Is Summer Ever Going to Get Here?

The weather here is miserable.  It is the coldest June I can recall.  On top of that it has been raining pretty steady all month.  We had huge amounts of rain with thunder and lightning yesterday.  Not much fun.  I get home from work and it's too cold to spend any time outside.  My JetSki is getting lonely.  One nice thing is watching the hummingbirds.  I have a feeder outside my living room window.  We have 5 or 6 birds at a time eating.  They sure have a lot of energy.  

The Mariners are living up to their reputation this season for being awful.  They haven't won more than 3 games in a row all season.  It has been a struggle to be a fan.  This reminds of the old Kingdome days.  There were games we would go to back then when I swear there weren't 5000 people at the games.  You would spend the entire game wandering around looking for something interesting to eat.  It was better than watching the game.  Today you go to the game and I sit tight in my seat.  I know I can't afford to buy food at the games.  I think that the Mariners raised the prices on almost all of the food items by $1.  The other day I was at a game and they were advertising that it was 2 for Tuesday.  You could buy 2 baseball caps for the price of one.  I went to the concession stand.  Lo and behold, I couldn't get a decent looking cap.  The only ones available were pink or white non standard hats.  A classic case of bait and switch.  I'm getting real tired of going to see a poor team that doesn't seem to give anything back to the fans.  The least they could do is win a game of two.

My son Tom is back working at the supermarket this summer.  He tells me that it is a very difficult year for students to get jobs.  Most of his friends haven't been able to get summer jobs.  Tom may not like working where he is, but it is better than many kids his age this year.