I hate, loathe, detest, abhor and passionately despise air conditioning!!!!!

[Scantilly]

I live in a small town in the mountains.

I have recently endured a painfully freezing, unbelievably long, bleak and abominable winter. During Spring I was still wearing a jumper (Australian for sweater) during the day and then it rained, deluged in fact, relentlessly, for 4 or 5 weeks.

So now that summer is finally here,kindly help me understand, why am I still wearing warm clothes and shivering at my desk at work? Why do I curse when I arrive at a restraunt without a coat? Why does no one else in this country seem to relish the idea of sweating profusely, melting, legs sticking to the seat of a chair, air thick and balmy around naked skin?

It's summer. We're supposed to be hot!!!!! That's the idea of summer. That's the whole point. Heat. Warmth. Sweat. What am i not getting?

And you know, I think i might have an easier time understanding it, if everybody hadn't complained miserably about how cold the winter was.

I'm confused.

I'm furious and dissapointed that it's the middle of summer and I spend all day being cold.

Why? Please help me understand?

Please?

[twickster]

Amen, sister! (or brother, whatever.)

What kills me is when it cools off outside -- like at night -- and the person in question (with whom I just broke up) won't turn off the a/c and let in some fresh air. Or runs the a/c in the car on a perfectly nice evening so that he has to keep running the wipers to get rid of the condensation he's creating. (Gah. Who knew the last straw would be our respective a/c habits?)

[Scantilly]

Yes, I hear you, I UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!

[Mama Tiger]

Well, we're fresh air freaks, but there ARE limits. In our particular below-sea-level swamp, AC saves our life. But at home, we keep it no lower than 76-78F, and any time the weather goes below about 80 (the humidity is usually still at least 90% so it's still warm), we turn it OFF and open the windows.

That being said, I also keep a sweater in the car so I won't freeze when I go out. Meat locker temperature. Why? What's wrong with at least being comfortable inside as well as out?

I also have a friend who's a native of Miami (and still lives there) who turns her AC down to 70 at night, and runs ceiling fans on high in all the bedrooms. Last time I stayed with her, I brought my own heavy winter blanket, she didn't have any that were warm enough! Now THAT is ridiculous, to use a winter blanket in Miami in May!!!

[Podkayne]

I am blessed with an office that has windows that you can actually open! This means that instead of making sure to bring an extra layer (or layers) of clothing to work, I can close my door, crack the window, and let in some of the swelter from outside. Aaahhhhhhhh.

I still feel a bit guilty for wasting energy to air-condition the whole neighborhood, since my office does have a thermostat, but repeated inquires into whether we could possibly turn up the temperature to some kind of compromise value have gone unanswered, and, dammit, I should not have to wear a sweater (or jumper ) to work in July.

[Johnny L.A.]

I don't have air conditioning in my apartment -- but I wish I had! I prefer things cool. Pacific Northwest weather. The mid-fifties and maybe a little mist is great weather. Much above 75°F and it starts to become untolerable.

[FairyChatMom]

The people in my office absolutely slay me. In the summer, they set the thermostat to 72. But if the temp in winter drops below 78, they whine and moan and bitch and complain. These people are nuts!

The last boss bought one of those locking covers for the thermostat, but someone managed to break the lock. And it's set up so that you can insert a plastic knife thru the air vents in the cover and adjust the temp anyway!

I just keep an old, light-weight fleece jacket in the office - I wore it most of this past week. Life's too short to play the thermostat game.

Incidentally, at home, the AC is set at 78, and all the ceiling fans run on low. It's comfy in here when it's 90+ outside with dripping humidity.

[Dawne]

I can't wait until i get to America in a few weeks because of the superior air conditioning. It was really hot this week (well, for england anyway) but because hot weather is quite unusual there aren't a lot of places with air conditioning so you have to suffer in the heat. Not long until autumn now!! Yay!

[Lyllyan]

My SO insist on keeping the A/C turned to 68. Recently I managed to sneak it up to 70 and he hasn't noticed yet, but!...we also have fans (ceiling or floor) in every single room in the house and they run constantly. I have to wear a jacket, in the house, in the summer, when it's 90 degrees outside.

Sometimes its a shock even going outside. I forget that it is hot out there, I will remove my jacket, soak in some warmth, then go back inside to brave the elements.

One morning I thougt it felt a little bit more nipply than usual, so I checked the thermostat in the bedroom. 66 degrees.

We went on vacation in Feburary, to Colorado. Lots of snow....actually it was great because its a different kind of cold. Anyway, while we were on vacation, I had turned the heat off completely at the our house. When we got back home, 10 days later, it was 65 degrees. So, my house, with no heat at all in the middle of winter, is no colder than my bedroom in the middle of summer!

Mind blowing isn't it.

SO, my dear Scantilly, have a blanket, I've got plenty.

[Gary "Wombat" Robson]

Don't hate the air conditioning just because some folks overuse it. People walked into my store all day yesterday telling me how great it felt. I was running my swamp cooler and the temperature indoors was in the 70's versus the unbearable high 90's outdoors.

And during the winter...

I hate being hot and sweaty. It gripes me in the winter when I dress for the cold weather, and then walk into a store or office that's heated like an incubator. It's snowing outside, and I'm sweating in heavy pants, socks, and long-sleeved shirt.

[tanookie]

Well if it weren't for air conditioning I would not be able to walk right now. My feet would have swelled so much that the skin would be stretched and painfully red.

That said, we keep the AC set at 80.

My father always had one room in the house with ac (a window one) set on the highest setting. So the whole house would be intolerably hot except for the one room that was intolerably arctic. I could go from sweating to shivering in 2 seconds flat. And I always had a cold all summer from having to sit with him in that room to keep him company and then going out to school or work in the heat.

Restaurants and the like have it tough. When the place is busy their air conditioning can barely keep up but when it is off peak then it gets the place meatlocker cold. They can't win! I bring a sweater.

[whiterabbit]

Mama Tiger YOU may be a fresh air freak. I am all for meat locker. I kept my apartment at about 70, and loved it, though I did have to pay the power bills!

I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE being hot. I'd much rather be too cold than be too hot. This house is regularly too warm for me. But I keep my mouth shut.

The rest of you, grab a damn sweater.

[RotorHead]

I love cold. Wintertime, I open the windows at night. I have real trouble sleeping if it is more than 70 or so inside. It just gets really stuffy. Best sleeping temp is more like 60. At least those of you who are always cold can add clothing. Theres a limit to how much clothing I can take off, and not be arrested. So those who are always cold have it better.

I'm with whiterabbit: meatlocker= happy. Everyone else should just learn to wear more clothing.

[JohnBckWLD]

I hate it too..don't even have on in the house. Plenty of open windows and ceiling fans cool off the house plenty.

At work, the first day in my office I snipped the plug right off the cord.

My dislike for AC was one of the items on my long list of ideal compatible mates. We lived in marital bliss part of the time and fought other times...but at least we never felt like cadavers in a pull out drawer.

I've yet to turn it on in the car. Even in traffic with the windows open and the heat from the exhaust waffing up, I prefer to leave it off. On those really hot days, off comes the shoes, socks, shirts and shorts.

Do I care people in SUV's and trucks can see me driving home in my briefs? No. It's not like I'm an exibitionist in a convertable - just makin myself comfortable.

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally posted by whiterabbit
I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE being hot.

You sound like Gisele Bundchen or John Basedow

[Guinastasia]

I hate the heat as well, and because I'm on Paxil, I have a very low tolerance for hot weather.

I prefer it when the house is nice and cool. It's also much healthier.

The reason people in businesses should keep the air running even when the store is closed is because then it has to work even harder to cool off the building when you turn it back on. When I worked at Kmart, they turned it off at night, and as a result, it never worked properly.

God bless whoever invented Air Conditioning!

[Baker]

As a Kansan who is going through a very hot summer here, I consider air conditioning to be proof of the existence of God.

[Trigonal Planar]

I'm not particularly picky about temperatures. I don't really care if its hot or cold. I love being warm, so if its cool, I'll just but more clothes on.

But I LOVE the AC. Not for the temperature control, but for the allergy control. I have awful allergies in the summer and the AC fills my house with wonderful cold, dry, allergen-free air.

[Smeghead]

You might feel differently if, like me, spending even a few minutes in too-hot weather left you with a raging, pounding headache for the rest of the day. The last few days at work have been miserable, because apparently the company feels that us night shifters don't need comfortable working conditions. Complaints go unheeded, because they use the excuse that the temperature is set for the machines, not the workers. Which is crap, because even our robots were sweating. Luckily, we have a walk-in refrigerator set at 4 degrees C that I can go hang out in periodically.

