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Mmmm Dry Heat!

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Posted July 6th, 2007 by Christopher - Add comment

Fear the electric bill this month! I’m sitting in the cool, comfortable confines of my house, enjoying a refreshing and reinvigorating 69 degrees of glorious, god-given air conditioning. Outside it’s a crushing 117 degrees of dry heat, so dry and so heated, in fact, that yesterday when I went to turn on my wipers and squirt some water to clear away a bit of dust on the windshield, there was literally a little thin trail of rubber left behind on the glass around where the edge of the wiper blade had passed. No, I am not kidding. I’m not allowing myself to consider the ecological impact of cooling my personal shelter to a differential of 48 degrees from the outside air, because well, I gotta have it cool, baby!

Somewhere Al Gore is crying…

It is a therapeutic sort of heat to be out in, though. You just have to have some place to retreat to once you’ve had enough. If you go outside with a cold drink and chill by the pool it feels like you’re at a spa in Palm Springs or something… Okay, it feels like what I imagine it would feel like in the summer at a spa in Palm Springs, as I’ve never actually been, but – yeah I guess my imagination helps ;)

The great thing about the hot part of the summer here in Las Vegas is that it is short. Usually it doesn’t get this hot at all, and when it gets “normal” hot it’s a little later in July. The hot part of the summer usually lasts about six weeks. It’s looking like it might be more like eight weeks this summer, but I’m trying to lose a few pounds, anyhow. Maybe the heat will just melt it right off the bone!

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