My name is James. And I'm a sweater.

From the Austin Business Journal:

With the recent 100 degree-plus temps, this one may be hard to believe. But Austinites are reportedly less sweaty than people living in San Antonio, Houston and Dallas, according to Old Spice’s Top 20 All-Time Sweatiest Cities in America poll.

Austin was named the No. 23 sweatiest city, following San Antonio at No. 2, Dallas at No. 4 and Houston at No. 5.

Obviously the good people at Old Spice haven't met me. I alone would probably push Austin into the top 10.

Have a look at the complete list at msnbc.com. LA (Lower Alabama that is) checks in at #25 with Mobile, AL. And Jackson, MS is #26.

Minnesota Weather

This is the only time of the year I can brag about the superior weather in the great-white north. Here are our projections for the upcoming week. We have our hot days from time to time, but this tends to be more like the norm.

It's Hot

Feel like I'm out at Michael's place in the desert. JT, keep those 9V batteries coming...we need all the A/C we can get down here.

Hail Storm in Texas

Here in Central Texas we had a heavy hail storm yesterday afternoon.  Plenty of reports and pictures on our local news sites of golf and tennis ball sized hail.  At my office we only got heavy rain and wind so my old truck was spared.  Here are some pics around my house after I got home (about 30 mins after the hail ended).

This last one is of my bathroom skylight (despite the blurriness of the picture).  I have two skylights and both of them have holes in them now, but luckily only the outer pane was damaged at my house.  

John wasn't quite so lucky.  His new truck was sitting in the driveway during the storm.  And I believe all three of his skylights were damaged with one actually breaking both panes causing him to have water coming through from the rain.  You can calm down though...das boots were safely in their hard-sided carrying case so they were not damaged.

Perfect timing since we are trying to get out of here today to head to Founders Day.