It's not the heat, it's the stupidity
After a long, gorgeous, anomalously un-humid springtime, the lower Midwest's customary summer stickiness arrived with a vengeance on Sunday night. Unfortunately, Sunday was also when our air conditioner decided it was fine with moving air around, but not so much with the conditioning of it. Humidity levels in the house climbed, and while it wasn't quite hot enough to make us actively sweat (thankfully), we did succumb to that awful, slow oozing that tends to happen when it's just too damn muggy. (You're welcome for that...hope you weren't eating.)
I put in a call to the home warranty firm this morning, and to my surprise the dispatcher said she could send a tech out this afternoon between 12 and 5. Since today is actually the best day this work week for me to take a forced half day off, I agreed and hustled home at 5 minutes to twelve.
Now, good internets, a survey. Given a surprise half day off work but stuck in a house with a broken air conditioner, which of the following options sounds best to you:
( A ) Lounge around eating ice cream and watching bad daytime cable
( B ) Position self in front of fan with laptop and catch up on blog reading
( C ) Bake muffins. In the oven. Which is, you know, HOT.
Can you guess which one I chose?
S-M-R-T
Reading: Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It by Elizabeth Royte
Playing: one of those music-only channels on digital cable
When you need a muffin, you need a muffin. It can't be helped.
ReplyDeleteAmen, sister...amen!
ReplyDeletePLUS, it actually IS a smart move to make muffins when the baking heat isn't canceling out the expensive AC!
ReplyDeleteI say ICE CReam! Weee
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ReplyDeleteHey, you know what else you could do on hot days? You could check out cool science shit on the web.
ReplyDeleteLike Quirks and Quarks, the CBC's weekly science radio show (with podcast): http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/
Or Planetary Radio, the Planetary Society's weekly interview + astronomy radio show (with podcast): http://planetary.org/radio/
Or read the Planetary Society weblog, where Emily Lakdawalla digests the river of data coming out of NASA, the ESA and other agencies, and poops a steady stream of brilliant high-res photographs and thoughtful commentary: http://planetary.org/blog/
If you like those, I've got a million more. :-)