Unacceptable

It was 103F as of 3:35pm PST in Las Vegas, NV.

As of 3:49pm, it is 104F in Livermore, CA.

IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE TO BE IN A CITY WITH THESE KIND OF TEMPERATURES UNLESS THERE IS RETREAT TO AIR CONDITIONED SIN AT EVERY TURN.

I might also add that 104F is the ground temperature.  It is considerably hotter up on a roof.  Some poor bastards have been playing on roofs, making sure that radioactive particulate is not spewing out into the blue.  The good news I have to report is that all systems are nominal and no one is snorting cancer.  The bad news is that I am positively swimming in ballsweat from my afternoon wandering around roof exhaust units.   Swimming I tell you!

The extra bad news is that you just read that statement and have mental images.  This is why the damming of and installation of desalinization plants on the Straits of Gibraltar to give us the weather control we all richly deserve should begin at once.

According to the thermometer, it is now 105F.  I am waiting for the crows in the trees to start spontaneously combusting.

Luckily, I have a prechilled dewar flask, ice, and a fine selection of summer cocktails at home to make it all go away.

I Apologize For The Delay

But schooling and employment caused an insurmountable delay responding to a command to Fuck With benchilada's Art.  The original story, which can be found here, is one of the most pleasing short stories I have read about time travel in ages.  If you enjoy it, or this, he invites any and all to Fuck With His Art.  Without further ado, art fucking...

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( Time Travel - A Social Disease Of Great Import )