06/11:  Song of the Day.  Van Halen–Ice Cream Man

Well at long last our late spring heat wave has broken (I shouldn’t even remind everyone that it’s not even officially summer yet).  And not a minute too soon either.  I was just on the verge of going completely bonkers.  I can stand the cold but the heat and the humidty you can keep. 

Not having an air-conditioner meant that there was little I could do to get away from the near 100 degree temperatures and the heat indexes well over the century mark.  My only comforts were the occassional cold shower, the early morning hours between six and nine a.m., and a couple scoops of vanilla chocolate chip ice cream.  As they say “I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream”.  They probably heard me screaming all the way in Crozet.  Here’s one for the Ice Cream Man. »Read More

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