Day Two Hundred Sixty Four...

How do you like this for a recurring theme...and remember...this is from the kinder, gentler Bill Evans. Traffic was moving along nicely this morning, and suddenly, we were stopped...and stopped again...and on-and-on. Finally, we got to where we could see the flashing lights ahead, in the left lanes, so everyone was merging into the right lanes. When we got to the fire truck with the cones all strung out and lights blazing, the three vehicles in the mishap were on the left shoulder of the road, out of the line of traffic and the only thing in the way of progress was the fire truck. Okay, for the benefit of the doubt, I am going to assume there is some policy there, but REALLY...

Made my way on into the offices of the Board of REALTORS where I was chairing an ethics hearing. The hearing lasted until after 2PM, at which time I headed on into the office and made myself useful for a while. I actually attended to a lot of business in a shore period of time, that is one of the benefits of showing up in the office on Saturday...you get wither caught up or ahead of the flow of business.

So...traffic was not good both going and coming...on the way home this afternoon, there was a car in the left hand lane of the Interstate, where there was not shoulder, looking like they were changing a flat. All traffic was again trying to merge into the right lanes, and it was not really working. Finally I got my zero cylinder car to go REALLY fast and cut off a guy in an 18 wheeler, but anyway, I was able to merge. Traffic was pretty much like that all the way home...a series of small inconveniences that caused havoc for drivers on a 40 mile stretch of the Interstate. I wonder what tomorrow will bring?

The wind has come up considerably, and the high temperature in Austin today was 99 degrees...just one degree short of the number we needed. We just need one more day at 100 degrees or better to officially be the hottest summer EVER RECORDED. I have no fear that we will NOT break the record...it is not really that unusual for us to hit 100 degrees in October, November or even December...we shall see what happens.

Just finished a yummy dinner, gonna go see if the pool is still simply 'refreshing' or 'extremely refreshing'. That is code for COLD!

Good deed...better place...Have Fun!