Day 195: Gorky Park on the Potomac
At last, the heat broke! Huzzah! Interestingly, in breaking, it shattered. That is to say, we have been running below normal in terms of temperature, even to the point of nearly sundering an all-time low temperature for August. How wonderful. 😀 Unfortunately, NOAA, or what is left of it, is predicting a well-above normal August through October. Around these parts, that is known as an "Indian Summer", which is to say a summer that refuses to leave. It is what we had last year, too. Sadly. 🔽🔽🔽🔽🔽 Ironically, it is during these not-so-august days of August that I found myself watching a snowy Cold War thriller called Gorky Park . Of late, I have been in a Cold War mindset. Perhaps it is due to the excellent Underground '80s music channel via soma.fm , but I suspect it really has to do with the raging hot war in central Europe, aka the Russo-Ukrainian War, combined with an American presidency that is historic not for its alleged successes as much as for i...