"Despite the documented evidence of chess historian H.J.R. Murray, I have always thought that chess was invented by a goddess." George Koltanowski, from Women in Chess, Players of the Modern Game
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Now Truly Fried...
Egoddess - the dew point is 75 - where am I living, the Equator? The "ambient" air temperature was 87 when I left the office at 5 p.m. I gasped my way to the bus stop (1 and 1/2 blocks away, crawling the last 25 feet) - it started to rain on my left side, while the sun was beating upon my back from the west. The bus arrived 3 minutes late; the bus driver, my "regular", instantly assessed my half-conscious condition and made the bus "kneel" so I could stagger on to it...
Headed southwest for the next 50 minutes, when I regained consciousness I observed the black storm clouds speeding to the east/northeast, headed toward Lake Michigan, and clear skies speeding up from the ridge at the county line (124th Street) in the west. When I got off the bus, much refreshed from the 55 degree air conditioning and wiping a melting icicle off my nose, I headed south into a freshening wind from the west/southwest. I believe the dew point dropped about 2.5 degrees. After I settled in home, I cleaned up the patio from the earlier storm's detritrius, and settled in for an hour. Now it's 7:29 p.m. and I've got a Johnny Cash special on PBS (they're trying to sell me a CD) - it's quite good, a conpendium of all the top level stars he had on his t.v. sh0w way back when - amazing, just amazing - watching Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, for instance, when they had no wrinkles. Goddess, were we ever all that young?
Hmmm, and now I seem to have forgotten the point about doing this particular blog entry - oh, and Carl Perkins (not particularly a fan) is on the t.v. (Johnny Cash Show) right now looking only 50 when everyone knows he's now 213 - and I have to admit, he sure could pick the electric GEE-TAR with a white twisted cord trailing on behind his behind, like a super-long piggy's tail. Oh, and the great pedophile Jerry Lee Lewis, looking all about 40 or so, doing the sqeezy-easy on the piano seat...
Okay - enough of that! Ah - now I remember - I wanted to post this, about horse sacrifice. It's a good beginner's primer, even if it was put together by fans of the Theophilosophical Society...
Ohmygoddess - now Derrick and the Dominoes are on!!!!! Wait a minute - something is wrong...Derrick is singing a country-western song... IT'S A POD PERSON - RUN, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES...
BTW, that primer was written about a late 1890's expedition to northwest Asia, a study of the Buriat peoples - complete with some photographs of the horse-killing portion of the ancient horse sacrifice ritual they practiced. Not for the weak of stomach.
I can relate. Here in Southern Fried Kentucky (and just 20 miles from the original Sanders Cafe, aka KY fried chicken), it was 90F at 830am. Yeesh... Rich
ReplyDeleteI didn't think Kentucky got that hot, I always thought it was a more moderate climate, a little warmer than here (southeast Wisconsin) in the summer and mild in the winter. Of course, it's been HOT just about everywhere in the US recently. Today there's a slight break, at least downtown on top of Lake Michigan - the wind is blowing from the northeast so there is a cooling effect and even though it was humid the temperature is about 75 - MUCH better than yesterday. It will probably be an oven where I live, though, I'm too far from the lake to get the cooling effect, drat!
ReplyDeleteNormally it's not too bad, but the last few years have been abnormally hot and humid. I grew up in Northeast Ohio. I miss those lake breezes, but not the lake-effect snows!
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I am rd, by the way. I just did a makeover of my blogger profile to reflect the name of my blog... Rich
ReplyDeleteAbnormally hot and humid? Well, I guess we're going to have to get used to it. What's your blog?
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