Today's Apocalypse Sign: A Couple Unrelated Things That Really Are Signs

First, and there is no delicate way to put this, it is FUCKING hot outside. Thirty-two days straight of temps over 100-degrees. My eyeballs are melting as soon as I walk outside. Grass has not needed mowing in over a month and is a lovely shade of dead. July saw ZERO point ZERO inches of rain. The forecast this week?? Enlarge it and get a good look.

Heat index of 100-degrees at 10:30 at night??? Seriously?

Clouds? Precipitation? That's a lie. 82, 83 for a low...it was 89-degrees this morning at 6AM.

You Californians so smug with your hippie-like 60's....

We are on pace to become the hottest summer on record, breaking the 31-year old record set in the summer of 1980. We are already at number two with 40 days total this summer over 100-degrees...and August is our hottest month! I have to watch new shows AND reruns of Ice Road Truckers and Deadliest Catch just to feel cool in the living room. I think the A/C has run 32 straight days! I have not turned on the hot water in the shower in over a month. The coldest water out of the tap is when you first turn it on and then it gets gradually warmer as you let it run. Even walking through the parking lot at Walmart where there are ten billion black spots of gum and other saliva laden debris is an adventure for the soles of your shoes since everything is molten and gooey. It is truly disgusting. There is no air movement and the feeling is like being in a giant convection oven. Again, FUCKING hot as hell.

On the lighter side...

I continue to be intrigued by these Ace Check Cashing radio commercials. I hear them every morning and they amuse the hell out of me.

"Yeah, it's about time my car returned the favor and paid ME back." (Miss a payment and your car will be leaving forever.)

"It's nice I can use my title to get the money I need for some things that just popped up." (Girlfriend's pregnant, gotta go to the clinic. or I took a beating on the Dodger's game.")

They have a real nice hook now..."Just repay your loan by the due date and there is no interest of fees. What could be simpler?"

Are you serious?? Is this anything more than veiled, legalized loan-sharking? Even the disclaimer at the end of the commercial tells you that loans are made by an unaffiliated third-party. Who is THAT? The Gambino family?  Scarface? Is Ace Check Cashing just a shell for the Mob? Is it just me that thinks this?

What kind of desparate do you have to be to do this? If you are that deep in something that you think this is the way to go...do you really think you will have the full amount next week?? NO. You will be sucked into paying exhorbidant interest/fees (the vig?) and risk a visit from Johnny No Neck for your pink slip.

Then again it is a good money laundering method.

Did I mention how HOT it is??

Today's Apocalypse Sign: Texas Weather and Other Sundry Things.

Well Super Bowl week is almost wrapping up to game time. Jerry Jones has experienced the worst week of his billionaire life.

1.   Cowboys are not in the Super Bowl and therefore cannot claim to the first team to play a home game Super Bowl. His biggest dream when he built the biggest stadium.

2.   Monday night started off the week with a winter ice and snow storm (mostly ice) and frigid temperatures (see post from a couple days ago).

3.   Temps continued into the single digits rendering every road in Dallas a bumper-car or demolition derby (depending on speed) adventure. Only the idiots ventured out.

4.   Last night dumped anywhere from 5 to 8 inches of snow on the entire metroplex and to the east Texas area. Snow over ice on the roads. This virtually shut the city down. The news ran nothing but weather for 6 straight hours bumping even the Today Show.

5.   The sun came out for 4 1/2 minutes in Arlington (God's sense of humor) and that combined with no bone-chilling wind and the heat being on in Cowboys Stadium proceeded to turn the roof of said stadium into a giant slip and slide of ice and snow. Giant shards of ice slid down the roof curve and plummeted 290 feet to the ground injuring 6 people severely.

6.   Tonight anything that melted to slush is going to freeze where it lies and create a driving nightmare tomorrow morning...AGAIN, for those who have to.

7.   The financial bonanza that was predicted for this week is dwindling day by frozen day. And Jerry wanted a legacy of Super Bowls in his stadium.

I guess even the rich don't get what they want all the time...and they can't control Karma or Mother Nature! (I believe even now Jerry has scientists devising his own Sun so this can never happen again.)

On the lighter side, my dogs enjoyed the hell out of the snow day! See this video I made:



Here are some other pictures of the day: (click each one to enlarge)

First thing this morning after 3 hours of snowfall

The guardian of our storage entrance! (Do you see the face?)

Am I still in Ohio???

Yeah that's the image Garland is trying to promote. Ski capital of Texas maybe?

Slip sliding away...and off the roof! Look out below...

Here is a picture from LAST February 12th:

Back to the future!

Hope all of you are staying dry and warm.