I grew up in Houston; the thought of that sort of weather still gives me the shakes. Anywho, glad you're looking forward to it; safe travels. :)

See?! :eek:

And it seems you have successfully escaped. :rolleyes:

Other places in the U.S. get just as hot and muggy as Houston, but the miserable conditions generally don't last as long. It's really demoralizing by the time you get to October, and you can't recall the last time you went outside in the morning to feel a cool breeze. At least most of Florida gets ocean breezes.

Agree the humidity is hellish; but I love the heat. I could happily live in 90-100 degrees year round if there was no humidity.

Guten Tag Box. Looks to be a day of netbook deals.

Woot has the original eee netbook, refurbed, $170.

Newegg has the Lenovo S10 for $320 after rebate.

I've never watched it myself, but a couple weeks ago I got a call from my mother saying that she had been flipping through channels and had just seen an episode of this show starring a HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE of mine (I went to a tiny private school, so we all knew each other quite well, though this girl left after 10th grade). Somehow it was not all that shocking, really.

monitor, you have mail. And now I'm hungry. :rolleyes:

Morning box. Busy morning. :rolleyes:

I wish it was 98 with 100% humidity here. Serious. I think I'm part iguana or something.

I believe you're looking for PHX. Well, not year 'round. PHX is actually pretty nice during the winter. The past two Christmases have been lovely. But I nearly refuse to go there between April and October. 119 during the day with a low temperature of 101 is not my cup of tea.

:D maybe not something you want to lay a "claim to fame" about!!!

I once taught a class, and one of the girls in the class was a best friend of one of the "bachelorette" girls - Jen someone or other who apparently had been dumped on the bachelor or something similar. Anyway, this girl had appeared on Jen's bachelorette show in a "girls night out" in Manhattan. She said everything was so horribly scripted, even to the extent that when Jen was supposed to be "kissing" the guy participant, the crew would be running up and moving her arms to certain positions, and combing her hair, etc.

Why, oh why, do people put themselves into these situations! Guess it's the fame, fortune and glory ...:confused:

Yes. A really good friend of mine lives in Gilbert (PHX), and he loves it, except when it is in the low 100's every day for weeks on end in the summer. But, as I always say to him with a cheeky grin: "But, Jeff, it's a dry heat ....." :D

Wouldn't really want to live in PHX though. Would prefer Austin, Texas (my fave) or maybe I could go for San Diego, but the cost of living there is way too high for my liking.

Alas, I am tethered to New Jersey. Sigh :eek:

Summer of 2000 in Austin was nightmarish. We had multi-day stretches of high 100s, with lows of 95 or so. I recall getting into my car one day after work and seeing the car thermometer read 126 (official temperatures are taken in the shade). Also, it doesn't feel right sweating like a madman on your balcony at midnight.

Want me to make you a mushroom omelette .... or perhaps a nice cheese soup ....

When I was going to school in LBB I would run during the summer just fine. If I try to do the same thing in IAH, I feel like I'm breathing water. Humidity is a terrible thing.

3,500 feet of elevation and being on the leeward side of the Rockies does wonders for the humidity.

Whew! Even 126 is a bit high for my liking.

I remember a visit to Abu Dhabi back in 1988. I was staying with friends for a few weeks. Coming from cold, miserable, drizzly England, it was lovely to see temps of over 110-115 each day.

My friends would laugh at me as I got up every morning and would say "looks like it's going to be warm today ..." and retorted "every effing day is warm, it never ends ...." I couldn't understand why they were so ambivalent about the heat, until my third week and I was wishing for a cool breeze!!!