June 1st:  I love it here in Merida. Now this is a city that knows how to live! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! It is beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:  Really heating up. Got to 99 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshipper.

June 30th:  Had the backyard landscaped with south western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing the lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:  The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least, it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected. Can't drink a beer without the bottom half getting too warm ..... tastes like cat pee.

July 15th:  Fell asleep by the pool. Got second degree burns over 60% of my body; missed three days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:  I missed the fact that the neighbors cat snuck into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car at noon, the cat had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag... then popped like a water balloon. The car now smells like Kibbles and poop. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat. Good ol' Mr. Sun strikes again. Heh heh!

July 25th:  The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:  Been sleeping outside on the patio for three nights now. A wonderful home and I can't even go inside. The cat is the lucky one. Why did I ever move here?

August 4th:  It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $1500 and gets the temperature down to 85. I hate this stupid city.

August 8th:  If another wise ass cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet and I smell like baked cat!

August 9th:  Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and when I sat on the seats in the car, I thought my ass was on fire. My skin melted to the seat. I lost two layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass... Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass and baked cat.

August 10th:  The weather report might as well be a damn recording: Hot and sunny, hot and sunny, hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do anything but gasp for two damn months, and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain here? Water rationing will be next, so my $1,700 worth of cactus will just dry up and blow over. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

August 14th:  Welcome to HELL! Temperature got to 115 again today. Cacti are dead. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it, and guess what he asked me??? "Hot enough for you today?"

My friend had to spend $3,500 to bail me out of jail. &*@#$% Merida! What kind of sick demented idiot would want to live here? I will write later to let you know how the trial goes.