We're having a heatwave

So there's no Ace walking the city for the last couple of days.  Lots of stuff to catch up on, though.
T.V.
On Public Television:
James John Audubon, famous for his "Birds of America", was also one of the first Naturalists and Conservationists, even though he killed thousands of birds to draw them.
A couple of things of interest from the show.  The panic of 1819 has often been attributed to failings in the banking system and public financing of the war of 1812, but the show mentions the catastrophic effect the weather had on farming that year.  Crops froze 3 times, causing many bankruptcies, foreclosures, etc.  People, without their usual food sources, took to shooting and eating pigeons.  They say at that time there were 3 to 5 billion passenger pigeons.  They would fly in flocks a mile long and wide.  Point your rifle straight up, fire and you had food.
Martha, the last surviving passenger pigeon, died in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo.  Deforestation, hunting and loss of habitat are the cause for their extinction.
Zen on Masterpiece Mystery.  The latest import from England.  Zen is a Roman detective known for his integrity  in a corrupt world.  The boss's secretary is the romantic interest.  Rufus Sewell as Zen, and Caterina Murino as the boss's secretary work well together and I know this is totally subjective, but they are two of the most attractive people on television. 
Then it's the weather channel, the news stations, books, magazines, housework, and trying to stay cool.  NYC, yesterday was hotter than Phoenix, Az.  Baltimore, may have been the hottest.
Heat indexes were: Baltimore 118, Newark 114, La Guardia airport 108.  Those passenger pigeons could have fanned us all and blocked the sun.