The fact that it's supposed to reach 70 degrees today is unbelievable. Sure, it's supposed to drop to frigid temperatures in a few days, but the important point is that it's the result of climate change, not global warming.

I took my old one-handed watch into the watch repair shop last week to get the battery replaced. To my chagrin, they informed me that the battery was fine but that it needed "to be cleaned" which would cost $80. With no other choice, I left the watch with them.

This weekend I returned for the watch and discovered, mirabile dictu, that the watch now had three hands. I expressed surprise to which the watch repair man said, cryptically, "this is the new version...that's what they sent us". I explained that there was no "new version" of my watch, and that it only had one hand. He countered that perhaps they could just remove the second and minute hand. My retort was simple: find and put the old hand back on. After ten fruitless minutes of searching, he finally found the old hand and said that they needed another couple of days to fix things.

So at this point I've already been to the watch repair place 2 times, with a third coming, and an $80 bill, only to see them mess up the entire point of my old watch.

It's enough to make me hot. But that's what the weather is for, right?