Rainy day!

[susandennis]

It's a rare rainy day here in Seattle. Don't laugh. We don't get rain in Summer. So this is a treat. Plus, it never stays hot with rain. It cools off very nicely. So the A/C is turned off and the door is open and Biggie is very confused. It's also really really quiet. 64 degrees

Today was a swim day and a good one. I love that this gym opens up 15 minutes before my swim time. That means I get a good 10 minutes extra which is kind of like a bonus.

The Mariners are playing their game in the afternoon today which is a nice little change.

So Biggie was due for annual shots in July. I called the vet and they said no hurry, I could put it off safely for months. And then I got two email reminders from them that he was due for shots. Their website makes it sound like they are only doing emergency, critical stuff. They've always been different but their different has stepped up a notch, I think.

Last night I sent an email asking if I should keep postponing and if not, how could I best get him in? (They don't do appointments but now have instituted this queue thing. You are supposed to call and they tell you what time to come in and queue up.) I immediately got an auto response saying it would be a couple of days because there was this pandemic and their co-worker got killed and they were very busy. Fine.

Two hours later I got a response from Alex saying that really, since he's indoors only, Biggie's shot could be postponed for a while but, he (Alex) had added me to the 8 am queue on Tuesday if I wanted to bring him in. That suits me perfectly so in he goes on Tuesday and I can quit worrying about it.

I keep leaving my phone in the car. It seems like I do it every single time. Today, when I left the locker room at the gym, I put the phone in my pocket but it was too heavy so I put it in my bag. I leave my swim bag in the car (and just bring up the wet stuff). So that's where my phone is. DOH.

So my todo list for today involves going down to the car to get my phucking phone. Also I guess it's time to bring up the diet Dr. Pepper that's been in the back now for nearly a month. And then I need to clear off some more hall shelf space for more yarn. And then... just the usual. It would be a good day to walk up and get burger for lunch but I have a house full of food that is already bought and paid for and ain't gettin' any younger.

Time to get on it.

Comments

[legalmoose]

I seem to recall your building builds up heat over the course of the summer (or maybe I'm just crazy?). If so, does the rain help dissipate some of the residual heat for you?

[susandennis]

You are not wrong (honestly, it would be reckless of me to speculate on your crazy). But, yes, a 20+ degree cool down like this really does help. One factor we have that you don't is always always cool nights. Our low's rarely get above 60. So a cool morning after a cool night really does bring the inside down a notch. Right now it is 61 degrees on my terrace and 73 degrees here on the sofa (probably 8 feet from the window).

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I can never leave soda in my car anymore, at least in summer. I made the mistake once of picking up some soda on my lunch break and leaving it while I worked in the afternoon. Driving home, a LOUD crack....I mean, I seriously thought someone was shooting at me. The cans exploded from the heat! Soda everywhere. Lesson learned. Haha

[susandennis]

omg! these are bottles and not cans but i suspect the bottle, plastic, wouldn't like your heat much either. i cannot fathom how people live in arizona and nevada summers. it boggles me. (and don't shovel that dry heat crap - i ain't buyin'! ehhehehehe)

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

You won't catch me making comments about the dry heat! Summers here are ridiculous and miserably hot, and every year I wonder how this city happened. Did some wagon train break down and they thought, "well...here we are, may as well live here"? Did they keep getting more discouraged as they went further west and finally just give up in defeat and not bother going further? I know that isn't really how it went down, but sometimes at night when I go to walk around the block and it's still 105 at 7:30pm, my mind wanders down weird paths....

[amw.livejournal.com]

I love how you're all like "great, it's raining!" and i'm over here in Van going "what am i supposed to do today?"

Perhaps i should stay in and write an entry.

[susandennis]

hahaha good plan on the entry.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

I've been hearing for literally decades about how it rains a lot in Seattle, does it just do that when it's not summer or is the whole thing an exaggeration?

[susandennis]

You are not alone. The rain of Seattle is legendary and almost always falsely represented. In the Summer we get very little rain at all - very little. And very few cloudy days. Summer here is pretty July 1 to Labor Day. The rest of the year, we have many (most?) days when it is overcast and of those, a lot have mist and some drizzle.

About maybe a half dozen times a year or so, we get heavy rain. The kind of rain where it makes sense to get your car out of the garage and 'let god wash it'. It happens so infrequently that you really stop and watch cause it's amazing.

We also have very few (maybe 1 or 2 a year) thunderstorms.

You will notice on every single TV show depicted in Seattle and every single movie, there are constant scenes showing pour rain and lightening and thunder. Gray's Anatomy is the best. They get a thunderstorm nearly every episode.

The local lore is that the locals never carry an umbrella because we don't have enough rain to warrant it. So if/when you see an umbrella in Seattle, you know it's a tourist.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

The TV show that took place in Seattle that I watched a lot was Frasier and I remember it raining sometimes on there but usually just when the plot called for it.

[susandennis]

Yeah, Frasier did it pretty much true to city.