Things you may or may not need to know

[hummingwolf]

Because I have found reason to include this link in comments to many many LJ posts recently:
http://www.livejournal.com/settings/?tag=editor

If you do not understand why that link might be important, don't worry about it. If you do understand: you're welcome.

In other news: I was fully prepared to get out of the house very early this morning in order to do some very important things, but my plans were unfortunately delayed as I realized about thirty minutes after waking up that I was already suffering the effects of heat exhaustion.

In case you ever need to know any of this: Yes, hot, humid weather is my least-favorite weather of all. No, I do not have air-conditioning here at home. Yes, I think that Gatorade makes a wonderful summertime gift.

The cold front can't come through here soon enough.

Comments

[blue-by-you.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the hot and humid. It makes it so hard to sleep at night.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. We are supposed to get cooler weather soon. At least, I hope we still are, because I don't know how much more of this I can take.

[pnksaph.livejournal.com]

Where was that link when I was going crazy last week trying to get rid of the 'rich text' option. I finally found it, but not until cursing lj for about 4 days.

I agree with you. Hot, humid weather is awful. Which is why I vacation in the south every summer. :/

::schemes to find a way to get all of my family up here to the northwest::

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't give you that link before! Since it's not a problem I've had, it took me a while to notice that this link I'd seen might be helpful to a lot of people I know.

At least in the south air-conditioning is standard. We're far enough north here that landlords must provide heat, but A/C is optional. (I could use a window unit for my room, if I had the money for it. It's been a few years since I had the money to spare.)

I've never been to the northwest, but it sounds nice in that part of the country.

[windsparrow.livejournal.com]

Fan still working, or is it time for another?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Fan still working! It's blowing air on me right now, for which I am still grateful to you. Unfortunately, the air is quite warm air.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

No air-conditioning in hot, humid weather = Hell.

Drink plenty of water and/or fluids.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm getting plenty of fluids. I don't seem to be keeping up with the amount of liquid I'm losing as well as I'd like--very shaky & miserable most of the day today, even though the weather's cooler.

[coffeegrace.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I remember one summer growing up when our a/c broke. My parents didn't get it fixed for about a year! I would jump in the shower and rinse of in cold water periodically throughout the day. Also going somewhere that has a/c helps. I hope you're able to stay as cool as possible!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I would usually go somewhere with A/C, but I've woken up too sick from the heat to actually go anywhere. They say the first heat wave of the summer hits people the hardest, and I hope that's true because I do not want to feel this miserable during all the other heatwaves!

[meretia]

I really don't understand why people get so excited about hot weather. I mean, if you're too cold you can go put on a sweater or something and you'll be fine, but there's really nothing to do for being too hot except to sit around all sweaty and miserable.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I get the impression that most people who love hot weather love it because it's a good excuse to take off work, go to the beach, and work hard on developing their inevitable skin cancer. I could be wrong, though.