Friday Chat w/ Vlad

Hey, it’s Vlad. Well it seems as though we are entering the dog days of summer. These are the hot, sultry days of summer and boy has it lived up to this. If I could sweat, I’d be sweating like a germaphobe at microbiology convention. I do question why they are called dog days and not fox days. Any day that’s a fox 🦊 day is a good day. It turns out they are called this after the star Sirius which is also known as the Dog Star. This star rises in conjunction with the sun beginning about July 19. The Romans thought this brought about the heat of summer. Now there IS a constellation called Vulpecula, or the little fox, which is located in a part of the sky called the Summer Triangle. It is called this as the stars making up the triangle are visible overhead during the summer. Consequently I think it would be perfectly appropriate to talk about the fox days of summer. Or we could just talk about the Vlad days of Summer....why the Vlad days?? Cause Vlad is rad. Say it with me. Some say I’m cocky but it’s just my Vladittude. I do feel bad for Lucan. Even with his summer coat he still resembles a woolly mammoth. He really doesn’t like the heat. I’m told when he was little, as if he ever was truly little, he would avoid the sun so much there was concern he might be part vampire.

Ok, so enough about the weather. I have this secret that I have been debating whether or not to tell you. Most of you obviously think of me as this debonair guy...a real Rico Sauve, and you are correct. However I am also a bit old fashion. I am not one to go around bragging when it comes to matters of the heart and that is what this secret has to do with. I think I will just give you some hints and see if you can guess my secret. This secret is about something I did, there is evidence that the very first human civilizations did it as well. About 10% of present day human cultures do not do this. There have been many poems written about this including one by Shakespeare. Several songs feature this in the title including ones by Katy Perry, Hall & Oates and Faith Hill. There was even a band named this. Do you know my secret?

-Vlad out