No, I’m not talking about a dirty movie. I was describing my living room, my kitchen… my bedroom and …. Myself. Today was the Hottest Day EVER. No exaggeration. I’m not even kidding. The temperature reading in my car was a stifling 103˚F in the shade, and 110˚F everywhere else. This is day 3 of the Seattle heat wave with one more to go before we cool down to a chilling 87 on Friday. The good news is, I’ve drank so much water that I actually lost weight from last week. Wait gain now: 43 lbs. The other good news is that in my office at work, I have the only working air conditioner right above my head. When I arrived this morning the HVAC system was working so hard that it sounded like the boiler room of the Titanic. I feared it would soon fail, and lo and behold, it did. The office I’m referring to is one of those with a million windows so when the AC isn’t working, it turns into a solar oven. Really. It does. It’s even sort of arc-shaped, giving it qualities much like that of a parabolic heater, which is sort of ironic for a power plant construction company. We could build a solar plant in the parking lot with all the mirrored windows on this place…
But I digress…
What is really ironic though, is God’s sense of humor. For 15 years (since I moved here from California) I’ve been praying for a warmer climate, praying to move to a warmer climate or just get rid of the rain. Of course, what does he do? He gives it to me, with a mighty laugh,”muah ha-ha ha”.
Figures.