I ran my two A/cs all day yesterday set at 76 (for 950 sq ft). Then I turned my bedroom one off at night and it stayed pretty cool. I also keep all the blinds pulled all day to keep out the sun and that helps a lot.

The kitchen is the only room taht gets really hot. It is furthest from the A/Cs, does not have blinds and gets afternoon sun. Add to that if you do any cooking and it gets pretty bad on these really hot days. I have a 2-way exhaust fan to install in the window and a ceiling fan. I hope that is enough. tonight I am gonna try to prepare some food with minimal cooking: gazpacho, cucumber soup, beans (in the crock pot), and some salmon.

Right now, i get jealous of the east coast.

What Consuela said. Plus right now? Hurricane season.

From my perspective this sounds pretty much exactly like:

"Water is not supposed to fall out of the sky!"

or

"The wind is not supposed to go 100 miles per hour!"

or

"What the hell is with the frozen water blotting out the landscape and clogging up the roads!"

No, sorry. All of those things are semi-predictable and avoidable. You cannot run and hide from an earthquake.

We need a second A/C to put in the kitchen, so the apartment can be cooled from both ends. In our old place, we had the A/C in the bedroom, but in this place, the bedroom window overlooks the fire escape, so no dice.

Puppy threw up on office rug. Puppy threw up on kitchen floor. Puppy threw up in back of car on way to vet.

My day is not starting well.

{{{Kristin}}} {{{puppy}}}

poor sick puppy and clean-up mom.

I opted to rip more CDs today. This can get addictive, but also kinda boring.

We had an earthquake a couple weeks ago in the low 4.s. It woke me up (damn planet, grumbling at 6:35 am—pipe down!), but was only a mild shake that didn't overturn anything. I don't think you'd be able to feel a 2.4 unless you were right over the epicenter.

It did make me feel a little less secure about living on the edge of a bluff, though.

Erk. The kitchen thermometer says it's 88.6 in here. I've been sitting in the living room under the ceiling fan where it's been pretty comfortable. Thank goodness some AC is in my near future.

hee. We're happy be holding on to ours until the move. Gahhhhhh. Of course, there's not so much packing that needs to be done in the nice cool bedroom.

Well, to be fair, it was the 5.6 that was felt around SoCal.

I don't know if I would feel a 2.4 unless I was very very quiet and right there. I tend to feel them around 3 and higher, historically.

edit: Yikes, I sound snarky. I was going for 'splainy, not bitchy. I don't know how to make it sound better either.