You know it’s going to be hot and sweltering here in Baltimore when the temperature is reading 92 in the shade and it’s only 9:30 in the morning.  I was going to take a short walk to the store to get some hot dogs but decided to just walk around the neighborhood a bit and then retreat to my air conditioning.  It wasn’t this bad in Mexico.  Puerto Vallarta is by the Pacific ocean, and hot as it got out in the streets, wherever you had shade a nice cool ocean breeze made things actually very lovely.  Here in the city all you get is the breeze off acres and acres of asphalt.

I have some Institute work to do to meet a deadline next week so I was planning on staying inside this weekend anyway.   I had to boot the Windows XP drive I hadn’t touched in over a year and I’ve been spending time between coding updating this and that on it.  It feels…strange…to have to refer to the mounted drives as letters again.   But I have Cygwin installed so I can still do most things in a terminal the way I’m now used to.  I actually used to love running Windows.  But that was back when it’s quirks were tolerable, and there was still a Microsoft Basic to code in.  Those were good times…