Can't say it's been weather for sitting around the fire bowl at night <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

The heat index here has been between 100 F and 115F for the past couple of days and looks to be the same through this next week.

For those of you in "dry" states, heat index is the summer equivilent of "wind chill factor".

The old A/C has been getting a work out, to be sure.

I've always disliked humidity...get that from my mother. A few years ago my then fiancee and I took a bus trip out to WA state to help her sister pack up her house to move. She lived in the desert and when we got off the bus I said, "Whew, how hot is it today, about 80?" The first bank clock we saw read "96". But coming from a place where I'm used to humidity making things feel warmer, the dry heat of the desert was quite deceptive to me.

This weather makes me cranky too. I snipped at a lifeguard today who was questioning my child's height to go on the "lazy river" in a tube alone. Well, my youngest is under the height requirement, but very confident in the tube and always has a parent close by. Plus the fact that we ride the lazy river like that ALL THE TIME. "Do you want to talk to the manager?" the lifeguard asked.
"No, I've waited for a tube for 15 minutes in this heat, we ride like this all the time...no I don't want to talk to the manager, I want to ride the lazy river!"

I really wasn't very nice to her. I just find it hard to believe that every lifeguard that has been working for the past two months, who have seen our youngest riding alone and never questioned it were completely oblivious and during this heat wave, this nice young girl all of a sudden wants to pull rank. Especially since we tend to be a bit of a spectacle with all of us getting in our tubes. The kids do alright but my wife is less graceful due to pregnancy and I'm, well...<sing along with me> "fat guy in a little tube..."

Just remember, if you're out in the heat and you STOP sweating, you need to worry. Bone up on your heat exhaustion and heat stroke first aid skills.

And IMHO anti-depressants suck. I'm not saying they aren't useful, or that people shouldn't take them, but I've had such a bad experience with them over the years. Of course misdiagnosis and therefore mis-prescribing could have something to do with that.

picard, I'd get a big old container, like an Aqua Tainer and keep it close at hand...large quantities of bottled quality water at a fraction of the cost!

This is a forum, not a blog...guess I should go to bed since, "Lord I was born a ramblin' man!"