Beating the Heat

I open the windows and turn on the fans at night, and then I shut the windows/curtains just before dawn and turn on the air conditioner.

It keeps my house cool.

(I will not make a nudity joke. No, I won't.)

A nice afternoon bath does wonders, too.

Funny you should mention this. It's actually cool here today..first time in a week!!

Beating heat = LOTS of ice cream! What better excuse to eat gobs of it??

Freckles said:

Beating heat = LOTS of ice cream! What better excuse to eat gobs of it??

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1. Your man left you.
2. Your woman left you.
3. I left you.
4. I came back.
5. Your man left with your woman and me.
6. Your man left with your woman, but left me behind.
7. You left, but forgot your man
8. You left, but forgot your woman, who is now with me.
9. Rejection
10. Depression
11. NASCAR
12. Eggplant

Freckles took my idea.

Ice cream and watermelon. Lots of cold drinks.

And when you're taking your shower, turn the water cooler for a couple of minutes before you get out.

TheIT said:

Triple digit temperatures here yesterday and I don't have air conditioning, so I spent the afternoon in the library to beat the heat. I wasn't the only one. Every seat was taken, and some people were sitting on the floor. I've never seen a library so jam packed with people.

Anyone have any other strategies to beat the heat?

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Buy an air conditioner.

billythrilly7th said:

Buy an air conditioner.

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How profound. Wouldn't it be smarter to stop global warming so we wouldn't need to pollute the air with freon by products?

You know, it's ninety degrees here today, and yet it doesn't actually feel all that hot. I just turned my air conditioner OFF and opened the windows because it was getting cold enough in the house, I was having trouble typing properly.

SpookyWriter said:

How profound. Wouldn't it be smarter to stop global warming so we wouldn't need to pollute the air with freon by products?

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Nah.

Shades and curtains on west and south windows. When you make curtains, use several layers of fabric, including lace (inside) to create insulating air pockets. Some of my curtains are almost quilts. Not all our windows have the full treatment, though. Yesterday and today, I'm using cardboard leaning against the glass to keep out heat in some places.

I wish we could leave windows open at night, but burglars come in that way.

Well I'm dripping in sweat, and it's going to be blazing hot here all week - a week I have off from work. I was planning, and I have a DEEP need to write all week long, so I'm either going to take the laptop out in the shade on my deck, or I'm packing myself up and heading to the library myself. I seriously want to write all day long, all week long, and I'm going to need the A/C that my house lacks!

When I run for President on the Thrilly/Clary ticket in 2024, I will not promise universal healthcare, but I will promise an air condition to every man, woman, child and dwelling in the country.



"Vote Thrilly if you want to be cool!"

Evaporating water from a wet towel wrapped around you neck will cool you down quite a lot.

I sit in a bathtub full of cold water with a book. Also, having sex helps. It makes the world seem cooler when you're done.

My library has been rather jammed as well. It usually doesn't get any hotter than 95 here, but we're surrounded by a river so the air is always clogged and humid.

billythrilly7th said:

When I run for President on the Thrilly/Clary ticket in 2024, I will not promise universal healthcare, but I will promise an air condition to every man, woman, child and dwelling in the country.

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I don't think that platform will help you win Alaska or North Dakota.

chaostitan said:

I don't think that platform will help you win Alaska or North Dakota.

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I've already won those states.

But this platform will help bring back some of the blue states to the red column like New York and California.(NYC, I will install air conditioning on the Subway platforms by executive order as my second act of President on July 24, 2025. Vote Thrilly!)

as much as I love a common sense approach to life and politics, I think I'd cry if the blue states became red. That's just so wrong.

If writerly was hot, I'd stand there for hours fanning her.

billythrilly7th said:

If writerly was hot, I'd stand there for hours fanning her.

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Billy: "If Stew21 was hot, I'd tell her to buy a fvcking fan, cuz let's face it, she ain't hot enough for me!"

Two beer method once worked for me. A cold one to drink, another to frost my chesnuts.

Repeat as needed.

Air conditioning. That's it. It got up to 108 here last week. Nothing else works. On the bright side, I met my word quota every day because it was to freakin' hot to go outside. We finally cooled back down into the 90s this weekend. It was only 98 yesterday. Word quota here I come.

When I run for President I will promise an air condition to every man, woman, child and dwelling in the country.

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And thats why you won't see Thrilly elected to public office anytime soon

We're having a heat wave too. Our roads were melting and stuff.

My daughter just got a family size paddling pool, and we're one of the few areas without a hosepipe ban in the south. So when it gets too hot, I splash around in that, and afterwards use the water for the garden.

Other than that I have a fan a few inches away.

I beat the heat.

$650 electric bill for June/July but I was cool.

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TheIT said:

Anyone have any other strategies to beat the heat?

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Move somewhere cooler?