Tuesday night as feet and feet of snow comes down isn’t something everyone should be lucky enough to enjoy. and best of luck with the pending birth.

c’yous suckers next week

I take offense to the why God invented man line. But I guess thats what I get for the liberals created the humidity bit.

I kid you not. I have heard that one before.

Today, rollin, I was looking through this trivia book by Ken Jennings and was reminded that in 1980, Ronald Reagan blamed 80 percent of air pollution on trees.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s hot. On a separate note, Scott Murray is still alive with weird hair. Some stupid Barnett Shale thing on Ch. 5 tonight and Mr. Murray is doing a kick *ss job! He’s alive!

Actually I wish my ancestors had made it to California rather than staying here. Now that is a nice place to live. Lowest electricity rates in the USA because you do not need to heat or cool that often.