The annoying little cactus is popping up on the weather widget on my iGoogle again. That means, in case you didn’t already know, it’s friggin hot outside.

But you don’t need me, or some cutesy drawing of a sharp, green plant, to tell you that it is hot outside. I’ll let my squiggles display how hot it’s been outside recently.

Last weekend my wife and I went to a matinée showing of the film “Wanted” (it’s pretty decent for a mindless summer action flick, btw) in an attempt to escape the heat inside of a cool, air-conditioned theater. After the movie we made a short, 10-minute trip to Costco.

While inside Costco I left a pack of squiggles, which are knockoff gummy worms, on the center console of my car. I was planning on eating them inside the theater but I forgot they were in my wife’s purse. When we returned from our brief Costco stop, my squiggles were no longer squiggly. They had melted into one massive glob of gooey, gummy goodness.

I’m sure you’ve heard of the saying “it’s so hot outside you can fry an egg on the sidewalk.” Well, Sunday afternoon it was so hot outside you could cook a packet of squiggles inside a car in 10 minutes (see the picture above for proof).