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Last night was pretty fun. My mother and younger sister set up the house with tons of candles and Harry Potter signs and stuff. It was Mom, Katie, Sara & Mikey and me. We made Butterbeer (cream soda, vanilla ice cream, butterscotch flavoring and a dash of cinnamon), played a couple of games (I won a ger-nome!) and watched Philosopher's Stone. Our friend Greg called me and told me that the local comic/gaming shop was having a HUGE sourcebook, game and toy sale ($1 apiece or 75% off!) so we went over there around 9 to go "schoolbook shopping". :-P Mikey and Sara bought about $1500 worth of stuff for under $200. I only got 7 sourcebooks myself (for $7.48 including tax), but their cover price value was probably around $120-$140.

I didn't buy a copy of Half-blood Prince myself because I plan to read Katie's copy when she's done with it around midweek. Still, a fun night.

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Following in thatfatboy's footsteps, here are the weather stats for Arlington for the past 2 years:

Month      Avg. High    Avg. Low   Month      Avg. High    Avg. Low
July 03    95.4         73.1       July 04    91.5         71.3
Aug  03    96.0         73.0       Aug  04    89.1         69.4
Sept 03    83.9         62.7       Sept 04    87.8         64.4
Oct  03    79.4         55.0       Oct  04    81.6         61.5
Nov  03    68.4         48.7       Nov  04    65.9         47.8
Dec  03    61.0         37.0       Dec  04    60.9         36.9
Jan  04    58.4         38.0       Jan  05    60.6         40.5
Feb  04    54.2         36.1       Feb  05    63.0         44.1
Mar  04    72.0         50.1       Mar  05    69.3         46.0
Apr  04    75.5         55.0       Apr  05    78.0         53.3
May  04    82.5         63.5       May  05    83.1         63.1
June 04    86.4         69.5       June 05    93.4         72.1

July 05    96.1         72.7 (so far, anyway)

In short, north Texas gets frellin' hot in the summer.
data collected from NOAA.