Greetings from the surface of the sun, a.k.a. KC, MO, where the temperature is a balmy 98 degrees. A couple of weeks ago I had the fortune of journeying home to visit my parents in North Carolina. I took them on all sorts of adventures like tubing down a river, playing disc golf in the middle of nowhere (and that's compared to Waynesville, which is already close to the middle of nowhere), and taking a Segway tour of the North Carolina Arboretum.

The best part, though, was that it was mostly bearable outside. Here, walking from one building to another at work feels like a scene from Lawrence of Arabia (although blissfully shorter and with slightly more women). It's not looking so good for the anti-global-warming crowd, since people often confuse global climate trends with the current weather outside. The good news is, Waynesville is nestled in the mountains, a few thousand feet above the new sea level when Antarctica melts. The bad news is, there's no Best Buy.

Posted by: Brian at July 19, 2006 9:30 AM