I have no air conditioning, the temperature in here is 100 degrees, and now that the holiday’s over, the neighbours have started with the fucking loud renovation noise again. (And before any Americans ask, July 1 is a holiday in Canada. July 2 was a holiday too because July 1 was on the weekend.)
Fuck this noise (literally - for the noise part, not the fucking part.)
Between the heat and the noise, I haven’t gotten any work done lately. Arrgh. Not to mention having so little sleep in such a hot place.
It’s not supposed to be this hot in Canada.
It’s 100 degrees in Canada? Isn’t your water boiling?!
109 in Trenton, may be a biiig T-storm in an hour, keeping watch. This is, literally, the hottest outdoor temp I’ve ever experienced in terms of heat + humidity; it was 110 in Vegas last week when we were there but, ya know, it was dry heat . . .
Our brave little portable ACs are struggling to keep two of our rooms non-deathly.
kayaker, I said 100 degrees so other board members would understand how hot it is. 
I should’ve specified Fahrenheit, but it does kind of feel like 100 Celsius. It feels like the water could indeed boil. When I put ice cubes in my water bottle, they melt very quickly.
These few days have been the hottest outdoor temperatures I’ve ever experienced - and I’ve been to Italy in the summer.
Why can’t people be direct? It’s so awkward.
Text from friend: Hi there! Are you working today?
Me: (thinking to myself - Um, I wonder what she wants. I mean, I’m not working, but I have stuff to do, so if she want to go to lunch that’s great, but dinner is out because of my meeting) I reply, “No, I’m not”
Friend: Oh, good, Big favor…can you help me move today?
So then I have to explain that while I am not working, I have a things to do scattered through out the day and I don’t really have a chunk of time where helping someone move would fit in.
How about, “Hey there! Are you free to help me move today?” or even better ask me last week and I could have made plans to be available.
My mom does this to me a lot. “Are you busy tomorrow?” Um, well, I’m busy if you want me to drive to Petaluma with you, but I’m not busy if you want me to come over and help out around the house for a couple of hours.
The heat is awful here in the Boston suburbs, too.
And I’m house (pet) sitting for a friend for a couple weeks while she grandmothers her daughter and new grandkid AND SHE HAS NO AC. NONE.
The only way I’ve found to keep from melting is to fill a five gallon bucket with straight from the tap cold water. Perch on chair with fan blowing directly on me, stick legs/feet in water — aaaaaah! Okay, every ninety minutes or so I have to change the water, but it cools my body temperature enough that I’m not even sweating most of the time.
Added: and my feet are getting to be really, really smooth!
Y’all are all snowflakes about the heat;). You should live in the deep south.
I kid, nobody can deal with high temps without complaining. A/C, swimming, cold showers, cold drinks, and being lazy. That’s about all you can do.
Never realized tonight wasn’t a good restaurant night. Just drove around for an hour, but nowhere (we’d eat) is open.
Same here. Stopped by a long-time favorite restaurant, and all the lights were off. The vintage “Restaurant Hours” sign says *Monday: 630-9, Tuesday: CLOSED, Wednesday: 630-9… *
How long has that sign been there? Looks like years. Have I just never tried them on a Tuesday… for the last twenty years? And I’d expect being closed Mondays, but Tuesdays?
Big crowds at the mall bathrooms last night, due to a festival. The bathroom attendant let groups of people in at a time. But apparently, between each group, she sprayed the whole bathroom with large amounts of air freshener. I went into the bathroom and choked on the cloud of air freshener (and yes, it was such a big thick cloud that it was actually visible!)
I think I’d rather have a public bathroom that’s a bit smelly, than one where I’m having trouble breathing because of air-freshener fog. A bit of air freshener is okay, but the whole bathroom? 
Later on, I was walking outside behind a group of people smoking, which I don’t like, but I didn’t even find it as annoying as the air freshener.
Cough cough cough…here we are getting the wild fire smoke. Lazy crazy hazy days of summer out west!
With fireworks, indeed. Had the stupid fireworks people last night. Randomly started shooting them off at around 11PM for no reason, and, for some reason, it’s louder in my room than anywhere in the house. Fireworks should be done when it gets dark, IMO
Normally wouldn’t upset me much, but I actually was plum tired and trying to sleep, and I’d already waited. And my dogs do not like fireworks, so I had to be half asleep trying to comfort them.
Have you ruled out contacts as an option? Or even laser surgery?
Did you ever look a butterfly square in the face? <shudder>
Shouulda tried lighting up in the loo. Maybe the FWHOOMPF! when the air freshener ignited would have clued the attendant in…
I kinda ignore the face for the pretty wings!
One wonders what they think when they look at us?
Pontooning on the Allegheny River today. Beautiful day except it was hot af. Saw a bald eagle though (awfully appropriate for the 4th).
I think somebody in our neighborhood was intentionally setting off firecrackers to wake people up. Around 1:30 AM, one firecracker went off and it woke me up. I drifted towards sleep and then just as I fell asleep, one more firecracker. It happened four times.
Heh. The whole reason for pitting my eagle sighting was the shitty picture I got. I wanted to do a u-turn and drift by closer to get a good picture. My gf argued that it was better not to bother the bird.
Mini-rant? Mini-rant: 'Beamer, being autistic, is stubborn about his food choices. I am trying to get him to widen his food options. I made Kodiak waffles today (whole grain mix, high protein), and then we spent 20 minutes working up to trying a bite. After he tried it, he was fine. He’ll even try them again, he says. That and the bacon was just slightly too old, so it cooked funny and tasted funny. I let the kids eat it. Yep. I’m evil.