Welcome to the new Normal! So glad you selfish assholes, namely the Greatest Generation and Boomers, who continued to favor cheap gasoline, we are having the super-hot weather a month early! The added bonus is how you can’t escape it by fleeing to other parts of the US or Canada! Here’s our annual Austin Heat Wave Bingo card courtesy of Evil MoPac. I can’t wait for the first rolling blackouts Texas will be having since ERCOT didn’t do shit to fix the grid after a few hundred people died in February 2021. If you don’t recall, the majority of Texas disconnected from the US under Dubious Bush in the Nineties and suddenly, it will be California experiencing schadenfreude when our major cities can’t have the AC on from 3-5 PM! Once again proving, Kapitalism doesn’t work when there is no regulation to punish its moral failures and its proponents are disciples of Ayn Rand and Neutron Jack Welch.
What is my plan? Since I have to do the hybrid schedule with work until the latest CV-19 strand unravels it, I should be pretty good on those three out of five days. My employer has solar panels to power the lion’s share and with the campus not being at capacity any day, I figure it will pull through. Besides, there are back-up diesel generators to get the critical systems until the main stuff returns. You can tell when they’re on. They’re audible from great distances. My at-home days should be decent thanks to the new HVAC system plus I can bump it up a couple degrees Centigrade when Jennifer is out of the house…or not looking to pull us through the peak AC times.
All this makes me really look forward to my upcoming birthday weekend at Kalahari, an in-door waterpark over in Round Rock. No need for oily sunscreen! No sunburn concerns! Best of all, we can crash in the hotel room that night and not sweat the car ride home.
Good luck to us all this Summer and the near future, we’re so going to need it. Imaginary Friends in the Sky won’t fix it.