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Welcome, Summer

>From the National Weather Service:
“…HEAT WAVE IN PROGRESS FOR MUCH OF INTERIOR SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND… A
HEAT WAVE IS DEFINED BY 3 OR MORE CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF 90 DEGREE
TEMPERATURES.

TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO RISE INTO THE 91 TO 97 DEGREE RANGE AT A NUMBER
OF VALLEY AND INTERIOR COASTAL PLAIN LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY
AFTERNOON. HUMIDITY WILL BE ON THE INCREASE AS WELL…WITH VERY
UNCOMFORTABLE CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND OPPRESSIVE CONDITIONS THURSDAY.
THE HEAT INDEX IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH 105 DEGREES THURSDAY AFTERNOON.”

Cause we don’t want to ease into summer, nosiree.

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Well, I’m disappointed

Lunch was definitely a “looks better than it was” experience today. I had
such high hopes, too. I got the deli special, tomato and mozzarella on
focaccia with a splash of balsamic vinegar. Oh, and one of them thar basil
leaves.

It’s too early in the season (given our weather lately) to do a tomato
sandwich. And while the mozzarella looked great, I just expected a little
more flavor – even if that flavor was “salt” or something. It seems a shame
to intake fat from cheese and not even really get any pleasure out of it. I
would have saved the fat for something else. So in summary, my sandwich
looked fantastic, tasted like, well, just the focaccia bread. (I have no
idea if I’m spelling that correctly or not. The spell-check in my mail
software has no idea how it is spelled.

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Great Game

You couldn’t have asked for a better night – a warm breeze, Nomah going 5 for 5 (with 3 runs…dude!), a 10 to 1 win, and kick-butt seats courtesy of my boss (who is the greatest boss ever, just in case she’s reading this). These were her personal seats, and there were 4 of us at the game. I didn’t know exactly where we’d be or I would have posted it here because it should have been easy to find us if you were watching the game, especially when one foul ball hit the roof right over our heads. We were in roof box 20, which is the one on the 3rd base line, and we were in the first row, first four seats in from the end. So basically if you looked at the corner of the roof box seats (the ones that aren’t enclosed) that was us. *waving*

I highly recommend these seats – you get a fairly private bathroom, and two concession stands that had hardly any lines. I mean, what’s better than that? Especially the bathroom thing…that was sweet. Especially after two beers and a bottle of water.

So now I’m exhausted cause I didn’t get home until after 11:30pm and I’m such a baby that I don’t handle staying up that late very well. I hope I look alert at my 9:00am meeting…

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Go Red Sox!

You’re going to have to sit and stew in your own jealousy because I’m going
to the Sox game tonight. It’s FINALLY a perfect night to go to a game! I
brought a change of clothes to work, and I’m counting down the minutes.
Actually, I’m going with my department, so I’m not counting them down
too loudly.

I brought sneakers to wear because today I’m wearing some sandal-like
open-toed open-back shoes, and my deep fear all day has been that while I’m
walking I’ll kick one off. I’d hate to do that at the park and end up losing
my shoe or worse, having my feet actually touch any part of the floor. That
would be very bad.

You probably won’t see me on camera, given where the seats are, but you
should watch the game anyway, don’t you think?

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Fedders air conditioners

I’m in the market for an air conditioner. I’ll tell you what I want, and you tell me if it exists. Or if it does exist, if it’s any good.

Minimally, I need about 12,000 BTUs to cool the first floor of my house, which is open-concept. This sucks, because my biggest hope is that I could find one that doesn’t weigh much more than 75 pounds or so. I cannot handle needing three people to bring my AC up from the basement – we did it tonight and I actually hurt my arm trying to work it out so two of us could carry the damned thing backwards up the stairs. Okay, so there’s the weight thing. The price isn’t as much of a concern right now (seeing as I’m only putting forth a wish list) but I’d like to keep it under $500. I’d also like it to have a timer setting so I can tell it to turn on an hour before I get home. My bedroom AC does that, but “the beast” doesn’t, and this is the room that needs it. Oh, and if at all possible, I don’t want the back covered with razor-sharp thingies that slice up your hands if you aren’t wearing gloves. Oh yea, a couple of years ago I found THAT out the hard way.

Walmart has this one for a decent price…anyone have an opinon on it?

Fedders air conditioners.

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