Hot

[elfs]

It's hot. Let's not belabor the point. This is Seattle, where precious few people own air conditioners, and the price of a fan has doubled in the past 24 hours yet I bought one anyway. It's hot. Last night, I found every ice tray in the house and filled it; I made three quarts of lemonade and filled another bottle with three quarts of water. They probably won't last the day. I got the girls Slurpees. Only the yellowjackets are enjoying it.

technoshaman and jenkitty wandered over last night for dinner and conversation. We banished the girls downstairs while we chatted. Omaha made a wonderful chicken and egg noodle something, and Jen made a salad; I threw together a raspberry vinagrette at the last moment since we'd all forgotten about dressings. I bathed the girls, read to them, put them to bed. Nobody had much energy. Even at night, the temperature barely dropped into the low 70's. We bid our guests goodnight; it was too hot for anything other than sitting and talking. Yamaarashi-chan especially had trouble falling asleep in the heat.

Omaha's at some business meeting this afternoon for her radio syndicate. I've watered the front lawn and the side, and now the back; it's mostly an excuse to keep the girls cool. They're slathered in sunscreen. I'm taking the cheap way out and staying indoors, using both fans in the living room. We made egg salad and celery sandwiches for lunch.

Oh, and I got both of my burners working, the CD and the DVD. And I successfully (sorta) burned my first DVD last night, of some of the anime I'd collected over the years; The first six episodes of Chobits. Unfortunately, it did not have a menu on it, and the navigation is kinda weak. But it does work, I can watch the episodes on my television and free up disk space on the hard drive. I'm right now trying to burn the last six episodes, plus the weekend special, and I think this time I've figured out how the menuing and navigation works. It takes eight hours to compile an NTSC DVD from a collection of PAL avi's on my Athlon 2.1GhZ box. And I'm pretty sure the menus might show up the second time; the compiler asked for a whole bunch of additional tools it did not ask for compiling the first disk, all associated with the manufacture of still images and background sounds for DVD menus.

And I can now resume my Japanese lessons, since I can prepare CDs for the portable player again. Yay!

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

This year, at 93F even the Minnesotans are starting to complain it's hot. But at least it's reasonably dry where you are, which means convection cooling has a chance of working. One of those cheap spray bottles is a wonderful thing, if there's any sort of air movement at all. Get one for each munchkin and let them have a water fight.

[kakoukorakos.livejournal.com]

It must be the end of the world.

Seattle, hot?
Denver (in July), cool and perpetually rainy?

Something is wrong with this picture. I can't really complain too much because at least my forest and home aren't in danger of catching fire and burning down (it would take some work to get any sort of fire going), but the mud is getting old fast.

Hot?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a Southerner and a long-time fan of the Journal entries. I just had to write and comment how different our notions of "hot" are. For me, hot is daytime over 95, night-time over 85, and humidity over 90. I grew up with that kind of temperatures for a few weeks every summer and no A/C--I still prefer to avoid A/C. Anyway, hope you get through the heat wave with no damage.