Fucking hot
Jul. 25th, 2005 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI think I said I was not going to bitch about the heat. Well, I lied. It is just way too fucking hot and I am not even in a hot part of the country.
I picked up my book. Remembered all three things at Bartells and started home. Hot. I tried to stay in the shade as much as I could but hot.
I got home and remembered I had to go to the post office to mail a package. Grabbed the box and left. The post office has no air conditioning and, on a day like today, no air. The line wasn't terribly long but very hot. And the route from my house to the post office is in the frying sun.
Back home - no keys. Did I leave them upstairs? Nope.
Back out in the frying sun back to the hot post office. Left them there - (thankgod I realized it before they closed) and now I'm home again and the air conditioner is working like mad.
Jake's latest thing is to stand on the desk in front of the computer monitor. He is just the right height to block 15% of it. He makes me crazy.
Did I mention it was hot?
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Date: 2005-07-25 11:57 pm (UTC)After 30-some years on the west coast with its marine air conditioning, I don't think I could live in the East or the Midwest again....
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Date: 2005-07-26 12:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-07-26 01:13 am (UTC)But... 98 degrees at 5 p.m. is just too high a price to pay.
If/when you have one of those tomatoes this year, would you please think of me?
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Date: 2005-07-26 03:51 am (UTC)You can hardly get the sandwich made before the tomato soaks into the bread.
I know we discuss this every year, but mmmmmmmmm.
It's the only time I really enjoy white bread. Well, maybe for my other childhood treat...Philadelphia Cream Cheese and grape jelly on white bread. I think I took it to first and second grade almost every day for lunch. The bread got a bit soggy, but yummy.
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Date: 2005-07-26 12:12 am (UTC)I do like the warmth...makes our city look even better.
I know it will be in the 80's until Friday. Then the famous NW Air Conditioner is suppose to come on and it will be about 75°. At least it isn't humid too. :)
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Date: 2005-07-26 12:20 am (UTC)I also bitch when we get no snow :)
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Date: 2005-07-26 01:15 am (UTC)108 is too hot for anything.
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Date: 2005-07-26 01:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-07-26 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-26 03:07 am (UTC)From what I can tell your midday high and my overnight low roughly correspond at the moment. Can I come to your house? I'd love to sleep out on your terrace tonight!
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Date: 2005-07-26 03:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-07-26 05:39 am (UTC).
Okay, I'm totally with you on the "too fucking hot" thing -- but I am not with you on the "I should be grateful it's not hotter" thing. You have to keep things in perspective: you get acclimated to the climate where you live. It is, as a matter of fact, perfectly reasonable for weather pushing 90° in Seattle to be considered way too fucking hot! It's just not the kind of heat we're used to.
Not that I ever got used to that kind of heat while living in Spokane, mind you -- it gets way too hot over there, and usually significantly hotter than here. Maybe I never got used to it because I was actually born in Olympia and lived there until I was 9. I just don't like extreme weather on either side of the coin: in Spokane, I prayed for snow every day of every winter I lived there. But then when I went to college in Pullman and we had over three feet of snow on the ground in February of 1996, I decided damn it, I've had enough of this crap! And really, I haven't missed the snow ever since. (It is kind of exciting to me when it does snow here, though, but only because it's so rare.)
In any event, consider this: KOMO TV's weather page (http://www.komotv.com/weather/) on their website says that "normal" temps for this time of year is in the mid-70°s range. Therefore, if we're getting highs in the mid-80°s range, then it's too fucking hot!
It doesn't exactly seem like "fuzzy math" to me . . .
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Date: 2005-07-26 06:40 pm (UTC)much chilly. I keep the space heater next to my bed intermittently on, while
enjoying the cool breezes from the window. We tend around 60-70 F during
the day, and the house heat goes on at night when it gets down to 50.
Am I annoying you yet? We appear to be the only cool area in the entire
world, and it would make me believe in God but it isn't fair to you guys.
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Date: 2005-07-26 07:10 pm (UTC)Right now I am in cool, air conditioned comfort. In 2 hours and 45 minutes, I am out the door into the oven for the 45 minute trip home (walking and bus).
Space heater? I don't even turn my heat on in winter. (I basically suck off the excess heat from the four condos around me and the hallway - it's plenty for me.)
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Date: 2005-07-26 07:32 pm (UTC)of some San Francisco hills. At night, the fog pours in and gets stuck here in our
little low-lying section. And I mean little: it's like a four block area. I can go
to my roof and see hot-hot-hot sections, and god-forbid I drive into the south bay,
where suddenly I'm dying from heat. So I thank my stars I live where I live,
and I worry about everyone else.
"Heaven, I'm in heaven." Did I mention the rent control?
(Seriously: I used to live eight blocks over, and it got HOT.)
Take *care* of yourselves.