Thursday miscellanea #296

• We’re headed for a second consecutive summer with no 100-degree reading anywhere in Alabama, which has never happened before.
• Nathan attended his first Wednesday night youth group meeting yesterday. Tomorrow he will start the seventh grade. I don’t understand. I just saw him being born, like, two years ago.
• Terminator 5 just finished shooting and will be out next summer. Apparently it is called Terminator: Genisys. Net buzz is a bit scattered. Some people refer to it as a reboot, while others refer to it as a sequel (“the fifth installment”). I really hope it’s the latter. I think only Star Wars needs a reboot less than Terminator.
• Oh, and apparently Blade Runner 2 is a thing too. I’m not paying enough attention. Blade Runner doesn’t need a sequel, but Ridley Scott seems to be attached to it, which gives me some hope.
• Alabama state troopers have a program in which they ride with truck drivers, then rat out your misbehavior to another trooper in a cruiser up the road a piece who then pulls you over. Solid lane discipline born of meaningful driver certification would solve most of these problems, but until that day comes, watch yourself. Smokey might be in that cab-over Freightliner.
• I have made a solid date with a Carolina Reaper. Watch for a post, probably this weekend.
• Labor Day weekend is a boys’ weekend around here, because Lea will be out of town. It’s the first football weekend. The last 2014 IndyCar race is that Saturday night, too. Good times. Three weeks and change, baby.
• I’m not sure I’m staying with Orange Is the New Black. I watched all of the first season pretty quickly, but the second season is about out of gas for me at episode three or four. My friend Nancy is after me to watch Luther next so we can talk about it. I might just go with that now.

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