Headline writers go wild.

So when this appears on my Star Tribune newsfeed:

Scott County preparing for hot times

..it makes you wonder. Last time I checked, Scott County wasn't exactly well-known for its "hot times." Of course I had to click on it...

Hey, Eric -- when do you get to go play on this tower?

Googlebomb time!

Is Barack Obama Muslim?

your oven is a dry heat, too

So yesterday was supposed to be the hottest day of the year so far. Of course, what do I have to do? Play in a golf tournament for work, that's what. We sponsored a tournament at Castlewood Country Club in Pleasanton. Tee time was 12:30pm, right during the heat of the day. The high in Pleasanton yesterday was 103. No amount of iced towels, bottles of water, etc. can really help that any.

Today's even hotter. I picked up a couple steaks to grill this evening (hey, might not even need to use the grill!) and on the way down to the meat market, the car's thermometer hit 110.

To top it all off, there's this. This fire was less than two miles from our house. They're saying that wildfire season is going to start sooner this year (surprise.. it hasn't rained in six weeks and the next rain is expected in, oh, October or so.) Time to start with the active fire prevention around our place..

Welcome to summer in the Central Valley...

Back when football was football...

...a guy writing one blog post every six months would have been shot for posting pictures like this. My family is going to hell in a handbasket.

First this:

from Zimm's Blog

...so what's next? It's gotta be this:

mad Photoshop skillz, yo!

What's next? Eric eating mushrooms? Corey deciding that 99-cent-a-foot-linoleum from Menard's is the wave of the future? No, wait -- both of them going vegan! Yeah, that's it.

I move to California and all hell breaks loose. More updates to follow.