@bjk3
Hi, Barb

Micro-ing? Hmm? Yes, that might do. Thank you!

Thank you also for saying my reply was an "upper." I try always to post "uppers," even when, on a morning like this, I'm not feeling particularly "up." I can hear some say that, when I'm not feeling "up," I needn't think I have to pretend that I'm "up." You see, though, it's not pretense. Nor is it denial. I know from a lifetime of experience that if I can only "imagine" myself as being "up," in half an hour or three-quarters of an hour I will genuinely be "up," and with luck (and good stiff tailwind) I'll remain "up" for most of the day. I suppose you might say that it's a way of tricking ourselves. In the theater, we called it using a psychological gesture. The first time I came across psychological gestures I was playing Algernon in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and my first entrance onstage required that I be "bursting with life" (the director's words). Well, I didn't always feel like I was "bursting with life." The director suggested that I try a psychological gesture: while waiting offstage, fill my lungs and throw my arms skyward, fill my body with "Hurrah!" and envision myself as just having won gold in an Olympic marathon––NOW come onstage! I realize that's a rather grandiose way of explaining why I always try to be "up," but heck, what's wrong with a little grandiosity among friends? LOL

So you're getting the rain, but not the cool. And you've humidity to boot. You've my sympathy. Even when we've got high 90º and 100º days, we don't have the humidity that you have. Among the many reasons who as a young man I fled the Bronx was the Eastern seaboard humidity. I can still remember those childhood summer nights when the sheets on my bed were so soaked with sweat it was like they'd been taken from the washing machine before the final spin cycle.

I wish you LOW humidity, Barb!

Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)