California

It has been in the high 90's for what seems like forever in the Sierra foothills, and the San Joachin Valley runs 7 to 10 degrees hotter. In the one-hundreds.

For reasons of isolation, living in the woods and long drives to do anything, I plan to move near the coast soon. I lived in the SF Bay area for 30 years. My "Walden; or, Life in the Woods" experiment has been interesting (but no lake adjoining the home). Thoreau missed partying with the Emersons and others, I am sure, so he called it a day.

People in the Central Valley do have it a lot worse.

I was hoping that this heat wave would be the last of the year, but I suspect that it won't.

Spending my IRA money on electric bills.