record heat

111 here yesterday, one degree off the all-time record.

Retreat to the coast wasn't much of an improvement- it topped 100 at the beaches.
My Plan B fantasy of incarnating a British officer during the Raj, stoically confronting the heat with gin & tonics and contempt for the wogs, didn't pass muster with the wife.

So we were routed by nature and the day became a desperate quest for air conditioning.

After hopping around with varied, generally unsatisfactory results, and with both our tethers fraying, we said "fuck it!" and got a hotel.

Today isn't as horrid- work is a bit stuffy but bearable.
Tonight we'll probably head off to the coast again to reprise our wading pool idyll at the in-laws.