not all that far by the way from Death Valley, have until today or so been hovering around

117 degrees every day. Now, my response to this is multiple. One, I don't live without air conditioning.

So I go out and hug my five-ton air conditioner, and moreover,

I've taken the posture that if I can't travel, which I can't in these kind of temperatures,

for any number of reasons, including pets and all that sort of stuff, I'm going to ignore the heat.

So my posture has been to stay up until well after the sun has come up in the morning, and then like a bat, sleep all day long, until about five or so

in the afternoon, and then awaken to begin my strange and

nocturnal activities in other words i won't have anything to do with it when it's 117 degrees

outside you can't do anything i mean really you're better off not moving around not turning

on lights not turning on appliances in other words you're better off not moving around, not turning on lights, not turning on appliances.

In other words, you're better off asleep.

Like the astronauts trying to make it back to Earth without enough power in Apollo 13, you know,

you're better off just going to sleep.

That's what we've been doing.

So I'm rather wide awake.

It's really morning for me right now.

Morning in my part of America. All right. Now, tonight's webcam, you may think you've seen it.

It was a picture of our... You know, we have a new kitten in the house. Dusty. Dusty has grown really big. Dusty is now real long.

And I had a picture of Dusty up there, but see another thing happened on the way during the heat.

This is an interesting story.

I have a radio tower, as you all more than well know, in my backyard, a hundred footer, big one.

And at about the 80-foot level of this large tower, some starlings decided,

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