It’s late July. It’s been really hot out all month. Almost every day over ninety degrees, many close to a hundred. I’ve been watering the lawn most every day, and trimming and edging continues unabated. We went to the beach last Friday. It was a good time, despite warnings about sharks attacking swimmers, and the ocean being unusually rough. It took alot of effort just to get past the breakers and swim for even a few minutes. Luckily no one got eaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In other news, Lizzy got a raise and promotion at her job, and went out and bought a new car, a VW SUV. She got pretty lucky and found the exact model she wanted, available and at a reasonable price. So I bought back from her her old car, a Toyota Camry that she drove thru high school and college, and that I’d given her as a graduation present. Now Michelle has a car to take to school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been trying to schedule another gig for my band, but everyone is going to be out on vacation a different week in August, so it’ll have to slide into September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve been working on music in the studio.\u00a0\u00a0I have two songs, Slope and My Ol’ Brokedown Truck, that are close to finished.\u00a0\u00a0I recorded real drums for them last night, since I can’t re-create the sound of brushes with midi and samples. Sounding real good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s late July. It’s been really hot out all month. Almost every day over ninety degrees, many close to a hundred. I’ve been watering the lawn most every day, and trimming and edging continues unabated. We went to the beach last Friday. It was a good time, despite warnings about sharks attacking swimmers, and the ocean being unusually rough. It took … Continue reading “Here Comes That Heat Wave”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5343\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}