Things I Might Do In Fresno This Weekend

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I am going to try out a new segment for the site/nesletter, and cross my fingers that I stick with it so you can check back here on The Fresnan or Fresno!Fresno! on Fridays or Saturday mornings for this (someone hold me to it, please).

These are literal things I might do this weekend. Like, if I have enough money, or time, or energy, I would do one or all of these things. Hopefully, it helps you figure out something for yourself.

  • Hike around the San Joaquin River. Wildflowers are coming out. Things won’t be greener. The weather will only get hotter. There is snow to look at on the Sierra. Choice. Checking an almond orchard before the blossoms are gone can be a related activity.
  • Record swap in River Park at Barrelhouse – Saturday from 12 to 5.
  • Play pinball at Summer Fox (Santa Fe) – they have a Star Wars pinball I really want to try.
  • Eat a Me & Ed’s pizza (it’s been, like, three long weeks since I’ve had some).
  • Buy a discounted puffy jacket at Eddie Bauer’s in Fig Garden, since they are all closing.
  • Have a colab beer at Out Of The Barrel, all day on Saturday (they’re having a ‘colab fest’).
  • Rogue Festival. It is an important, annual cultural event for Fresno. Check out the schedule.

Rogue Fest goes through to next weekend, so I might push that back. Hell, I might push all of it back, it’s how I operate. 

Even if I do one of these things, I’ll be happy.

-Mike

Weather Report: A Wave Of Brutality

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Over the four or five days I have two words for you: night swimming 

Find someone with a pool. Tell them you’re bringing over beer. Happen to have a swim suit on. Hope for some hospitality and a pool owner that picks up on visual cues.

The brutality:

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But then the release:

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(next weekend’s forecast)

Just try to enjoy things when the sun goes down and know that the end of Summer is getting close.

There Are Weather Apps Out To Get Fresno?

 There Are Weather Apps Out To Get Fresno?
This is a screenshot from the weather app, Carrot.

Bro. I knew it wasn’t going to get to the 105 and 106 on Friday. This is what many weather models were showing.

You could tell by 9AM it wasn’t going to be that hot.

You see, experienced Fresnans know that the night before and the morning of, tell you everything about what the day is going to be like.

I worked outside most of the day and it was fine to me (humble brag). I am locked in for this Summer.

Anyway, really I am here to take this time to note that weather people are out to fuck Fresno.

All of them predict Fresno as being hotter than it really is. This is not an issue of the reading being taken at the wrong place (which it totally is), weather apps always error on the side of hotter.

Just like my favorite one, Carrot, they predict higher than it ends up being. All. The. Time.

So screw them all. I don’t know why they want to keep Fresno down, maybe they don’t even know they are doing it. But they do it.