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High 80s and sunny. I used to do pictures on this thing so why not do one again.

Mid 80's, cloudy and humid.  Storms are coming. Did you hear about the new corduroy pillow craze?  It's making headlines.

High 70s and cloudy. I've never seen Game of Thrones.

Mid 70's and partly sunny. Air conditioning exists in Europe.  Sort of.  It's more of a notion, an idea, a rumor.  In my recent travels  I was fortunate that the weather was mild, mid 60s to mid 70s most days and even dipping into the 50s at night on the cooler days.  See I'm a cold room kind of guy when it comes to sleep.  A room gets to be above say, 70 degrees and I have a hard time sleeping.  The good news here is that unlike some of my other habits and lifestyle choices I'm on the right side of science with this one . In the parts of Europe that I've been (a fair amount actually) the locals are mystified by the American need for things to be cold.  The air conditioning in a lot of places is barely a whisper of slightly cool air even when the fan level is cranked to the max.  Water in restaurants?  Room temperature unless you ask for ice and as soon as you do you'll be pegged as an American if your accent didn't give it away al...

Mid 60s and cloudy. Back in the late-mid 20th century (well, what do you call the 1970s?  Is it the late 20th century or the middle?  Let's go with the late part of the middle) people used to get together after vacations, shut off the lights and watch slide shows of their adventures.  I'm not talking about Powerpoint here, I'm talking about  slide shows in their original meaning.  Slides were small translucent photographs that you dropped into a projector, in the case of my family a fancy carousel slide projector and that machine shined (shone?) a light through the translucent photograph and a magnifying glass creating a giant image of the photograph on a screen or wall. This was, I suppose, social media decades before social media and emphasis on the social because some folks would not only have their family gather round to watch the slide show but would have friends over as well.  There would be cigarettes and drinks, maybe some snacks and everyone r...

68 and cloudy.  Rained earlier. In that hopeful post-travel phase right now.  You know the one.  It's the one where you come back from a couple weeks where you went somewhere else and did other things (it doesn't really matter where you went or what you did for the purposes of this phenomenon) and you think you're going to do things differently once you're home.  The travel has changed you, made you grow a little.  Taught you something.  Maybe even made you a new person if the trip was particularly eventful or memorable. Then you come home, sit in the same stupid traffic and go back to the same workplace grind and all your habits are there, waiting for you like expectant hungry children.   Reminding you that no, real life is not what you experience during travel, it;'s what goes on during the long grey grinding everyday unremembered nothing that makes up the overwhelming amount of time that we spend here.  You're still the same guy or gal you ...

High 70s and sunny. Busy weekend getting ready to go places.