RTT- Or What is This Water Falling From the Sky?

It's Tuesday. You know the drill. Go visit the Unmom for more randomness.

Well, it's raining. Really. It hasn't happened in so long I wasn't sure what it was. It's been over two weeks. I checked out our local cable news outlet online just see how long it had been and found this jewel.

	Wx Stations	Now		Hi		Low
	Downtown	77°		89°		75°
	San Marcos	85°		87°		78°
	Round Rock	72°		83°		71°
	Lago Vista	448°		87°		43°
	North Austin	79°		112°		77°
	Bastrop	85°		87°		78°
	Lockhart	84°		88°		78°
	Taylor	74°		85°		74°
	HT	76°		88°		73°
	Fredericksburg	83°		85°		78°

I love that its apparently 448 degrees in Lago Vista. I thought the lake effect was supposed to make things cooler. Or that apparently in North Austin, where I work, it hit 112 before the rain came even though every place else was almost 40 degrees cooler. I suppose the fact that its been over 100 degrees for 16 days in a row might be the reason some of the weather stations are wonky. They're tired.

Any way. Hubby worked on the AC unit from hell last night for almost an hour. He'd just given up and was looking in the phone book for a repair shop when the compressor, which had died at some point that afternoon, suddenly kicked in and started working again. It's like the damn thing knew we were pissed off and was trying to appease us. Low bid piece of crap. Seriously, we have no idea what we did that made it decide to start working again. Nor any idea of why it quit. Oh, the joys of home ownership.

So, today we have some respite. Once the rain stops, it will become a sauna in short order. For at least as long as it takes to dry out.

The world this week has been kind of crazy, don't you think? Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays all dying. A coup in Honduras. Police officers beating up and pepper spraying folks in gay bars and low key politcal meet and greets. Ain't it a great time to be alive?

Though I have to say the YouTube (Yay YouTube!) video of the woman in Honduras smacking the hell out of every solider that walks by her is priceless. (It's towards the end of the video) Who would have ever thought that YouTube, of all things, would have turned out to be so powerful? It's hard to deny what you see with your eyes. I know that things can be manipulated and staged, but that holds true with what see on the MSM. I mean, I remember hearing how the anti-American rallies in places in the Middle East in the 80s and 90s wouldn't really get rolling until the cameras started and seemingly stopped when they went away. We are no longer confined to seeing what the government controlled media wants to see in places like Iran and Honduras. And that may make all the difference.

Today is the day that Lt. Dan Choi has his hearing that will determine whether or not he is discharged for the National Guard. It's expected to last at least through this afternoon. I will be watching the feeds to see the outcome. It's crazy.

Well, work beckons. In kind of a lazy, meh kind of way. Later. I leave with random links:

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