88 degrees at 10 in the morning ... in November

What the !@#%$ is going on out there, people? Too hot. Hotter then yesterday, when it was still hot and we spent the day painting the house (actually the priming before the painting, which occurs after the scraping but that's inside baseball). So some time in the next few weeks, we'll have 1/4 of the house painted ... but it will be the 1/4 that faces the street.

The day before, we had a run-in with Hello Kitty at the Fashion Square Mall. Everybody at the Hello Kitty store (real name Sanrio Surprises ... but who calls it that?) knows who we are. Do you really want to go where everybody knows your name? Only if beverages are involved.