Heatery

[rejectomorph]

I forgot to make iced tea again, so I'm drinking beer instead. It's Sierra Nevada's Summerfest, a nice, piss-colored lager that's only available this time of year. Most of the year I only drink their porter, which is so dense that it qualifies as a separate course at dinner. The Summerfest is much lighter, and has a nice, tangy flavor suitable to the season. It's one of the few beers I'm willing to drink by itself. The beer's local popularity, and the fact that the brewery is only a dozen miles away guarantees freshness, too, and it's about two bucks a six pack cheaper here than it is anywhere farther away. Despite all this, and the fact that I'm enjoying it, I wish I'd remembered to make the iced tea.

No relief from the heat is in sight. Summer looms ahead like a perilous desert that must be crossed. Enraptured, I'm bound to follow a misleading path to some mirage and end up being swallowed by quicksand. I'd rather be sailing. Better to be lured by a siren's song and crash on the rocks than to suffocate in a dessicated symbol of passing time.

In the last hour, everyone in the house has sustained multiple mosquito bites. I expect that West Nile Virus will kill us all now. Maybe I ought to finish off that six pack before the symptoms set in.

Comments

[eideteker.livejournal.com]

Shirley, you've seen this?

[rejectomorph]

Frank the Goat moods, yes. Cute, but not cute enough to induce me to start using mood icons. They don't have a Dazed and Confused mood, anyway. That's the one I'm in most of the time.

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

We only get East Nile Virus here.

[rejectomorph]

East Nile Virus is a wuss. It never kills anybody. It never gets headlines. It's going to die alone in a pigeon and nobody will go to its funeral.

It's so weak that...

[m-leprae.livejournal.com]

All the other virii kick DNA into its membranes.

[annina-writes.livejournal.com]

I don't think I could survive down here without AC, even the window kind. Mosquitos are nasty these days. I didn't think West Nile Virus had gotten out your way. :-(