Calling Martha and the Vandellas

Welp, so we've got a heat advisory in effect from noon today until 7 PM Thursday. Temperatures above 90F, triple-digit heat index, and the possibility of small thunderstorms.

Fortunately, all of my classes are in the same building as my office, so once I'm at work I'll be in A/C comfort. Unfortunately, my TTh class lets out at 1:45, so I'll be going home in the thick of it.

It is, after all, still summer in these parts.

Back and Forth

If you write dates the USAn way, this is palindrome week-and-a-half; every day from today until the 19th is palindromic. (9/10/19, 9/11/19, ...) There won't be another of these until early in the next century.

Gracie, Come Home!

When I got home from work today, neither of the dogs greeted me at the door. I found Buster curled up on my bed, but Gracie is nowhere to be seen. The people who mow my lawn left the back gate unsecured, and it was wide open. I suspect that Buster also got out, but after a good romp around the neighborhood came back home. Gracie... is not that smart.

I quartered the neighborhood, but saw no sign of her, and the few people I saw outside (Heat Advisory, remember?) hadn't seen her either. I just put in a call to the police; that's my only real hope, unless Gracie somehow finds her way back.

I'll probably be ticketed for "letting a dog run loose"; I was warned the last time this happened. (The mowing people are usually good about securing the gate, but once in a long while they goof up.)

All I can do now is wait.

Lost and Found

The call to the police did the trick; they called back after maybe twenty minutes, and just now delivered her to my doorstep. No ticket, either. :fingers crossed: