The Agony of Irony

For those that don't know, I live in a desert. Today was the first painfully hot day of the year. 104* in the shade. So....stay out of the shade! I decided to go have myself a meatless burger at Chili's. Now there is a place that lives up to it's name. Maybe even exceeds it. It was at BEST chilly in that place, to my sweaty body that I spent the whole day acclimating to the heat, it was FREEZING!!! I always want to die in an interesting way. Freezing to death on the hottest day of the year seems about right. Seriously, it was about 50* in there. BRR!!! I find human excess interesting. Clearly on a hot day you want to be inside a nice air conditioned building. Say, a balmy 72*. That's apparently not enough for the staff of Chili's. They want to slide right past comfortable, to the point that the temperature is all you can think about. Seems defeatist. Isn't the point of A/C to make you comfortable?  I would like to challenge everyone to make an effort to show some restraint this week. In what ever you do. It's empowering to NOT do something that you know you could. Yes, you could drive your car at 100 mph. Try 65 instead. Jumbo pizza? Nah, try the small. Or perhaps a salad. Feel like fondling yourself all evening....well we DO need a little bit of fun in life. 

The fact that I write this is a little bit ironic in and of itself. I am a hardcore Capitalist. Yet I find myself arguing the merits of scaling back. Right sizing I like to call it. 

While on the topic, how about some linguistic irony. Why is it called a Chili when it is so freaking HOT?!?!? It's a Latin conspiracy.