My niece has a novel female-centric card and gift store in the newly remodeled terminal. It’s the only independent card store in a major US airport. The bid process (for the space) and the buildout was tortuous and costly but so far it appears to have been with it.
Amen. I lived in the Houston-Galveston area for 25 years (and before that, 20 years in equally-humid SW Louisiana) and whenever I catch myself moaning about the peak heat times in Phoenix I remind myself of the insufferable humidity I left behind. Being able to completely dry off after a shower (in a bathroom with NO fog on the mirror) is one of the many joys of living in the desert SW.
The high temps here are only insane for relatively small part of the year and the rest of the time the dry air takes the sting out of almost any temperature.
Does it feel better or worse... better, I assume? I’m in AZ - but when I visit my hometown in Southwest Louisiana and it’s 94° and 90% humidity (it’s ranked on some lists as the most humid city in the United States) I wish I was back in Phoenix.
“I knew NBC had been spewing chit for what seems like an eternity, but turns out they were around millions of years ago to measure CO2. Or their “experts” were.”
The CO2 meters 10,000,000 years ago were incredibly precise - and it’s so handy that they meticulously recorded their readings in a format that lasted to this day.
“Well, I don’t mean to call anyone ‘sanctimonious’ in this regard; but actual experience often causes us to change previous opinions arrived at more or less ‘theoretically’.”
I agree. I only refer to those as sanctimonious who have expressed their less-than-fully-informed opinions that way.