Back from workin’ on customers stuff, paid, (not in full, but I can let $10 slide a bit.) and bank run done. Comfortable cash day.
Not so much for the sweat and heat. Was soaked to my knees by 10:30. SOAKED! DRIPPIN’!
and when I took the gloves off (I wear nitrile gloves, for several reasons) it looked like a badly leaking faucet from my hands.
Glad as heck we aren’t hangin’ wire today!
and today is supposed to be cooler than yesterday (and that was bad, but I survived.)
Went to look at a window AC unit today. Price-wise, very doable. BUT, My frugal self kicked in and said “you haven’t had AC in 11 years, why start now. its just a short spelll. Suck it up buttercup!” Yes, its tempting, but I have to work out in this shit and if I run AC, I have to re-acclimatize every single day. Been there and was getting sick. When we did the festivals I tried to keep away from the AC completely because it made working out in that shit so much worse. Especially the ones downtown, surrounded by asphalt and concrete. The ones in the feilds were easier on the system. (mine and the sounds.)
I learned from my time in Texas during 2012 just how much I can tolerate. The biggest downside to here in Kentuck is the humidity. Texas had ‘some’, but not the scuba levels we get here. But there are ways around that too. (its just a matter of pulling the air through a medium much cooler than the humidity index. Drawing air though an old radiator with cool water flowing through it will do much the same as the heat exchanger of an AC unit. just gotta take the time to make such a thing,,,)
So instead of spending what I made today on a window AC unit, I bought a bigger fan for the window. Thinking I can cut a vent to the crawl space for cooler air into the house from below and use the fan to create the underpressure to pull it in.
Or not. Could just wait till the end of day as the sun’s casting off, and push the cooler air from the east side (wooded side) to drop the temps. As it is, the inside is always 10-15 degrees cooler than out, despite no AC. I can make that closer to 20 with what I mentioned already.
July is always hot, August usually similar or worse. but then we head to September and things can get downright cool in the even-tide.
Sitting here in a pair of shorts with a fan blowing. I’m comfortable. Get out in this shit, not so much. SO,,,, I play Meh-Hee-Can and siesta. I’ll get back at the work-a-day stuff at the sun gets lower in the sky. (wanna move some of the heavier items out of Da’s place.)
More laters,,,,
LLLLL!
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Dio's Workshop 
Siesta is a nice lifestyle. Italy is the same way but with wine for breakfast. I start at daylight, take a couple breaks to cool off and lay on the couch under the ac until evening then work another hour or so. Except for yesterday and today. Finally got the scratch to get my permanent water line in. So I had to do it in the heat just to get off that boiling hot hose water.
Don’t overdo it in the heat! Heat exhaustion or stroke ain’t worth it.
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Heat is a fu**in killer, if’n ya don’t pay attention – from someone who knows a bit about it. Had heat exhaustion once, and being a Native Flori-did-ian, didn’t think it wuz happnin to me. It wuz! Made it without it goin into much worse, due to others around me recognizing it fer what it wuz, and being proactive on my sun cooked azz. Learnt my lesson, I did! It’s sumthin that everbody that’s outside in the heat should be VERY aware of! No laughin matter at all.
L’s!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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I’ve personally seen heat stroke and heat exhaustion, though never ‘been down’ myself. I’m the stickler for not drinking cold water and the like when I get hot, though I will put gallons through me: just never less than ambient. Fact, I tend to drink hot coffee when the temps go up. Seems to keep me cooler. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but I learned that from some Arabs in Kuwait/Saud.
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I had just come off’n a 2 year stint in upstate NfugginY for my 1st journeyman job in ’85, and wuz seriously un-acclimated. Failure to take that into account iz whut got my azz in trouble. Didn’t happen again, that’s fer sure! Been an advocate fer folk watchin themselves in the heat ever since. Never fergot that lesson, either.
L’s!
Y’all take care,
Mike in FLA.
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