Utah has what Suzi's going through. God bless shade.

The forecast here has the next five days of low eighties and rain. Right now it's 83 and not raining yet, though it looks like it's going to start soon. I've been looking at some pictures that my friends in PA posted, and there's a lot of flooding there.

Today the high was 96 with a heat index well over 100 and the humidity is somewhere over 60%. IDEHTW. Only three more months to go of summer... time to stock up on powdered Gatorade. When your sweat doesn't taste salty, it seems like a bad sign.

The nurse recommended I eat lots of bananas and drink OJ for potassium. So I guess now I need to go to the grocery store. any other potassium rich foods I should consider?

Low-sodium V8 juice has 480mg per serving (4oz IIRC) because the tomatoes and other veggies have some and they also use potassium chloride instead of sodium chloride for salty flavor. You might ponder laying in stock of No-Salt or Nu-Salt which is a potassium-based table salt. When I had a potassium deficiency in Arizona, I could plow through 10,000mg per day (in the heat, riding my bike to work) and I ended up adding No-Salt to every thing I ate and most of what I drank. I got used to salty-tasting iced tea, and I still don't care to have it sweet. Dried apricots are full of potassium-y goodness, as are kiwi.

It's been summer storms galore here, usually late afternoon, as people are leaving work. since I tend to leave late, I have missed most of it, luckily.

I really don't like V8 juice, but I may look at the V8 Fruit juice blend drink they make and see if the sodium to potassium content.

And I'll look for No Salt and add that.

Thanks so much for the advice.

It's cool outside so I thought I'd open the windows, but they are closed again. The neighbors little boys are playing and the youngest deals with frustration or confusion by screeching. At first I was worried they were fighting then I could here the older one ask what was wrong "you touched my car!" "I can't find my car".

I'm ready to amputate my stupid foot. I finally heard back from my doctor's office and got a referral to a local podiatrist. I called that office to discover that it had closed on Wednesday. The doctor has another office not to far away so I called them and the earliest appointment available is July 12th. Arrrrrggggg.

I called my doc's office to tell them about the office change and to ask if there is another place they can refer me to that might have an earlier appointment.

I just went out to brunch with a bunch of vegan friends, which was fun. Two of them have toddlers, so it was a bit overwhelming -- they're both not quite 2, so just a little too young to really deal with sitting down through a whole meal. One of them ate a handful of margarine. I also learned that the vegan toddler word for tofu is "fufu." (This was a pancake house, so OK with toddlers being a little bit rowdy, but not quite a running-around place like a fast food restaurant might be.)

So I found out the results of my Dad's cancer biopsy for the place on his ear.

It is cancer, but it's the "good kind" of skin cancer and they they got most of it, but he's going to go back and they'll remove the rest of it and then do another test to make sure.

According to Dad the doctor thinks they can get it all removed and it hasn't spread.