Well here I am visiting the in-laws in Broward in mid-August, when the humidity and the temperature always adds up to 200. Meanwhile, back home in Santa Cruz they add up to 100.
Noteworthy is the density of presidential ads on local TV here in the Lauderdale area, every commercial break has at least one soft, fuzzy, and hopeful Bush spot followed by a tough but even more hopeful pro-Kerry DNC or 527 ad. Before I sat down to write this I saw three 527 ads in one 3 minute break, two anti-Bush. It's like the background noise of insects in the swamp, so pervasive and ubiquitous it fades out of hearing after a day or too.
Soon I am off to Miami to catch the Marlins-Cardinals game. Of course unlike SF or St. Louis, here I was able to buy tickets six rows behind the Cards dugout on the day of the game. And the good beer is only $5 instead of the $7.50 they get at Pac Bell.
Summer baseball in the heat! I know you guys envy me back home, right?