[5 time champ]

I hate hot weather, and consider a/c to be among humankind's greatest acheivements.

[Agrippina]

Last month when I went to Las Vegas I wore shorts on my trip there because LV is hot. Well, stupid me never thought about the airports or the airplanes, which are all really cold places. And I had long lay-overs, too.

Schools keep their buildings really cold too. I remember in high school kids would take their jackets to school in September because it was so cold in the building.

[October]

Heh. All y'all who are bitching about air conditioning obviously haven't lived in Texas. Specifically, Houston, which had the dubious honor of being the most air-conditioned city in the world, last time I checked. It gets so hot here (the 110% humidity kind of hot, not the tolerable dry heat kind of hot--the swamp dwellers know what I'm talking about) that when you leave your house to walk ten feet to your car, you're drenched. And then you have to get into a 130 degree car. It's really annoying if you've just taken a shower, are on your way to work, and--oh yeah, it's 7:30 in the morning. Oh yes, I like air conditioning...

[Slow Moving Vehicle]

I recently vacationed in Washington D.C. I got up one morning, took a shower, then realized I had forgotten to bring hairspray. So I walked down to a drugstore four blocks from the hotel - total time outdoors, 20 minutes max. When I got back to the hotel, I had to shower again and change my (now-literally-dripping) shirt. That's why air conditioning is a very good thing.

[JohnBckWLD]

Originally posted by Guinastasia
God bless whoever invented Air Conditioning!

Public Enemy #1: Willis Haviland Carrier

[TroubleAgain]

I live in central Florida. If it weren't for air conditioning, I'd be miserable all the time. Now, mind you, I don't want it set arctically low, but it helps if for no other reason than to remove the interminable humidity from the air so I can breathe! Oh, yes, and I cannot sleep in temperatures above 78 or so, and really prefer 73-74.

[Mockingbird]

Some of us need air conditioning for health reasons.

Just because you like to be hot doesn't mean everyone can tolerate it.

Because of having multiple sclerosis, my sensitivity to heat is very acute.

75 degrees to me is somewhat warm, and when it is over 80, I am uncomfortable.

Being at a constant temperature of over 85 degrees makes me feel lousy, I want to sleep, and it leads to a higher potential of exacerbation(more damage to myelin - which is what multiple sclerosis is).

So, some of us are very grateful for AC.

[modro]

Originally posted by twickster
(Gah. Who knew the last straw would be our respective a/c habits?)

twickster, when your respective a/c habits have become the last straw, one tends to believe that you probably should have broken up a long time ago.

My friend just broke up with his g/f after 3 years. Want to know what the last straw was? No one in her family could walk around the house lightly.

As for the OP...

Amen brother/sister! Nothing peeves me more than sitting in someone's house wearing my shorts and a t-shirt, shivering. And what is worse, the overused a/c makes it seem even hotter outside than it already is, due to the temperature difference between their 65 degree house, and the 90 degree outside air.

It's just wrong. Besides, how the hell am I supposed to scope some hot sweaty man flesh when the a/c is down to 26?

[Road Rash]

I like it cool. In cool weather, I can wear my fancy clothes and be comfortable. Another good thing about AC, at least for me, is the white noise. I have this ringing in my ear that does not go away. Generally I don't notice it, but if it gets too quiet, it hums.

A ceiling fan on about medium spin works too.

[LadyMack]

Spouse and I totally disagree on temps, but we usually compromise.
I spent night before last under an electric blanket, with the A.C. on, because I had a cold, but he is miserable if it's over 75* or so.
He can ride the motorcycles while wearing sleeveless shirts, and I'll have my leathers on.
Stores? Restaurants? I've finally given up on dressing for the season.
"Why, yes, I DO like sweaters, Miss halter-n-low-riders-showing-every-Thang. Now, where's the Hot Coffee?"

[Quantum Butterfly]

Posted by modro
Besides, how the hell am I supposed to scope some hot sweaty man flesh when the a/c is down to 26?

Mmm, hot sweaty man flesh! A definite perk of living in SoCal. Having said that, I do like A/C when used responsibly. Heat aggravates my seizures big time, and it's so nice to hang out in an air-conditioned coffee shop or something and actually be able to think. (No, our house does not have A/C. Which sucks.) I usually end up sleeping through the hottest part of the day when I'm at home, because I can't think through the heat-induced seizures to do anything else.

