Levi Ghetto Cat Loop/Levy Loop

It's 10:52 a.m., and 96°F, with a heat index of 108, just like the last two mornings. I walked the Levi Ghetto Cat Loop in 31:13, and I'm drenched. Shit, I hate it when it's too hot to golf. We tied a record for the date yesterday when it reached 107, which is the predicted high for today.

I remember the day in late August, 2000, when it reached 111°F and the National Weather Bureau in North Little Rock was the hottest reporting station on earth, and Elaine Gimblet bragged that she and Ron and their gang jogged around the Lakewood lakes. Today, at 2:40 p.m., it was 114, so, just to say I exercised through the hottest day in the recorded history of North Little Rock, regardless of date, I walked the Levy Loop in 33:21. Now, at 4:14, it's a relatively pleasant 111. It's clouded up a bit. The former record was set in late August of 1986, when it reached 112. I remember that summer, too, walking home from Dickson Street one evening in Fayetteville through pouring rain with a girl named Jennifer Hudson. Everyone out that night was delighted to be soaked through to their underwear.