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That’s what the house is like. Full of hot air.
Last week the air conditioning decides to quit working when it’s 90+ outside. Typical.
Anyway, along comes the engineer on Friday, and says that we need some Freon in the unit outside. He fills it up, and away he goes. House starts to cool down a a [...]

A Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping naked woman has sold in New York for $33.6m, and sets a new record.
I knew I was doing something wrong. Now, all I have to do is work out how to set up lights when She Who Must Be Obeyed has gone to sleep, so I can [...]

Even in the last few days here, it’s gotten noticeably warmer. The current 10-day forecast shows no day’s maximum temperature under 80 degrees, and the lowest nightime minimum at 58F.
Only a couple of weeks ago, we woke up to a few early morning temperatures only just hovering above freezing point.
I think that it won’t [...]

Not that I am complaining, but it’s like summer here again the last few days. I’ve come very close to switching the air conditioning back on again, after it’s been off for the last few days.

It’s only 68F outside, but it creeps up to 80+ in here, even with the doors and windows open.
We recently [...]

These are always more difficult to write when you’re not having the best of days, and today wasn’t really one of them for a number of reasons, but there’s always things to look forward to or up to, and dinner time was nice this evening, when Kathy bought home some fresh burritos from the Mexican [...]