The thermometer's rising, by 6:00 AM my car's unlivable, it's the search for AC and Shade. Wake, drenched in sweat, the sun warming the oven. For a few days there's been the hint, promise of rain, but the forecast for the next week has nothing, merely 30+ degree temperatures, and all this heading into the July long weekend...
This is going to be a long summer, and yet too brief given the number of bills I have yet to pay.
5 more days until my next day off, 10 more weeks until I wrestle some portion of my life back from this, and then - too quickly thereafter, unemployment, and the game is to pay all the bills outstanding and upcoming before the famine begins...