Here in Phoenix, Arizona an excessive heat advisory. It is not the hottest I have seen it. When I first moved here it hit 123 degrees one day. That day the airport was closed down for awhile because the aircraft safety booklets did not calculate weather conditions past 120 degrees. I live in a large house with two air conditioning systems. One was slowing down so we had it fixed a few weeks back. Now the other one is slowing down…sigh. We have our A/C set to 77 degree on both systems, but one side of the house is up to 81 degrees and the other up to 80 degrees.
Our dogs are lying with their bellies on the tile to cool off and we have the ceiling fans thrumming along. Unfortunately, every house I have ever owned, the hottest rooms seem to be where I put my computer and where I put my bed. The computer makes it even hotter because I have two big systems in one room without a vent, so I leave the den doors opens. Probably close to 88 degrees as I type this. My main computer has a liquid radiator and coolant, plus six big fans in the case, but if it gets much hotter, I might have to shut it down for a bit.
I am the rare blogger in that I don’t usually blog on my blog. I like to put up cool stuff, photos, humor, dogs and writing samples. So here is a real blog post. Me and my dogs sweating in our house, feeling hot. My wife is off helping our daughter Heather move. I hope they are in A/C to do it. I think they were just packing up boxes.
Oh, and my day started off by killing another scorpion. Even they are trying to get out of the heat. We get bark scorpions because we live on the side of a mountain. I lived in Arizona for about twenty years and only saw one scorpion out in the desert. Now we live on the mountain we get them all the time. The bark scorpions are small and frail looking but are the most venomous of all. They are also the only scorpions that can climb on ceilings and hang upside down. My wife was stung by one a few years ago in our bed. We could not sleep in it for weeks without turning on the lights and fluffing out all the sheets and covers for examination.
I hope your day is less hot and more enjoyable.
Michael Bradley - Time Traveler 