The last week has been cooler than our first month in Tucson.  The threat of monsoons is still there every day but we only get one every four or five days.

Hundreds and hundreds of spam messages have made their way into my comments.  I am deleting them sometimes as quickly as they appear.  I don't know how to block an entire country from accessing my website.  Either way, it's easy enough to make it look as if you're accessing a site from any country.  Spam cannot be stopped.

So drastic measures had to be taken.  Here's how it will go down:

My site has been getting hit harder and harder with spam.  I'm not sure how to handle it.  If you are on my page and there are any unusual comments with links, don't click on them.  But you know that already.

So I've been out of work for a full month now.  It's a strange feeling.  With Erin's non-traditional schedule I can't tell what day of the week it is.  If it were cooler, I would lose track of time.  I can tell when daytime is because it is much warmer.

Speaking of heat, I've decided that I don't turn on the air conditioning until the inside temperature reaches 90 degrees.  And even then, it depends on the wetness of the couch/my clothes etc..  When I turn the air conditioning on and the sun is still up, it does not cool the apartment.  It only prevents the inside temperature from going up further until it the sun goes down or until a monsoon hits.

We had our first monsoon of the year (and my first ever) on Monday, the fourth of July.  Rain fell hard and fast and it was over as quick as it started.  It only lasted about an hour.  After the rain, Erin and I went down to the usually dry river bed and watched water pouring from the flood drains into the main river.

Happy birthday!