MikeL

Best wishes, Wayne.

It's 108°F here today. The forecast calls for 111°F on Saturday and Sunday. Hot, hot, hot!

If I may be permitted, I would state your question in a different way: Is the label "bisexual" a new form of closet? A closet with glass doors?

iatramelia (medical negligence)

Is that you?

seersucker

typhlophile (one who is kind to the blind)

Cool! Thanks, Chase.

I appreciate your tribute to age and experience. I'm pleased to still be here. As the old joke goes, "At my age, I am pleased to be anywhere."

Happy Birthday, Wen!

Great story, Dave! A love story/mystery is not often seen here. It was a nice change. I'll be looking forward to your next story. Newt Becker is a genius.

The next post will be number 4,000 in the series. anacampserote (something which can bring back a lost love)

That's why you no longer live in Boston.

Anders Celsius wasn't an American. When I was in elementary school - 60 years ago - we used all the metric system measurements in our science classes in the certain knowledge that the US would soon convert from the British standard to metric. It has never happened. Metric is used almost exclusively in science and medicine - all my pills are in milligrams - but in the everyday world we hold onto the old standard. It's one of the few British things we really cling to. Despite all our technological advances, we haven't decided - our politicians haven't decided for us - to make the switch. I understand the British have switched as part of their EU membership. The US isn't the only western nation which uses Fahrenheit; there's Cayman Islands and Belize. It's really no big deal; it's easy to convert from Fahrenheit to Celsius: [°C] = ([°F] − 32) × 5⁄9 Now that I think of it, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit wasn't American either.

You wouldn't know it from the temperatures we've had the last two months, but summer has only now arrived in the northern hemisphere. It's the Summer Solstice, the longest day of the year. It's always amazed me that all the hot weather in July and August occurs as the days are growing shorter. Doesn't seem logical somehow. Keeping cool in Music City... Hope you have a great summer.

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Sadist!

But, Bob, you are not to be pitied. Your accomplishments are many as is the number of friends you have. The fact that you remain so productive in your 84th year is not pitiable at all.

I have no fear of pink. Looking good, Matt.

Here it is:

Welcome back, Eric.

Ubiquitous

They misspelled "Treat". How about this street sign?

When I was in my mid-30s, I looked younger than that. Now that I'm twice that age, not so much.