Stick a fork in me and turn me over. I'm done.
This is crazy. The ice cream melts before I get home, the butter turns into a soupy pool and the dog is tripping over his tongue. There's a memorable Ray Bradbury line in the movie It Came From Outer Space when the exasperated Sheriff of the small Arizona desert town says to the main character, "Did you know, Putnam, that more murders are committed at 92 degrees Fahrenheit than any other temperature? I read an article once, lower temperatures people are easy-going, over 92 is too hot to move, but just 92, people get irritable!" I don't know if that applies to Socorro or not. Fortunately, Socorro murders are far and few between, but I can understand the character's sentiment. Regardless of climate change or global warming, Socorro's summer weather remains true to form. When you live in the northern Chihuahuan Desert you get used to this kind of thing and take everything in stride. Just hunker down and make sure you remember to clean the filter on that swamp coo...