Question It's raining and it's freezing and I'm sitting on a couch

All of the above is true. NSW has been a icebox the last few weeks. Today was colder than normal, and it's currently pouring with rain. It's really pissing me off, at least in the way that I just spent half the goddam day arguing with the morons on Trek BBS. They have this delusion going on that Star Trek Discovery is good. So, yeah. Consider this a status update. Not really any other point. <sigh>...How is everyone else??? Weather nice elsewhere in the world??? Things going well for you???

Las Monday my brother decided that sharing was caring and so shared whatever horrific virus he had with me and I've been sick for a week. Hacking up foul tasting flem, unable to write and barely able to think, all while fighting with the new air conditioner to deal with its evaporation water that for some reason escapes from every pipe I build for it to pour all over the floor.

Yeah, great times.

Yesterday it was 88 with a heat index of 97, oppressive humidity. I was essentially a motionless blob all day. Guys are so lucky. they can go shirtless. They don't have to deal with cleavage sweat or underboob sweat. or trying to go without a bra, and having the sweat adhere your shirt in a form-fitting way, thus making you put on a bra that gets all sweaty and gross.

It's currently 89° with a Temp Humidity Index of 100°, and it's supposed to get up to 93. Same as yesterday and tomorrow. Last Sunday (the 10th) we had multiple thunderstorms and two very weak tornados.

Sunny, 90.9 F, Windchill: 95.5 F, Heat Index: 103.1 F, but the air's kind of dry at 62.0 % rel. humidity

Back yard could use mowing:

Rose Bunny wrote: Yesterday it was 88 with a heat index of 97, oppressive humidity. I was essentially a motionless blob all day. Guys are so lucky. they can go shirtless. They don't have to deal with cleavage sweat or underboob sweat. or trying to go without a bra, and having the sweat adhere your shirt in a form-fitting way, thus making you put on a bra that gets all sweaty and gross.

I give you that for staying at home in hot weather. Also for formal wear in the winter, where despite how freezing it may be, women are expected to wear thin clothes and show a lot of skin. Oh, and wear heels in the snow (although that's not a problem where I live).

OTOH, formal/business wear in hot weather with no air conditioning (becoming less common nowadays, but still happens) is an invitation for heatstroke on every man...

Generally speaking, other than the "men can go shirtless" extremely informal situation (which I do take advantage of in the summer), Western dress mores seem to imply that women dress for hot weather, men dress for cold weather.

Also, there's a minor exception to the "shirtless advantage" for men: many public venues (amusement parks, fast food joints etc.) won't allow shirtless men... but will allow women wearing a bikini top instead of a shirt.

It's too hot in London.

But i'm from Scotland, so it's always too hot.

Been in the 90s here in Knoxville too, and that's going to continue for two more days. Then we'll drop into the high 80s. Yay. And we're not getting any nice lows at night like Kristin has. It's 74F right now at about 3:30.

On the plus side, it doesn't get cold enough to warrant running the heater much in the winter, and I value fresh air and birdsong more than cool, dry air in the summer so I leave the window open and use a fan instead of AC. Result is an average electric bill of just $35/mo, mostly due to running my PC. It also means I'm forced to acclimate to the weather more and don't have the walking-into-a-wall-of-heat issue that AC addicts get when they go outside. I spend little enough time outdoors as it is; I don't need additional encouragement to stay inside. Especially in the summer when we've got those free jazz concerts in Market Square each week.

Speaking of which, I need to go peruse some maps before I forget again. I keep running into surprise construction, so then I improvise a new route and end up making a nuisance of myself by trying turn into one-way streets, not realizing I'm in a turning lane, and other dumbfuckery. This week I intend to know the lay of the land.

Rose Bunny wrote: Yesterday it was 88 with a heat index of 97, oppressive humidity. I was essentially a motionless blob all day. Guys are so lucky. they can go shirtless. They don't have to deal with cleavage sweat or underboob sweat. or trying to go without a bra, and having the sweat adhere your shirt in a form-fitting way, thus making you put on a bra that gets all sweaty and gross.

Honestly, you can't go wrong with putting your feet in a bucket of cold water. It's the old school, international solution when even the window air conditioners aren't cutting it.

Posted from a particularly oppressive dew point of 72°F (22C) today.

Down here is winter. Perfect time to curl under a blanket with a mug of Earl Grey.

And, kettlekorn... If you keep running into changed routes due to construction and whatnot... Waze is your friend.

Just so all you all down below the equator can feel jealous, here is approximately where I worked today: www.accuweather.com/en/us/lakehead-ca/96...ther-forecast/342488 I actually spent most of my day cleaning trash off from the parking lot for the Antlers boat ramp....

Sir Lee wrote: And, kettlekorn... If you keep running into changed routes due to construction and whatnot... Waze is your friend.

Didn't try the actual app, but I found a city-run website with both official traffic data and Waze data. Neither of which showed the construction in question, which turned out to still be there. But I anticipated that and this time had some planned backup routes that I'd scouted on street-view. So it all worked out.

I also reviewed the previous trip, and it turns out the reason I was so confused last time around is that the lanes were apparently reallocated at some point in the past. I never used the previous version, so it wasn't bad memories. It was alignment issues. The road was seemingly designed with the assumption of right-turn lanes, but at some point they converted those into normal lanes and made the left lanes into left-turn lanes. This left the normal lanes misaligned with the other side of the intersections. I kept getting to an intersection, noticing the alignment problem, then noticing the solid white line between the right and left lanes, and I'd incorrectly assume that I must be in a turning lane, so I'd turn to avoid being a hazard. Except in the case where that was a one-way road going the other direction, which I managed to notice in time to look like a moron without actually turning onto it.

This week went much better. Planning matters.

Anne wrote: Just so all you all down below the equator can feel jealous, here is approximately where I worked today: www.accuweather.com/en/us/lakehead-ca/96...ther-forecast/342488 I actually spent most of my day cleaning trash off from the parking lot for the Antlers boat ramp....

Is that so? It reads 20°C to me. Nice cool weather, for summer.

But then, the same site reports 24°C for my hometown. In winter.
www.accuweather.com/en/br/sao-paulo/4588...ather-forecast/45881