Hot hot hot. Despite the heat, I can’t believe it’s July already. It’s officially summer. And a damned brutal one at that. Some sort of cosmic payback for the mild winter, I guess. So remind me again…why do I live in a place where the pavement buckles and blows up in the summer…and plumbing freezes in the winter? If only the Bay Area weren’t so flipping expensive. There the weather is ideal (in my opinion) year-round. And it’s a vegan paradise. But there a house like mine would cost five times what I paid for it here. Guess I’ll stay here and suffer. For now.