heat_event raze that's what they're calling what the weather's doing right now. i call it a bag of wet, runny shit we all get to stew in for a while. the humidity squeezes the heat until it adds up to a hundred and fifteen degrees, and i try not to choke on sand i can't see. the moth resting on the other side of the stock room window is too hot to move. even the birds don't want a thing to do with a day like this. today we bathe in it. tomorrow we'll do our best to wade through the mess it leaves behind. 220615 ... raze i don't know how i slept through the first phase. but i did. then i walked through its second wind as morning bled into afternoon. now i'm home again. the aluminum body of my macbook is a salve against my skin. it's cooler than it has any right to be. cooler than any part of me. even my elbows are sweating. 220616 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Ugh, I hate the stifling humid heat. I hope that's over with now. It wasn't so hot here yesterday, but sweltering earlier today on the way from Cardiff to Glastonbury (why don't you ALL have air conditioning, buses?) 220617 ... raze they said the sequel was set to last for seventy-two hours. it's almost over. cooler air is coming in tonight to take the edge off. respite from these wet, brine-cured lips and the runnel of saltwater that's pooled at the summit of my sternum. until the next heat_wave hits. 220622 ... raze no break until sunday this time. if i ever hear anyone say anything about canada being cold again, i'm gonna spit. and it'll start to smoke the second it hits the sidewalk. pray for me. 220720 ... e_o_i It was only 30C here, not like the 40C in London, England (I was talking to David about that tonight - at least he's not there, but in Toronto on vacation). Still, with the humidity a friggin 60% in the afternoon, stepping outside felt like entering a sauna. 220720 ... e_o_i Well, David wouldn't be THERE there. Oxford, not London. And smaller cities are generally cooler. London, Ontario apparently has a tornado warning tomorrow? Mount Real of Kebbia, just thunderstorms. raze, you already have colloquial coolness but I wish you more of the temperature-based kind. May AC units and fans not forsake thee. (said on my authority as high priestess of the Presbyterian Order of Tech Support; we're like the Masons, but you can redeem your Christian Karma points for discounts at all three of our Canadian retail locations) 220720 ... raze you're a kind soul, e_o_i. i hope you know how much i appreciate you thinking of me. my bedroom just happens to be on the one floor of this house where no air comes out of any of the vents (shoddy ancient ducting job and dishonest landlord, ahoy). so i tend to boil a bit during the summer. i've got a good pedestal fan that's still going strong after close to twenty years of steady use, but the window in my room doesn't open. if i didn't have a window air conditioner constantly running in the room across the hall from mine, i'm not sure i'd make it. i know a lot of other people have it much worse. but i dream of a day when i can sleep through the night at this time of year without sweating off half my body weight. fifteen summers of this have taken their toll. i could always try sleeping in the fridge. i think i just might fit in there if i rip out all the shelves! do you think a bag of sliced cheese would make a good pillow? on second thought, a bed of mixed greens is probably the safer bet. and if i get hungry, i can always whip up a midnight salad. 220721 ... past the humidity and ambient temperature are both a bit more bearable at (or better yet, in) the river. even a block from its banks the heat presses in that much more oppressively. 220721 ... raze trouble. trouble. the enwin bill is gonna double. 220722 ... raze i can lie beneath the covers without my legs sticking together like they've been slathered with glue. it's the greatest thing. or it will be, for as long as it lasts this time. 220725 what's it to you? who go blather from