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Melting Bananas, My Phone Roams, and the RNC

My apartment gets hot.  If I were smart I would start renting it out as a Bikram Yoga studio.  I am at the point where I hibernate in my bedroom with the AC unit.  To demonstrate just how hot it is, I purchased bananas 3 days ago.  They melted.  Actual mush for produce that had been sitting on the counter for 3 days.  I've never seen anything like it.

My mailbox says I have one unread email.  I have been through every mailbox.  Twice. There are no unread emails.  I feel like it is one of those April Fool's pranks that Google pulls only it last all year for me.

I got myself a new phone plan recently.  Same provider.  Different plan.  The service is so much worse.  I'm not even sure how that happens, but I get voicemails 12 hours after they are left and service cuts out.  It even has me "roaming" like I am using a car phone from 1992.  

I'm not sure what to say about the first night of the Republican National Convention.  I mean, Duck Dynasty and Charles in Charge don't exactly scream "Make America Safe Again", but I guess that's why I'm not a Republican strategist.  Funny thing is that Charles in Charge or the lawyer from Arrested Development was asked by Donald Trump to speak at the convention a week before the event.  A week.  Talk about grasping at straws.  I'm not saying I have my schedule mapped out to the minute, but you would think that someone would have said, "Hey guys, we have this really big event coming up and we need speakers.  Think we should get on this?" perhaps a couple months out.  Just a thought.

On that note: all I am saying is that if professors at EVERY COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY in the U.S. have access to plagiarism software, don't you think the RNC could have run their speeches through something similar?  There must be an app for that.






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