Same here, as a matter of fact. It’s hot and humid already. Just checked the weather, it’s 79 at 9 AM, “feels like” 83, and there’s a humidity of 82%. Already. Tomorrow looks hot, too. But Thursday looks like it will cool down.
I would like to order some autumn, please. High of 20, tops.
**Rosie ** - sounds like that guy is a candidate for this website - a place to warn women about certain men! I haven’t read the particulars of how the site works – a friend told me about it and I thought it was funny.
Tel - I’ve generally always used just one response for window-yellers. Flipping the bird. Of course, this is the NYC area, so nobody’s really phased by this. In fact, when my girl scouts were in 5th grade, I started enlisting them to flip off tailgaters on the way home from our outings. (Appropriate use of bird is an important life skill, you know.) If I’m feeling clever, I’ll come up with a comment – like a compliment on how nice their car is if they’re driving a POS. There’s usually no time to exchange words as they speed by (which is good, because that can be dangerous), but it makes me feel better. Really, though, I just try to ignore them, pray they will someday be more civilized, and feel thankful that I don’t associate with people who do that.
Happy birthday to the recent birthday revelers. I don’t sing. Anytime you hear **rosie ** sing, just pretend it’s me. I’m sure I sound just like that. Really.
Mika - congrats on the apartment! It sounds great. You must feel so much better!
SCL - my oven is tempermental like that, too. It’s so frustrating! The only thing that saves me is that I wouldn’t turn it on in this heat, anyway. We’re trying new recipes like yummy cold cuke soup instead! It’s gooood.
It’s August. It’s hot. It’s supposed to be.
I’m staring at this invoice. It’s an invoice for mops. It makes no sense. I need a shop manager now! Oh well, off to figure out just what it is these people want from me.
Thanks ! 
Oh, yeah. In the interest of full disclosure, I have just been reading the second Lynn Flewelling trilogy, and it’s very very good and creepy. Attacks Husband lent both to me. The first is the Nightrunner trio- Luck in the Shadows, Stalking Darkness, Traitor’s Moon- and the second is the Tamir saga- The Bone Doll’s Twin, Hidden Warrior, Oracle’s Queen. It’s about a kingdom that has to be ruled by a woman, the usurper King, and a girl magically disguised as a boy. And her dead haunting twin. It’s great.
I may have turned 45 yesterday (and a big MMP thank you for all of the birfday wishes), but I ain’t a geezer yet. I’m getting quite annoyed at all of the whining about the heat.
The local Channel 13 weather [del]idiot[/del] guy reiterating ad nauseum about how dangerous it is outside, and he’s the same clown who described +20F as bitterly cold.
The global warming Nazis who blame it all on us.
My wife, who DROVE 200 feet to the mailbox instead of walking it yesterday.
Suck it up, drink your water, and deal with it, people.
Where’s my cane? I wanna whack somebody…
Good morning, all. Husband has taken my car to the dealer to get whatever it is fixed so that it can pass the emissions test. My life is full o’ glamour.
I am off to Jewel (think Kroger, Safeway or even Piggly-Wiggly–for the international MMPer–think Tesco). I need stuff.
I make a list and when I remember to take it with me AND use it in the store, I do fine. This is not a common occurrence, though. I am also somewhat off food at all (heat=no eating for me. No, not even fruit or salad–I’m hungry, but nauseated in the heat), so grocery shopping is a PIA, since the rest of the family doesn’t share my no eating thing. I’ve lost 3 pounds, though-all to the good.
Iffen it stays this wretched out, I will spend the day cleaning the laundry room. I know, I know–you’re envious. Maybe someday, you too can spend a summer’s day doing the same thing. Confidence and courage, grasshopper.
I’d like to point out I like the heat and don’t want winter back noway, nohow. I am a little weary at the thought of moving in this heat, but other than that I love it.
And I am really excited at the thought of setting up and decorating a new apartment. Oh, work sucks! Why do I have to be here instead of there?
Me, too. And you’d think an old fat guy like me would try to hover near an air conditioner.
My favorite part of the day is the 2 hours that bracket sunrise, when it’s hot summer humid. The cotton fields get quite foggy during that time, and it makes the 40 miles to work worth it…
Ah, yes, the heat. I’m gonna pretend that y’all are asking why Flawduh what sticks out way down south doesn’t get hotter n’ say, Toronto? Well, I’ll answer, it’s cause being that we do “stick out,” we get coolin effects between two bodies of water. Envy me alla y’all. 
