Summer in Texas

[TXlib]

Just moved to Austin. Now this is a city that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. what a pleasure to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. But getting used to the heat and humidity is taking longer that I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body). Missed
3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000 leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and shits. I learned my lesson though. No more pets in this heat.

July 25th:
The wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the fritz and the AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. $1,500 in damn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to 85, but this freaking humidity makes the house feel like it's about 95. Stupid repairman. I hate this stupid city.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise ass cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to strangle him. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my ass was on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug. 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do shit for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn desert? Water rationing will be next, so my $1700 worth of cactus just might dry up and blow into the damn pool. Even the cactus can't live in this damn heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damn windshield out of the car. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" They had to spend the $1500 house payment to bail me out of jail. Freaking Texas. What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live here?

[GOPisEvil]

1. Oh, it's not THAT bad!

Plus, I was here in Austin for the hottest day in recorded history and it was only 113. :P

However, then entry for Aug. 10th is right on. The weather men should work one day a week, and tape their segments for every day. Hot, highs near 100, sunny, no rain...ad infinitum...

[Skittles]

3. I think it was the same temperature that day here

I remember I left my work badge in my car and it melted very quickly.

[TXlib]

6. KCDEm and I will be in Austin

August 23rd.

Our homebrew club is having a pubcrawl in Austin.

[GOPisEvil]

7. Oh yeah? That's the day I'm trying to get Will Pitt down here!

Either way, you guys will have to stop by and say howdy! :hi: Pub crawl? Do you have the itinerary?

[Skittles]

12. HEY

ARE YOU STILL WORKING ON THAT?

[GOPisEvil]

13. Yeah!!!!

Lined up another small sponsor...working on a venue and a large sponsor...why don't people that RUN BUSINESSES ANSWER THEIR F***ING E-MAIL?!?!?!

[XNASA]

4. Last night, I was reading in bed, with the window open and thinking......

"Gee, I never did this when I lived in Texas." Of course, I never thought I'd live anywhere where it got too hot to go swimming either.

In Houston we had a lot more humidity, and the air smelled like paint thinner.

Austin's not nearly so bad.

[Ishoutandscream]

2. My whole life in Texas, have seen it all.

You hit it on the head. July and August and portions of September are terrible! But I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[newyawker99]

14. Congrats Ishoutandscream!! 400 posts

:toast:

[Ilsa]

5. Yeah, but

you don't have to pay state income tax! Isn't that great? Doesn't that make up for every other frickin thing that's gone wrong?

(sarcasm off)

BTW, I've never met an AC repairman in TX that didn't have the parts I needed in his truck. I think you need another referral.

As for me, I'm holed up inside along the coast with the ac on until October...

And btw, I think a heat wave in June 1998 might have caused me to have a miscarriage. I know, June thru Sept really suck.

[Kellanved]

8. I know, I posted this before

But a little Schadenfreude on my part is unavoidable, as we had a nice 25°C day here.
http://flem.keenspace.com/d/19991029.html

[pansypoo53219]

9. suckers

we just got our spring finally - low to high 70's. nights in the 60's. ah, wisconsin.
In winter, we can pile on clothes. but you can't do better than naked in summer can you.

[amazona]

10. well that makes me feel a little better, only a little though

I was supposed to be on vacation in Texas right now but those plans were cancelled by a big tree dropping on my house. Sigh.

[Dover]

11. Most species KNOW when to migrate ! Alot of Canadians in Texas in the

winter, eh ! Why not the reverse in summer........eh?