Summer in Texas is always hot, but this year has been especially so. We're closing in on the all-time record of 63 days of 100 degree temperatures, and it's been 24 straight days since we've seen a high of 99 or less. Yep – it's summer in Texas and the heat will likely stay with us for a few more weeks.<\/p>\n
I really like traveling at this time of the year, because there's a pretty good chance I'll get a reprieve from the heat. Next week I'm heading out for two user group meetings….in Florida. The forecast calls for temps in the 90's, with scattered thunderstorms all week. Some reprieve.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday I'll be presenting at the Daytona Beach SolidWorks User Group<\/a>meeting. This group has really grown this year, almost tripling attendance over previous years. Group leader John Kerr has done a fantastic job since taking over. This will be my first visit to the group (and to Daytona Beach) and I'm looking forword to it.<\/p>\n On Wednesday I'll drive down the coast to Melbourne for the Central Florida SolidWorks User Group<\/a> meeting. This will be my second visit to Melbourne, but it's been a few years. I always look forward to seeing my good friend Casey Gorman, who along with John Fox, has been running this user group for more than six years. I even got to pick the food for this meeting.<\/p>\n Speaking of food, I plan to sample some "Florida Fare" during my trip. I asked for suggestion on Twitter<\/a>and was told to try Apalachicola Oysters, Cuban Sandwiches, Grouper Sandwiches, and\/or Grilled Amberjack. All good suggestions, but I don't think I'll get to try them all. I've got two user group meals to fit in there somehow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer in Texas is always hot, but this year has been especially so. We're closing in on the all-time record of 63 days of 100 degree temperatures, and it's been 24 straight days since we've seen a high of 99<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}