I always use a list at the grocery store. I take too long shopping as it is. It would be way longer if I shuffled up each aisle, looking at everything, and trying to remember if I need it or not. I generally don’t impulse buy but even so I am amazed at bobbio’s average bill of $80. I consider myself doing well if I only spend twice that.
My old cooktop was possessed. It had touchpad controls and sometimes all of the burner controls would go on at once on the highest setting. My new cooktop has actual knobs. How 20th Century! But they work like they are supposed to. Whoever thought touchpad controls on something that heats up was not thinking things through entirely. I’m just sayin…
Mr. Anachi and I put up the Badminton net last night and played for about a half hour. We are both pretty rusty and spent more time running after the shuttlecock <snerk> than actually vollying back and forth. We’ll get there though.
I think burgers on the grill would be really good tonight.
Sorry, we’re fresh out. We should be getting a new shipment around mid-September. Try back then. 
Conditions in Panama City are, surprisingly, about the same as in Albany, NY and Albany, GA. Life’s little oddities sure are … odd … sometimes.
Yesterday I did the whole physical exercise thing again. This really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Too much effort. Fortunately, I had enough energy afterwards to write this absolutely smashing pun:
For two days now I’ve overslept my alarm by half an hour. Pfeh.
Puggy I was thinkin’ the same thing about burgers on the grill tonight. Guess that’s why I took those frozen hamburgers out of the freezer last night. I took out some bacon too. Bacon cheeseburgers…YUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMM!!! And tater (N.O.T.) chips. And ice cold beer. OOH! And I got lettuce, maters, and dill pickles! Everybody sing! 
Happy Birthday, Bobbio!, also. I forgot that, apparently.
Thanks, everyone for all the advice. I actually haven’t seen Roommate in two days, because he’s gotten all smart and just leaves the house until after I’m asleep. I’m off today, though, but I’m going to trick him, because I have to go in for an unemployment hearing for someone who got fired a while back. He’ll think that I’m going to be gone allll night, and then BAM! Herpes.
Kicking him out right now isn’t financially feasible, but Fourth Roommate will be here in around a week, so we’ll look then. I really just want to sit down with him and let him know he’s not doing so well right now.
Happy birthday to you too, despite your protesting, because I didn’t wish you one last week.
My husband is an Extreme Shopper. He’s really, really good at it – although as my daughter says, he does tend to buy two of everything. He hates to run out.
Regarding chocolate, my former doggie (the one clinging to life, sorta) ate quite a bit of chocolate in her lifetime! Like Pixisis’s pooch, she consumed most of a bag of Hershey’s Kisses; all that was left were teeny, chocolate-free bits of foil.
Meeks, I’m so glad to hear you’re fixed for living space!
It is August and it IS hot. It just seems hotter than usual. My mother has been gone for three weeks and is coming back tonight. Last night I trotted down to her house to turn the A/C back down; she’d set it on 87. It actually felt cool in there! Every other time I’d ventured in, it was like an oven. So, it was so hot last night in Lexington, Ky., that 87-degree air-conditioning actually felt cool.
Baby Cherry continues merry – although he’s sporting a horrible bruise on his forehead, the result of an “I don’t want to stop lobbing my cars at the television set” tantrum. Toddlers!
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Another glorious fun filled day at work. Of course with the weather like it is, I wouldn’t go outside even if I was off. I miss my parents new $7k air conditioner. That kept things cooler than the old thing at my apartment.
bobbio, you’re only 45? I have cookware older than that. mainly because when my parents moved from N.C., they dumped all their old stuff on me.
LiLi, I’ll take 20. Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Twinks, I am only using the microwave, Foreman “grill”, or maybe one burner for cooking.
Mika, I don’t envy you moving. Next time I have to, I’m just going to burn it all and start over.
Puggy, I don’t use a list. I just buy what I’m out of. and what’s on sale. and anything new I might like.
I’m sorry, what? what? or what? Oh! you mean Waldbaum’s, King Kullen, Stop & Shop, or D’Agostino’s!
Also, Swampy, you should post a picture of you with your swarthiness-inducing new sunglasses.
Or Stew Leonard’s! You’ve got to get yourself one of those! The nearest on to me is about 40 minutes away. I think I’ll go there today – it’s been awhile since I’ve done any grocery shopping, and we only have 10mm of skim milk left in the gallon jug!
You have got to be kidding! What scum.
All of that is supposed to be worked out online before the first date.