[Guinastasia]

We also have an older house that, before we got the AC, was a nightmare during the summer. And even with it, it still gets pretty bad upstairs, because there's only one vent, in the hall. When it's really hot, when we have to leave the AC on overnight, my sister will haul her mattress downstairs to sleep, because her room is so unbearably stuffy. I end up rearranging my room for the summer, putting my bed in the middle of the room right under my fan.

As for sleeping with blankets on, well, I like sleeping with at least a light sheet thrown over me-I don't sleep well without it. Before the AC, I used to actively dread the summertime. I remember scrunching up in my bed against the wall, because at least that was a little bit cool. I'd often take wet washcloths to bed with me as well.


For those without air conditioning, remember, keep your windows CLOSED. Don't open them. You may say, "huh? It's hot!" No, close the windows, and then pull the blinds, the shades and the curtains closed as well, to keep out the sun and the humidity. Then run the fans. It keeps the place cool and dark.

You don't have to have it set on -12. I think our's clicks on at about, oh, 73 degrees F?

[Lostboy]

I set my AC at 85 when its on at all-not only because I'm cheap, but because I hate walking outside after spending a couple of hours inside and sweating like a pig.
Usually just a ceiling fan, and a couple of open windows is good enough unless the humidity is too high.

[Mama Tiger]

When I was a child and we'd visit my grandparents in Fort Worth, I was always impressed with how my grandmother cooled her house in the summer. She'd open up the windows real early in the morning and leave them open till about 10 am, when the heat got above 80 or so. Then she'd turn on the AC for the afternoon and part of the evening. And by bedtime, the AC would get turned off but the house would stay cool till morning.

Of course, these days she's 102 and likes to keep her thermostat at about 95, but when I was much poorer I used her techniques to good effect to keep my AC bills down as low as possible.

This technique only works if there's not a lot of humidity, I hasten to add!!

[homercles]

Originally posted by Scantilly
During Spring I was still wearing a jumper (Australian for sweater) during the day and then it rained, deluged in fact, relentlessly, for 4 or 5 weeks.

So now that summer is finally here,kindly help me understand, why am I still wearing warm clothes and shivering at my desk at work?

/* OT warning */

Maybe someone else already addressed this, but its July AND its summer in Australia?

[ElwoodCuse]

Originally posted by JohnBckWLD
Public Enemy #1: Willis Haviland Carrier

Step off, G. Not only did he keep us all cool and fresh, he also saved the city of Syracuse from abandonment once people found other ways to obtain salt.



BTW--ironic fact for the day--The Carrier Dome, home of Syracuse University's football, basketball, and lacrosse teams, is not air-conditioned.

[RickJay]

75-80 is ridiculously hot for inside. The inside should be 70, preferably a little cooler at night.

Hey, if you're cold, put on a sweater. I can't take off my skin.

[IUHomer]

This is the one thing that annoys me about my wife. I absolutely hate sleeping when its hot. I can't do it. She, however, gets cold if it falls below 74 degrees. I love the AC and turn it on, it cools down to 72, she turns it off. We have a very narrow range where we are both comfortable at like 72-74 degrees.

I could not live without AC. I did in college and hated it. I don't see how anyone that has ever lived through a hot, muggy Midwestern summer could hate AC.

[Mockingbird]

Originally posted by modro


It's just wrong. Besides, how the hell am I supposed to scope some hot sweaty man flesh when the a/c is down to 26?

If you can't make their pulse race so they would sweat on a five degree day, you're doing something wrong.

[Hilarity N. Suze]

Originally posted by October
Heh. All y'all who are bitching about air conditioning obviously haven't lived in Texas. Specifically, Houston, which had the dubious honor of being the most air-conditioned city in the world, last time I checked. It gets so hot here (the 110% humidity kind of hot, not the tolerable dry heat kind of hot--the swamp dwellers know what I'm talking about) that when you leave your house to walk ten feet to your car, you're drenched. And then you have to get into a 130 degree car. It's really annoying if you've just taken a shower, are on your way to work, and--oh yeah, it's 7:30 in the morning. Oh yes, I like air conditioning...

I lived in Dallas, throughout one summer, with no AC. I didn't mind. That's because I had to freeze all day at my job, so when I came out and got into my hot car--it felt wonderful!

I realize I'm in the minority here. My best friend can't stand heat. It's very painful for me to drive her anywhere in the summer because I don't want to turn the AC on the the car, I don't! I don't! It only gets hot for about a month here, and it's extremely rare for the temp to get over 100 degrees F, but according to her, it's hot 8 months out of the year!

