Dear President Biden, It’s still way, way too hot in way, way too many places but yesterday Seattle was overcast and the high was somewhere in the mid-70’s (it was comfortable enough and I was busy enough with work that I didn’t check my NWS app at all). I actually cooked dinner last night and …
Some extreme heat lessons
Dear President Biden, I hope today is the last day I feel compelled to give you a read out on the previous day’s high temperature – we’ll see. Today’s forecast is for 91 and this morning’s cool-feeling, breezy-ish 74 nearly brought both Laura and I to tears. After finally topping out at 108 yesterday, I …
It’s not the misery of the moment….
Dear President Biden, According to my NWS phone app we hit 104 yesterday late afternoon. At least that’s the high that was indicated when I checked around 5pm, at which point it had dropped to a mere 100. Later, however, the app listed the high as 102. Who the hell knows? Whatever the high was, …
We share this place
Dear President Biden, So, we topped out at 100 yesterday. The forecast for today is 99 but since yesterday was only supposed to get to 91, I’m thinking we’re likely to blow past 99. We’ll see. Before I got up this morning Laura did all sorts of things to mitigate the heat build up – …
Turning up the AC isn’t the answer
Dear President Biden, I’m writing to you in our very noisy (due to multiple fans), very dim (due to most of the windows being covered up to block the heat and NO lights on), cave-like office space where we’re holing up trying to stay reasonably not-burning-up hot. First thing this morning we went for a …
A squirrel missive
Dear President Biden, Congratulations on the (still theoretical) bipartisan agreement on the hard infrastructure package. Hopefully Mitch McConnell won’t find a way to torpedo it and hopefully all of the Democrats will hold together to support it. I know there’s a lot more sausage making that’s going to happen on this agreement as well as …
Inflatable Uncle Sams R US
Dear President Biden, I bet you’re pretty toasty at this point. Maybe crispy is a better descriptor if your fussiness with that CNN reporter is any indication of how ready you are to get back state side so you can sleep in your (sort of) own bed. Since I don’t have the patience or energy …
Rosy gaslighting is still gaslighting
Dear President Biden, This isn’t at all what I was going to start today’s letter with, but I just saw “my” first butterfly of the season. The dogs and I are waiting in the car while Laura does our grocery shopping and a quite large, quite bright yellow butterfly just fluttered by across the way …
Rainstorms and turkeys
Dear President Biden, Laura’s brother visited us this past weekend to celebrate her birthday. He lives in Atlanta now and at one point yesterday afternoon he remarked that the rainstorm we were having sure didn’t seem like Seattle rain, that it was much more like Atlanta rain since it was pretty much a deluge. And …
Karma bits
Dear President Biden, In honor of the beginning of Pride month, I thought I’d share a relevant, personal karma-tale and then highlight an additional relevant, out-in-the-wider-world karma-tale I read about in the WP this morning. So here goes…. I don’t know if you’ve been following the weather across the country, but if you have been …
The Biden Letters 