Is August Looking Up?

There was a glimmer of good news yesterday.  The local weather guy—Jim Spencer, who is alternately reviled and worshiped in this house—said that the high pressure ridge over Texas is weakening, which means our triple digits will be closer to 100 instead of 105 this week.  That's almost normal for August!  Could things be looking up?

And in addition to that, I've got a new book coming out on Tuesday.  This is a slightly different sort of contemporary than I have written before.  The idea for this