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It was a last minute idea when I pulled into the gas station this morning and saw the kiosk there. My work blocks a TON of websites, so I can’t really watch anything online. At least it was only $2 wasted. But don’t worry, I’m on my typewriter right now composing an angry letter to mail them.
Well, the postal buggy is coming by at 4 p.m., and the shadow on the sundial tells me that’s not far away. Better get crackin’.
Unfortunately it’s taking its sweet time. I’ve already finished the 3 days of medication and while it feels better, it is definitely not gone. This always happens when I start back on birth control. For the first time in 2 years, my period was only 7 days long and not at all horrifically painful so of course it ends with a yeast infection.
This was the first June ON RECORD where every day got up above 90. No record breaking extremes, just hot and more hot and some more hot in case you wanted some. Ugh.
It’s been damn hot here (but no hotter than usual), but my main beef is with the complete lack of rain and the constant wind. I never remember a spring like this where we got so little moisture (humidity levels have been hovering around 11%…that’s damn low) and so much constant wind. Half of the state is on fire it seems, and you can smell the burning and see a haze of smoke everywhere. If we don’t get some rain soon it’s going to be VERY ugly here. The Rio Grande is down to a trickle it seems and everything is like a tinder box just waiting for some idiot with a match to turn the other half of the state into a charred ruin. They finally started getting stores to stop sales of fireworks, but I am dreading this weekend with all the idiots who are going to be setting off fireworks despite the fact that everything is bone dry around here.
-XT
So, what you’re trying to tell me is, you guys have been stealing our heat, while we’ve been stealing your rain?
Roughly where are you, Zsofia? Cuz that sounds like fucking PARADISE.
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So, what you’re trying to tell me is, you guys have been stealing our heat, while we’ve been stealing your rain?
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I look at the flooding happening in the north east parts of the country and just shake my head and wish there was some way you could send it all down here. All that water going to waste and flooding peoples houses and we are bone dry and desperate for the stuff. As for heat, feel free to take all you want…we’ll always have more…
-XT
Our neighborhood is used as a cut-through for a lot of traffic, because the main drag through this area is extremely busy at rush hour. Cars are trying to get from Clackamas to Portland and back again. So assholes blow through here at a pretty good clip. Nothing anybody can do about it. I just wish they would pay attention to the stop signs. Some jerkoff gave me the “what the fuck” gesture today as I drove through an intersection where I had the right of way and blew my horn at him because he was going to drive through it as if it were a 4-way stop. Fuck off, dipshit.
I’m waiting for a major collision at the corner near our house. People blast down this street because it’s a bike boulevard without stop signs, but don’t realize that other morons like themselves are thinking this corner is a 4-way. When it happens, I’m going to go out to the wreck with a beer in my hand and point and laugh while they bleed.
South Caro-fucking-lina. Don’t worry, I’ll be back in February to make fun of the people with the snow.
ETA - it is not a dry heat.
Ye gods. You’ve had a 30-day long heat wave?
That’s really heinous.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. It just so happens that every day in June was over 90. That doesn’t mean it just started June 1 or that it’s over (it isn’t.) Every year in South Carolina we have a heat wave - it starts sometime in May and stops roundabout mid-September.
Amazing what a few hundred miles will do. I don’t remember having every day in the 90s when I lived in NoVA, and it certainly isn’t the case now in PA. Actually, the last few days have been nice. Mid 80s, but little or no humidity and a good breeze. Windows open, no AC, saving e-lec-tri-ci-ty!
My rant is that yesterday I found out I have fairly advanced osteoarthritis in my spine. The vertebrae in my neck, instead of being a nice square shape, evenly spaced, and curved, are instead stacked pretty much straight up, have little space between, and look like a rat’s been gnawing on them. Plus I have a couple of bone spurs that are this close -||- to touching (and therefore fusing), and the base of my skull is resting on top of my top vertebrae.
Ouch.
So, physical therapy for me, and here’s hoping it works. 
It’s been above 30 degrees Celsius here pretty much constantly for the six-eight weeks, with crushing humidity. Our office just today received a portable air conditioner to replace the air conditioning unit that’s been out of action since last summer. It lasted all of two minutes before it blew some fuse and took half of the Computer Science department’s equipment down with it.
Even worse is my bedroom at home. My window looks out onto a sheltered terrace so no wind can blow into my room. However, the sun can shine directly through the window for most of the day. Further, there’s some sort of boiler directly under my bedroom that transmits warmth through the stone flooring for a real Roman hypocaust effect, sending the room temperatures to unbearable levels. Naturally, we have air conditioning, but it’s broken. No amount of fans, open windows, blinds, shutters etc. can assuage my caloric nightmare.
Just pardon me while I stack some of these raw clay pots around your room. We’ll be back for them later in the week.
Oh, and by the way, we’re pouring a concrete wall - it will take some time to cure. 
Seriously, you have my sympathy. I have a brand new (well, as of last year) air conditioner which is a billion times more efficient than my old one, saves me a hundred bucks a month in the high summer, but it’s struggling to get the heat down in the house before I go to bed. I may have to give in and tell my programmable thermostat to start that whole cooling thing a few hours early.
Here in the Bay area…
Tuesday: Rain (and we almost never get rain this time of year), highs in the 60s.
Friday: 100 degrees.
I recently spent 10 days camping just outside of Santa Fe, and the wind the wind MY GOD THE WIND. It never stopped! Wind at night, hot wind during the day, we got eaten alive by bugs because our bodies were the only source of liquid for miles. I feel your pain - those 10 days were hard camping.
Hot and humid. I do not miss the humidity from back home. Nor the bugs.
I really liked that pouring down rain too. Today’s furnace not so much.
2nd July, middle day of the year. Things can only get better, right?