Well, it actually got up to 101 degrees here yesterday. That’s only the 10th time since they’ve been keeping records that we hit triple digits. I can’t say as it bothered me all that much. I was sequestered in my office all day, and it was kind of warm, but not too horrible with my fan blowing directly on me. It was a hot walk out to the car, but I parked where I knew it’d be in shade by the time I left, so it wasn’t too horrible.

Out at my place, it was a few degrees cooler, and there was a pretty brisk wind (that felt kind of like a blast furnace). But I was in the pool pretty quickly, and from there everything’s nice and cool. I only wish they made a “sports” Kindle that was waterproof so I could hang out in the water and read (not sure I trust a zip-lock bag). I’ll have to get with Amazon on that.

So, Mitt seems pretty adamant about not releasing any more tax returns. This seems pretty silly to me. As many others have said, we all know he’s rich and that rich people hate to pay taxes, so just release the damn things and be done with it (better to get it over with now, than in October).

His refusal to release more can only make everybody wonder if there isn’t some really twisted tax evasion shit going on there. Or who knows what? Maybe he lists some of Ann’s sister wives as dependents or something.

Mitt also doesn’t seem to want to talk about Bain Capital. I thought that was his big claim to being qualified to be Preznit. That, and the wonderful job he did for the Olympics in Utah that I don’t actually remember (and there’s some dispute as to just what I big hero the Mitt-man was). I guess Mitt it kind of the Guidi Ruliani of Salt Lake City.

He was Governor of godless Massachusetts, too. But that doesn’t help him with the rightwing wackos, and he can’t talk about his big accomplishment there, because he hates Obamacare (now). No Bain, no Romneycare, no tax returns, and, frankly, who gives a shit about the 2002 Olympics?

I mean, who cares about the Olympics in general? When they were only every four years (and when I was a kid), they were a pretty big deal. There were also only four teevee channels back then, and we had the godless Soviets (and their commie cohorts, the East Germans, whose women’s swimming teams always looked just a wee bit masculine) to hate and root against in the all-important medal count.

Now? Eh. There’s a summer or winter Olympics every couple of years, and there are 4,000 teevee channels with at least 348 sports channels. You can see every sort of obscure sport you want, any time you want. It’s just not much of a thrill (with the exception of women’s diving and volleyball competitions, of course).

Oh well, time to get back to work. A bit cooler today, thankfully.