Ugh...

After a freaky cool and dry spell for the first week or so of July, more typical Midwestern summer weather has arrived, with daily highs in the high eighties (and sometimes into the low nineties) and humidity like a sauna. I console myself with the fact that it only really lasts a couple weeks here instead of a couple months like back home.

I'm torn right now because we are already past the coolest part of the day, and it's plenty muggy out there already, but it's still not yet nine o'clock and therefore a little early for my bike ride. See, between nine AM, when everybody's gotten to work or school or whatever, and eleven AM, when the fat part of the lunch hour wave starts to crest, the side streets of Broad Ripple are fairly empty and you can even manage to cross Kessler Boulevard without much of a wait.

It's going to be like breathing through a wet towel whenever I go today, but the wet towel is getting hotter by the hour...