bleurgh

It feels like Texas. I can manage humidity, as long as it's below 60dF outside. I don't do heat, however. And I really, really don't do heat and humidity at the same bleeding time. In the twenty years I've lived here, so far as I know, the dewpoint has never gone as high as it is right now (into the sixties). And we're supposed to get into the nineties temperaturewise for the next four days.

I got up and took my walk at nine in the bleeding morning today, and I still ended it sweaty.

This is just Wrong, in the most Ivanian sense of the term.

Reason #21 that you know you're a Northwesterner: "you have no concept of humidity without precipitation." I would add, nor do you have a concept of humidity in the summertime.

Bleurgh.

spiffy, just spiffy

My new (as of last winter) next-door neighbor has just installed a very noisy room AC unit in his bedroom window. Which is three feet from my bedroom window. I just called his landlord and left a message, then went and fetched the president of the condo association to give me some backup when I went to him and complained about it. He said he'd do something about it. We'll see what he decides to do, esp. in light of the fact that his landlord evidently didn't tell him that the condo by-laws prohibit them upstairs for this very reason.

A quiet in-the-room room AC unit is one thing. This one sounds like a 747 in my bedroom.

ETA the next morning: Well, the unit's out of the window. I guess we'll see what happens next.

You know, this whole problem could be solved amicably if the weather here would just go back to our usual reasonable and normal summer 70s (dF) [sigh]. Two more days according to the weather people. I hope this is our only heat wave for the summer (hey, we only hit 90dF every second or third year, statistically...).