ANOTHER DAY

When I rise in the morning, I immediately exit my apartment and from my second-floor balcony I survey the resaca in front of me and the TSC/UTRGV campus in the distance. What a surprise when I opened the door today. A cool breeze was wafting from the north or was it a swirling wind spinning off the gulf? I couldn't believe it, but we are in September and in a little more than two weeks it will officially be fall. Wow! I think I would bet the house on the realization that we are going to survive another merciless and relentless summer together.

It is two o'clock in the afternoon and the day remains refreshing. The palms are swaying in the breeze as only they can do. The sky, with its different shades and sizes of clouds, resembles an impressionistic painting. I hope after the rains that City Manager Helen Ramirez has her people on high alert and ready-to-go as we brace for another mosquito and gnat invasion. The municipality did not meet the challenge in August after the tropical rains. City Commissioner Roy De Los Santos admitted as much.

September has traditionally been the transitional month and nothing has changed this year. We will have our share of hot days, but summer has been served notice. The bottom line: From October through March Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley luxuriate in the comfort of an eternal spring.  And the cold days when the northers are blowing with artic gusto, bring them on. I can't wait to pull my faithful leather jacket from the closet and hit the streets.

As fickle as the weather can be, there are few social media outlets more capricious than Facebook. In general, I'm not complaining; I'm noting. FB will flag a user with seemingly no basis for its decision. Or, more accurately, FB displays a lack of consistency. I know when I'm flying the envelope, so I'm not astonished when I read that I must remove an article or face the consequences. And I am more than aware of the repercussions if I forget that it's FB's game and ball. I have paid the price on multiple occasions.

I have learned my lesson and I don't questions the warnings although I do scratch my head when I'm told that I'm not adhering to community standards. Today I posted a short, fictional piece entitled BLOGGER BOLTS TO JUKEBOX BAR TO ESCAPE CAGAPALO. It's great stuff, me at my best in a dazzling, bi-lingual style resembling Junot Diaz's work, but FB took a contrary view of my art. I recognized many decades ago that we all don't share the same vision. There is a reality I must accept or perish. I choose to retreat rather than surrendering to my arrogance and forfeiting access to FB as a result.

Fortunately, I have my blog on Google and a following. This remarkable display of writing is at least perused by my three readers. For those who are reading this article on FB rather than my blog The McHale Report, the latter is accessible at themchalereport.blogspot.com. If I should disappear from FB for a short or a long spell, I will still be doing schtick on my Google hosted blog.

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