So, during the ONE month in the year when I'm comfortable, couldn't she just suffer? (No? Okay. I'll turn the AC on. Never mind.) And of course, if it's her car, then it's different. Driver's choice.

Back to Texas. The other thing that made the heat welcome was that all restaurants, movie theaters, and stores kept their AC set on STUN. I had to actually walk out of one movie because I was so . . . damn . . . . cold. I went out into the soft, starlit, humid night, and couldn't make myself go back in.

[thatDDperson]

I'm in Houston.

The AC at my mother's (currently unoccupied) home went out. House is closed up. One week, and there is freaking MOLD growing everywhere.

High humidity and high temps. Mold that you can scrape off the kitchen cabinets. Mold that you can scrape off the paneling. And mold that SOMEBODY will have to remove before we can remodel the house.

SOMEBODY is usually me, but not this time. Between the cancer meds that make it impossible to deal with heat or humidity and the mold allergies...it can't be me.

My AC guy says that opening the windows to improve the airflow would only help if it doesn't rain. Yeah, like THAT'S gonna happen.

And I cannot remove enough clothes to get comfortable in hot humid weather, so y'all put your jumpers/sweaters/fleece jackets on, or face seeing more chunky-old-lady-with-multiple-surgery-scars flesh than you EVER want to if you come to Houston.

[HPL]

I'm far more cold tolerant then I am hot. Hell, I once wore shorts on a snowy day, but I start to feel very uncomfortable once it gets over 80-85.

In my house, AC is needed in some rooms. The basement and first floor are comfortable enough with ceiling fans and open windows/doors, but the top of the house catches the sun 90% of time it's up, and without AC on the 2nd floor, the rooms there become unlivable (minumum 10 degrees hotter, with little air flow, then the rest of the house) On hot days it becomes an oven, literally.

We had the power go off for a day or so and had to abandon the 2nd floor for that day and night. Even at night it was far too hot to sleep up there, while the 1st floor was quite comfortable.

Basically, AC kicks total ass.

[HPL]

Oh, and I love cold, or at least cool weather. If it stayed in the 70's-high 60's all year I'd never complain. However, I rarely say "It's too cold"(down in the 30's or below), but am very likely to say "it's too hot".

[hazel-rah]

Small side note: ceiling fans running in rooms with no people in them make your house hotter, not cooler. Ceiling fans don't cool down the air, they make you feel cooler by increasing airflow across your body. If there's nobody in the room, turn off the fan.

[even sven]

I'm from Sacramento, so I understand the use of air conditioning well.

But an air conditioner is to make the temperature in the room more bearable- to take the edge off- not to sculpt the air into a completely different climate. I hate that in summer I have to carry a giant backpack full of extra clothes everywhere I go. Since I have to venture out into the un-airconditioned world to walk or catch the bus, just warm clothes out isn't an option. So I have to carry a sweater, a pair of pants, and most likely a thermal shirt just to deal with the temperature changes from bus to work to restraunts to home.

If we kept the world at around the temperature it is outside, we could all dress for the occasion, instead of having to prepare for am equator-to-north-pole journey every time we go outside. My guess is that the cold-grubbers never have to venture outside their cars and garages, so they can just pretend like it is winter all the time. Fat lot of good that does me.

And what is with the freezing houses? Don't you guys want to be able to be naked, or at least in shirt sleeves, in your homes? Nothing sucks more than curling up with a good book and a cup of tea- in your heavy jacket and sweatpants. My boyfriend will put on his heaviest clothes, and then drive around with all the windows open for no discernable reason. I don't understand. Do your limbs not cry out to be free? To feel fresh air? To move without tons of fabric obstructing them? Don't you know you are supposed to remove your heavy clothes when you enter a house and walk around in cooler, more comfortable clothes you conveinently wore underneath?

Then again, I'm the world's least fit woman of Scandanavian decent. I was clearly meant to be born in the tropics.

I can't stand the cold. At around seventy I get goosebumps. Not little goosebumps, but hard painful ones that cover my who body, from ankles and wrists to pubic hair. Then I get this terrible jawache. If it is in any way windy, the jawache extends to the ears and hurts like the worst thing possible for a good hour or two after I warm up. Then my fingers and toes start turning blue and my teeth chatter. In the winter I can hardly bring myself to get out of bed. If it is cold when I wake up, I won't wake up and I'll miss work. I get lethargic to the point of complete inactivity (except for my shivering).

