Category: Life

For someone who lives downtown I spend a fair bit of time in the exurbs.

For example, last week there was breakfast at Denny’s in Whitby. I like Denny’s and I especially enjoy the Chicken Fried Steak breakfast. I also really like stopping at the Cracker Barrel when driving in the United States. They have some very fine Chicken Fried Steak — much better than Denny’s — but you get what you can in Southern Ontario.

I’m not sure what my dining preferences say about me but I can tell you, I prepare vegetables on a daily basis in my own kitchen.

So moving along to my point. In the same plaza where Denny’s is located there is an Extreme Fitness.

The people going in and out —I realize I am one to talk from my vantage point in Denny’s— didn’t look extremely fit.

I don’t think I wrote about the time I collapsed in my office last summer from heat exhaustion.

Well, I did. And the other members of my office (after they realized I really was in trouble) helped me out with water and cool cloths. It was quite an event — especially after we realized that I was the only person with first aid training but I was in no shape to help myself.

It was — as noted — just heat exhaustion. After some water and some rest in a cool house I was just fine.

This is on my mind because this week is looking to be just too damn hot. They said on the news that records will be broken.

I am not looking forward to it. Not at all.