Riddle me this, Batman...

How is it that it can be 20 degrees cooler outside my house than it is inside my house when I've got all the fans on and some windows open? Seriously, I'm not turning my A/C on yet. If it can be 60 degrees outside, then it should be able to be 60 degrees inside. I've got several theories on this. I have yet to find any evidence to back up the ones involving ghosts and hellmouths...so its probably just bad airflow.

(Editor's note: The above was simply an observation and in no way, shape or form a complaint. While it's true that I prefer 20 degrees to 90 degrees, I'm going to do my best to refrain from griping about the heat this summer. I figure it's the least I can do since, from what I can tell, 40% of my audience could be reading this while sitting in 120 degree heat. Also, the temperature has reached the 90s and it looks like its going to stay there for a while. My A/C is on as of today. But, I already had The Riddler made up and ready to go, and I didn't want that to go to waste.)

We took a mini family vacation to Fort Worth for my cousin Jenna's graduation. Which brings me to my next riddle. How can a six hour road trip with my mom and sister be longer than a 14 hour road trip by myself? Holy Backseat Driver, Batman!!! Mother/daughter bickering, typical sibling rivalry stuff, a good helping of Oklahoma radio as well as the aforementioned backseat driving and that, dear readers, makes for a long drive. Also, a two and a half hour graduation is longer than a three and a half hour baseball game. I'm not sure how that works, but my cuz is all grown up and graduating college, and she came to all my boring ceremonies, so I'll deal with it.

Congratulations, Jenna! Welcome to the Real World!

Other things we did include: Moving my cousin out of her apartment (because it wouldn't be a vacation is I didn't get to help someone move), eating about 15 pounds of meat at Texas de Brazil steakhouse, hitting the down town club scene, or whatever you call it, with my cousins, and it was Mother's Day weekend, so we did some Mother's Day type stuff, like head to the ballpark to watch a Texas Rangers game.

Hooray for moms everywhere!!!

The following weekend, the Relay for Life got rained on for the second year in a row. This year the rain started earlier in the evening. That meant I didn't have to run around the football field at 3 in the morning chasing other teams tents and supplies that were blowing away. Yeah, last year my older sister and I were the only two people out there at 3 AM in the rain and lightning...because we're hardcore. So, I didn't have to do that this year...but I did have to wear a really gay shirt. I still don't know how I feel about that trade off.

This is pretty much exactly how that night looked.

One more thing before I go. Riddle me this. How do you make a 31 year old guy feel really old? You have him go out with his college graduate cousin and some of her friends. When you get to the club everything is cool. Then a song comes on. Not a good song mind you, but a song that everyone, and I mean everyone in the place knows...except for me. This really doesn't surprise me, seeing as how I haven't listened to Top 40 radio in years. But when I find out what that song is...when they get to the part of the song that I have heard more than my fair share of times thanks to my niece's iPod and TV viewing habits...that's when I feel old. So the answer to the riddle, "How do you make a 31 year old guy feel really old?" Stick him in a room with hundreds of colleges students dancing and singing in unison to... Miley Cyrus' "Party in the U.S.A."

No...they are NOT playing my song.

All kidding aside, it was a great time. It was good to hang out with Jenna and Emily, the cousins that I normally only see for a few hours a year at Thanksgiving and Christmas...and maybe Labor Day. The trip was a break from everything I needed a break from. And although there is still little over a week left in May, I'm going to go ahead an say that the weekend with the family was the high point of the month.

And my apologies if you now have a Miley Cyrus song stuck in you head. Maybe this will help. Its the Foo Fighters doing what they do best...rocking hard. If you don't need to get Miley out of your head...well I do. So I'm going to put the video up anyway. The Foo Fighters' "The Pretender"