It is Friggin' Hot Here!


You could have fooled me that there's no consensus on Global Warming. Not only are they dying of heatstroke in the midwest and the east coast, but now they're going to start dying in Europe, too. Oh, and there was another tsunami. Bush to world: "Move along. Nothing to see here."

At any rate, it's 90 degrees here in Oakland, which for us is major. So, VPL and I came upon the brilliant idea of getting her a kiddie pool yesterday morning. Now, keep in mind, it never really gets all that hot out here, and every place I called needed a definition of "kiddie pool" before they could see if they had one. Nevertheless, people were snatching them up like crazy. We went to five different places and couldn't fine one. On my way to Target, I talked to a salesperson who sounded like he was in a warzone ("Yeah, we have 'em, but they're shopping the hell out of us here!") before he cut off.

Anyhow, VPL, Uncles Dan and Chris and I decided that we needed to find a solution. So we put Violet in an old metal ice bucket. Since this is Northern California, she went in naked.