Heat brags!

[sistawendy]

1. Most of you know that my usual commute method is Goldiebike. I've ridden the 14-mile round trip every day this week, and will tomorrow as well. Even my Turkish & Indian co-workers think I'm one crazy haole. Mind you, I'm not so crazy that I haven't been using a second water bottle. And I'm grateful to all the landowners on 140th Ave. NE who didn't cut down their trees, providing much-needed shade along at least a third of my route. If you had to be outdoors and out of the water, a bike was the best place to be, and there were plenty of people who knew it even yesterday.
2. Every day for the last week I've spent some time pulling dandelions out of the Abbey lawn. I finished tonight. The brown grass & dry soil make the little bastards easier to see and pull, respectively.
3. A negative brag: I woke up this morning at 6:00 because the fan made it too cool for me to sleep without any cover. Nibs watched in disbelief as I padded to the linen closet, got a sheet, got under it, and started snoring.

We've read the heat whines. Mr. and Ms. Pacific Northwest, what are your heat BRAGS? You're going to need the practice, because thanks to all the Hummers & coal-fired powerplants, weeks like this one are about to get more common.

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Saw Blue Angels almost overhead at 140th & Main in Bellevue as I rode to work. Yeah, I like them, too.

Comments

[evillinn.livejournal.com]

Heat brags: I actually enjoyed walking out of my air conditioned building into the heat yesterday afternoon. Admittedly, I wouldn't have lasted much more than the 5 block walk home, but it was kind of fun, the same way the snow is fun for a bit.

I've done fairly well simply laying low in a dampened tank top, drinking lots of water and reading these afternoons/evenings - this all taking place in an apartment that gets a ton of afternoon sun.

I think I've even found a way to help my animals deal - surrounding their resting places with frozen water bottles.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Great minds think alike. Nibs gets one of her medications in a styrofoam box with gel packs to keep it cool. She's been freezing the gel packs and putting them on Her Puppiness.

[evillinn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was really thrilled to find something that seemed to do some good. I feel horrible for the little guys, and I've got to imagine life is worse for a black lab.

[caladri.livejournal.com]

You have Turkish coworkers who say haole!? Awesome.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

I didn't kill anyone.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

I had a feeling you might say that. Congratulations!

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

There's still time.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

One of the interesting things about biking is that when it's really hot, at zero speed you're hot, at moderate speed the wind you get does more to cool you off than at zero speed, and at high speed you're back to being hot, so you can cruise around in more comfort than the people standing there watching you.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Well spake. I seldom ride hard, and never on the way to work.

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

You grew up in Florida. We like it hot and wet.

[lilithvf1998.livejournal.com]

The temperature is still not as hot as it has gotten in Texas. It's MERELY normal Texas summer weather. At least, what passed as normal when I was a kid.

Texas summer. In Washington.

*retches in disgust*

DAMN YOU CAR-DRIVERS! IT USED TO BE *NICE*! :)

But yeah, nothing I haven't seen before.

So in the middle of the worst, I searched Google for "Bellevue Washington weather". It helpfully told me it was 120 degrees.

I laughed and called Google wussies.