HOT

It's only April 1, and already the temperature is near 90...makes me scared for the rest of the summer. (How global warming is disputed by so many people is an entirely different post). After last summer, I have officially had it with the ridiculous heat. 

Before you fine readers of mine start to grumble that summer is supposed to be hot, let me say this...I grew up in central Illinois and for almost every summer which I was old enough to work (this means 13 or 14 since I grew up in a farming community, and the agriculture industry plays by different rules) I had outside jobs.  This means manual labor...in the heat.  I know what hot is, and I know what it is to work in the heat. I get it, you're going to sweat, it's going to be painful at times, it's almost never pleasant...but on the upside you get a good tan. 

But after last summer, something snapped.  I had finally had enough.  Enough of the constant humidity, enough of never being 100% comfortable, enough of dreading fun events (like baseball games) because the heat would suck all the fun out of it.

So you've been officially warned summer...you better not suck again this year.