Hot Hot Hot

The weather here is interesting. The way it works, as best I can figure, is ..... it's pretty cool, like in the low 70's and then the temperature builds for about a week or 10 days. Yesterday it got up to 98 degrees. Then a storm blows through and the cycle starts all over again.

We don't have air conditioning. When it is 98 degrees outside, there is no way to escape the heat. The best plan of attack is to close all the windows, draw the blinds, and stay really still. The windows of our apartment have these really heavy blinds on all of the windows. They are so heavy that it takes some tricky maneuvers to lower and raise them. I got a rope burn the other day as I was trying to lower them. ouch, it still hurts .... and on the window of the "point" there are some strange folding shutters. They work pretty well at blocking the sun too. We have lots of big windows and we live in an open area..... that's really nice.... we don't stare at the other apartment building walls... we look out over a park... but it has a downside - the sun glares into the apartment bringing in lots of heat. The stairwell to the apartment building stays surprisingly cool. Opening the door into the stairwell helps, but you can't really leave the door open for very long.

So... we drink lots of water... and laze around all day... and wait for the next storm.