Okay.. what do insulin, medicated eye drops and asthma inhalers have in common?

They are medications that people tend to carry with them and then tend to leave in the car. Frankly, it's not that good of an idea to leave any medications in your car when it's hot outside because it'll cook 'em. But, with these meds (particularly asthma inhalers and insulin) the last thing you need is to find out thier effectiveness is compromised after baking in your 150 degree car for the past few hours.

Tonite's story came to us via the PR team at Providence. They sent along a few ideas.. a few times during the day when folks were available.. and we basically looked at the list and picked one. I liked this medication/sun story because it was timely and different than the ususal "drink lots of water and stay in the shade" story that I do when we hit a heatwave.

Hmm, I just realized I haven't done my annual sunscreen story yet either.

Here is a picture I took with my phone's camera of the back of phojo Jim C. He's grabbing an "exterior" as we call it. It's basically the outside of whatever building we're shooting in.. and makes it into the piece as cover video about 50% of the time. He heard my phone make that fake camera sound as if it shot on film and he asked me what I was up to. I told him nothing. He soo didn't believe me.

He has this thing with fish. I snapped this while sitting in the car while he grabbed an exterior. The little cards hang on a chain around his steering wheel and the fish I'm holding is a keychain.

And this is his new take on the bobblehead. Love it!

I should take a photo of one of the phojo's car I rode in yesterday. The cupholder where I put my water bottle is full of spent sunflower seed shells. Awesome. :-)

Mark writes that I should get pest strips to get rid of the ants. I keep hoping they just get bored and go away. To be so lucky, right?

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