So yeah, us heat-seekers get uncomfortable when were in the wrong temperatures, too. I hate when cold folks swear that their heat-related ailments are the only ones that are important. As if blue fingernails wern't something to get alarmed at. Let's just have some parity here. I'll admit that your discomfort is important if you admit that mine is, too. Okay?

[Mockingbird]

Originally posted by HPL
I'm far more cold tolerant then I am hot. Hell, I once wore shorts on a snowy day, but I start to feel very uncomfortable once it gets over 80-85.

In my house, AC is needed in some rooms. The basement and first floor are comfortable enough with ceiling fans and open windows/doors, but the top of the house catches the sun 90% of time it's up, and without AC on the 2nd floor, the rooms there become unlivable (minumum 10 degrees hotter, with little air flow, then the rest of the house) On hot days it becomes an oven, literally.

We had the power go off for a day or so and had to abandon the 2nd floor for that day and night. Even at night it was far too hot to sleep up there, while the 1st floor was quite comfortable.

Basically, AC kicks total ass.

Preach it, freon brotha!

[Doomtrain]

I live and grew up in the South. You can have my air conditioning when you pry it from my cold, climate controlled hands.

[Ponder Stibbons]

I can understand the sentiment in the OP coming from someone living in the mountains. And if you are somewhere where 80-90F is considered "hot", then you may even have a point.

On a side note, I've also noticed over the years that people who grow up in particularly cold climates seem to relish the heat.

I'm in Dallas, Texas. Anyone who "enjoys" this kind of heat is mentally unbalanced. A few years back we had a summer where it was above 100F for 67 straight days. I noticed an earlier poster lived here for a year and after working in a chilly environment during the day claimed to like the heat after hours. Hmmm, perhaps ... did you grow up in a very cold environment, by chance? Myself, although I work in an airconditioned office environment, I am frequently outside 10-12 hours a week cycling, and let me tell, it gets HOT! It's not at all the same heat as the person stepping out of that chilly office feels, it is freaking HOT. It's a dangerous hot. People DIE in this kind of heat.

Thank god for air conditioning!!

[whiterabbit]

Humidity is even worse than heat. Tropical storm Bill knocked out power out, and within a few hours of it going the house was already getting stuffy. Opening the windows admitted coolish but HUMID AS HELL air. Fortunately, the power company got their asses in gear and we got back power about 10:30 the next morning. I'd have hated to go several days without power, as the parental units did last year. I'm hoping it doesn't happen.

And for hot and humid lovers in this thread, I do not understand you any more than you understand us meat locker people. But if I'm in your car, I WILL ask you to turn the air on. Hate me for that if you want!

[Hilarity N. Suze]

But I DON'T WANT TO PUT A SWEATER ON. One month out of twelve I would like to be comfortable, thank you. I would like not to have to worry about this cold-induced rash I get, which looks ugly and itches. If it's 68 degrees in the office my hands will start turning purple. Am I supposed to wear gloves? The irony being that the temp in the office is all right the rest of the year.

I cannot buy a stylish sleeveless dress because however nice it looks on me in the store, it will not look that nice with a sweater.

I would like for my coworkers not to ask me if I'm not overheating in my sweater. "Gee--are you cold?" (No, idiot, I'm just too fucking stupid to take my sweater off--geez.) I can handle the fact that they're calling me things like "orchid" and "hothouse flower" but the fact is that sweaters or no, I can't really work efficiently when I'm shivering, and it's really quite impractical to wear long underwear under my silk trousers in July, on account of the commute.

[TVGuy]

It's alright dear, don't make a fuss, I'll have your air conditioning, I love it. In fact, I'm going to have HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, HVAC, baked beans and HVAC.....

No, really. Here in NW Oregon, where the webfoot people live, it's due to be close to 100 freakin' degrees Monday and Tuesday. I'm thinking that a really, really long work day followed immediately by a nice double feature at the local cineplex will be nice - anyting that places me back in my hot, non-air conditioned 1914 bungalow no earlier than midnight!

I keep telling myself that buying an air conditioner for the bedroom would be dumb, considering that I'll only use it 8 or ten days a summer. Let's see - this year, I'm at about 15 hot nights and counting...

So, while I feel your pain about the cool, wet, nasty summer, right at this moment, I'll trade!