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I tell people. "Don't visit California in the summer. Everyone does it, it's hot as hell and I never figure out WHY they do. It's HOT HOT HOT and all the prices are higher. I don't get it. Come the week between Christmas and New Years. Seriously."
And my memory is long enough to know in a few weeks...perhaps even a few more than that? Perfect weather. Crystal-clear October blue skies, crisp days - but not freezing. CLEAR as you could like - yes, the postcards were taken sometime - just as the harvest festivals swing into full gear.
This is not the pretty time in California.
I also know how expensive A/C is to install, to run and to maintain. It's also an incredible ecological SUCK on more than four fronts. I grew up in Hemet, with only one cooler in a converted garage. I know hot. I've watched more silent films, checked out from the library, in the dark (because that's the coolest place you can find), during the summer than you can name. Wet t-shirts are not sexay, they're personal evaporation coolers.
You go share A/C someplace it has to be run. Hotel lobbies. Restaurant lounges (ghads, I've spent a small fortune on Pacman at the Denny's in Hemet in the lounge. They still have it there? The sit-down version - not the arcade one). Libraries, sure.
I have to venture out sometime today - the cat litter runneth under and I couldn't lift the 40 lb. bags yesterday. Dopey me forgot she had a blood donation appointment Saturday AM (BTW, BP at donation? 118/70 - NO MEDS. *preen*), and thus had the bandage o'doom on arm and couldn't lift more than her purse all day yesterday. (Didn't stop me from getting the bedroom clutter under control, framing everything I had to get framed, converting the odd pieces of VHS to digital and such yesterday. I was busy!)
Today - I'll have to call AAA and see if they know of anyone open today to replace a tire. Jim blew a tire on the way home from work yesterday - too late to get it in, of course. And nobody is open today. Yay. Well. Maybe. I'll call AAA and ask.
Jim was understandably livid - all he wants to do is go home, y'understand. He changed his own tire in 99 degrees, on asphalt yesterday. That would make anyone a little...steamed? I'm just glad it 1) wasn't on the freeway or 2) in a worse part of town in the middle of the night. Yeah, tires fail. It could have been MUCH worse. I'll take it.
I'm thinking a Starbucks with good A/C and wireless. Take the laptop and drink iced coffee most of the afternoon. I'll let you know what I find.
Right now, while it's still comfortable, I'm taking a nap.
And my memory is long enough to know in a few weeks...perhaps even a few more than that? Perfect weather. Crystal-clear October blue skies, crisp days - but not freezing. CLEAR as you could like - yes, the postcards were taken sometime - just as the harvest festivals swing into full gear.
This is not the pretty time in California.
I also know how expensive A/C is to install, to run and to maintain. It's also an incredible ecological SUCK on more than four fronts. I grew up in Hemet, with only one cooler in a converted garage. I know hot. I've watched more silent films, checked out from the library, in the dark (because that's the coolest place you can find), during the summer than you can name. Wet t-shirts are not sexay, they're personal evaporation coolers.
You go share A/C someplace it has to be run. Hotel lobbies. Restaurant lounges (ghads, I've spent a small fortune on Pacman at the Denny's in Hemet in the lounge. They still have it there? The sit-down version - not the arcade one). Libraries, sure.
I have to venture out sometime today - the cat litter runneth under and I couldn't lift the 40 lb. bags yesterday. Dopey me forgot she had a blood donation appointment Saturday AM (BTW, BP at donation? 118/70 - NO MEDS. *preen*), and thus had the bandage o'doom on arm and couldn't lift more than her purse all day yesterday. (Didn't stop me from getting the bedroom clutter under control, framing everything I had to get framed, converting the odd pieces of VHS to digital and such yesterday. I was busy!)
Today - I'll have to call AAA and see if they know of anyone open today to replace a tire. Jim blew a tire on the way home from work yesterday - too late to get it in, of course. And nobody is open today. Yay. Well. Maybe. I'll call AAA and ask.
Jim was understandably livid - all he wants to do is go home, y'understand. He changed his own tire in 99 degrees, on asphalt yesterday. That would make anyone a little...steamed? I'm just glad it 1) wasn't on the freeway or 2) in a worse part of town in the middle of the night. Yeah, tires fail. It could have been MUCH worse. I'll take it.
I'm thinking a Starbucks with good A/C and wireless. Take the laptop and drink iced coffee most of the afternoon. I'll let you know what I find.
Right now, while it's still comfortable, I'm taking a nap.
