It's not that I'm avoiding you...

[fufaraw]

Wanted to apologize for being so thin on the ground here, lately. There's real life stuff needing to be done, and all the rest of my focus right now is on my BB. Which, is proceeding. If it's not magically completing itself, well, that is a little too much to hope for, I suppose.

But I'm also being scarce on purpose because--People! So Much Tempting Meanttobe fic! So! Much! So tempting! So I'm kinda marking the dates so I can come back later and eat it ALL up with a SPOON! And BB starts posting *tomorrow*!! So much fic, and me with a moratorium on reading until I post. So sad.

It's really warm, today, and we've deployed the fans, which is really the only way we survive summer with no AC. I'm lacking one oscillator, which is on a high closet shelf and much be fetched by the Other Human, and also the cardboard baffle we made for the front window to keep sun heat on the window glass from heating up the room. It's white on the side that faces out, for reflection, and corrugated for a bit of insulation. We *tell ourselves* it's helping, and it may be, a degree or two. The only thing left to do, and I'm saving it for end of July and August--is mount the shade in the skylight. It turns the whole center of the house into underwaterish gloom, though, and I don't like it. But if it's a choice between baking in our juices and living in gloom, well....

Hope you're all well.

Comments

[roxymissrose.livejournal.com]

you're so strong! I gave up and am reading meanttobe and feeling guilty, lol! Story of my life!

But if it's a choice between baking in our juices and living in gloom, well....

My word, *there's* a vivid image!

[epiphyta]

All of the blinds are down, here, and it's dark. I'm making up cucumber agua and green tea elixir, and am probably going to the fitness center rather than the park for my walk today: it was nastily humid at 6 this morning, and it's only gotten worse.

[aerynsun5.livejournal.com]

I'm still mostly catching up from Feb/Mar/April, except for intermittent posts chosen pretty much at random. Reading is too tempting, but the kittiez sez "clean the house, you lazy slattern, or we're calling CPS!"

Hey, how about one (or more) of those silvery reflecting things you put in the windshields of cars? Not so attractive to your neighbors, maybe, but who cares? I have my big deodar cedar that you saw, which helps a smidge, though I did break out the fans last night.

[sylsdarkplace]

I feel for you. I was reading on the porch and had to come in before noon because it's so humid.

I think the cardboard on the window does help. I used to do that on the west-facing windows when I lived in South Florida. I was a starving art studen and didn't have money to run A/C. Horrible.