Learning about Alzheimer's Disease and the Lone Star Flight Museum

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**Doug Pike** (0:17)
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**Doug Pike** (0:52)
All right, here we go. And just like that, just like that, after yesterday and the day before and the day before that, when the sky was falling, according to all the chicken little forecasters on TV, just like that, it's sunny and warm again. Dry weather too. Dry at least so long as you don't count humidity. And the reason you can't count humidity is because a wet pencil won't write on a wet piece of paper. It just rips apart. Like our plans and dreams to do things outside when it's like it was this morning. Oh my gosh. Overnight lows of about 85
That's what we get now. It's just kind of steps on your chest when you get up and walk outside in the morning. 95% humidity.
It just clocks you.
Chokes the breath out of you, but you plod forward. You know why? Because you've lived here all your life, or at least long enough to have experienced this a couple of summers to acclimate, and you know it's not going to kill you.
And you're going to fish or play golf or mow the lawn or go for a walk because as long as you can still do any or all of those things, even or anything really remotely similar. Outdoors at three or four in the afternoon, if you can do any of that stuff in the middle of the afternoon, this time of year, especially after a significant rain event because it takes four or five days for the steam to rise out of the turf or out of the yard wherever you're walking. If you can do that, you've won. You've officially beat the heat and not let the heat beat you.
Some of that's kind of personal. But enough about me, I'm still amazed that so many of us in this audience grew up without central air conditioners. Looking back, think about it. Vaguely, I can remember when we got our first little window unit air conditioner for our house in Sharpstown.
That was a game changer. It was just, it really didn't cool. It didn't cool the house. It was a small house. But one little air conditioner tucked into the den window, it would cool the den. I guess if you could call it that. And the kitchen. And beyond that, to the formal living room, the little formal dining room, the three bedrooms in the house, it was just still summertime in Houston. And it was staggering. What it did was it gave you some place to go if opening the windows wasn't doing anything to help the rest of the house. And in the middle of summer, opening the windows just made it hotter. It seemed like anyway. Although on a good breezy day, just because it was shady inside, at least it seemed probably six, eight degrees cooler. But a hundred's a hundred. And no matter where you are, it's still gonna feel like a hundred. Dry heat, wet heat, I don't care. This whole dry heat thing too, I've been to Vegas a dozen times. I don't know, I've been up to North Texas where the first trip I made up there, I was having to do some very physical stuff outside. And they said, don't worry, it's just a dry heat up here. It's not gonna bug you. And it does, you just don't, you don't feel the sweat like you do down here. Your shirt doesn't get immediately soaked after five minutes of doing what I was doing.
But it does down here. And one way or the other, if you're losing moisture, whether it's evaporating off your skin immediately or whether it's just clinging to your clothing. Back in the days of cotton golf shirts, and well, I was right out there. I was covering golf for the newspaper. I was flying all over the country for these media golf trips to some of the most amazing golf resorts on the continent.
And one trip in particular comes to mind, two rounds a day for five days out of Fort Lauderdale, actually, I think we were. We drove down and played in Miami at least one day of that trip. But what I remember very well is we would get up, have breakfast, get on a bus, and drive to the first place we were gonna play, tee time around eight o'clock. Just humidity out the wazoo, very similar to here at eight o'clock in the morning on a damp day.