It's hot here in Vancouver at the moment. Tampa hot. Which is the same as too hot. In fact, to expand on the theme, it's too damn hot! If I'd thrown an egg at this wall? It would have been fried, sunny side up, before it had a chance to begin to ooze toward the ground. We're dyin' here, I tell ya!

Of course, anyone with half a brain would have been at the beach, right? Not wandering around the pavement of downtown, looking for things to photograph? Yeah, well...

Aaaaand, this just in...Yep, more evidence that there's something seriously wrong, I.Q.-wise, in Texas: "In Dallas, a 42-year-old homeless man was arrested for "harassing a public servant with a deadly weapon" - a fancy way of saying he spit on a cop. Because Willie Campbell was HIV-positive, he was jailed for 35 years, even though there has never been a documented case of the AIDS virus being transmitted by saliva." That's from Sunday's on-line edition of the Globe and Mail. Do you think maybe their cowboy hats are on just a little too tight?

Or is it their jeans? See, this is what happens when you're reluctant to shut down the computer for the night, and wind up looking for just one more interesting thing. Yep, more information on that little gun-totin' Texas town, Harrold. I'm thinking these folks are, um, different. First of all, the good people of an isolated, tiny Texas town are afraid of, um, "armed maniacs". I love this quote from the school superintendent: "We are 30 minutes from law enforcement. How long do you think it would take to kill all 150 of us? It would be a bloodbath." Yep, first place your armed maniac's gonna go - a town of less than 300 people. That'll get you the publicity, for sure. The other fascinating fact about the little town of Harrold is that population statistic - barely 300. Of whom 110 are 18 years of age or less (and, let's not forget, potential targets of that homicidal maniac). Almost half the town's population is school age? These folks, it strikes me, start their families darn young, don't you think?