At 5:30pm it’s 89°F outside and 80° in my home office: there are still 2.5 hours left of this online meeting (being held on the left coast), but I think they’ll be taking a break in 30 min and I’ll be able to make some dinner. I did briefly decamp to the kitchen table at around 4pm, but only reveled in the slightly cooler floor for a little while: I discovered that I’d forgotten to bring home my extra laptop power cord. 
Disconnecting everything from the docking station just to bring it downstairs for power would have been kind of ridiculous, so back upstairs I am. (I 
fans!) At least the sun is no longer shining directly on the house, so the inside temps are gradually cooling…gradually. It doesn’t help that this morning I changed the thermostat setting from 73 to 75, in a nod to today’s 92° high and the triple digits we’re expecting (again) tomorrow and Thursday.
I’d planned to not start working until around 10am today, due to knowing that I’d be in a meeting until 8pm, but of course there were two fires first thing so I’ve been working since 8am. A 12-hour day is what I get for looking at my email early. 
I’m hoping tomorrow – day 2 of this meeting – won’t follow suit. At least I won’t have to use any leave on Friday morning (mammogram); maybe I’ll also be able to start my weekend a little early.
Today was trash day, so when this meeting is over I’ll haul the biiiiiig can in from the curb and park it back in the garage…until I put it out again Thursday evening. I like that there are pickups twice a week here: at some point I’ll only need once a week, but while I’m still buying stuff for the house I’m generating a lot of trash.
I did find a Lego set on Amazon to order. 
It will be here on Thursday, and was ~20% cheaper than on the Lego site! I don’t remember ever seeing a difference like that before: usually, if something is available on the Lego site the price on Amazon is the same. Anyway, I’m getting the small Hogwarts set (for comparison, this is the big one).
I had mac & cheese pizza once: it was very good!
In my old house, at this time of year the late afternoon sun would hit the living room windows at a brutal angle: I started hanging a big room-darkening curtain in front of them every summer. It looked like crap, but made a huge difference in keeping the room/house cool!
When I drive home after work there’s one intersection where I need to make a left from the right lane, which is the only lane for right turns but is one of those “you can go left/straight/right” things. An amazing number of people who want to turn right become furious when the light changes and I actually stop vs making a left turn on red for them…horns beep, people zoom around me (when the next lane is empty) and turn in front of me, etc. Maryland drivers are insane.
What do you call a dog with no legs?
It doesn’t matter, they aren’t going to come when you call them.
Must be that time of year!
[It’s now 6:19pm – 3:19pm on the left coast – and this stupid meeting hasn’t taken a break yet. Meh! I’ll take the Bluetooth speaker downstairs and make dinner.]