Unfortunately, it’s felt like summer at my desk for the last three days. I swear the temperature in my section of the building has been at least 85 degrees and there’s no way to get comfortable. To make matters worse, I haven’t had any real excuses to get up and spend time in a cooler area (which is pretty much anywhere else). They were tinkering with stuff all day with no relief, so it would seem there are serious issues with the A/C in the building. My geuss, Epic would rather limp along trying to make small tweaks than spring to fix it. I’m sure the fact the building lease runs out at the end of the year has something to do with it.

In other news, we’ve started our first big landscaping project – a retaining wall in the front yard. We’re a little over halfway through with most of the hard part (the foundation) already finished. It’s looking nice, but I’m afraid it may eliminate our first choice of tree to put in that bed. We’ll have pictures soon.

The best part of summer, though, is definitely softball. Even though our team is not that great, we’re starting to come around. Tonight’s game actually felt like we were an organized team for the first time. Everyone was there early, we were all lined up playing catch for warm-up, we had our lineup in place ahead of time, everyone knew where they were playing. And then there’s the best part – our first win! We were playing a team that we beat in a walk off last year after we moved down a league. This time we kept it close with good defense and we finally found our bats for a late comeback and a 14-12 victory.

Assuming the weather holds, the long weekend ahead should bring BBQ, landscaping, some geocaching, and maybe our first Brat Fest. I’m looking forward to the extra day off.