My apartment has central air, and it's on the bottom floor, surrounded on three sides by trees and a building. I do not envy my upstairs neighbor her summer power bill.

During the brief time I lived in an apartment building I was able to make it through winter with my heat completely turned off. The other units warmed my place enough for someone like me who likes the cold.

I would spontaneously combust without a/c of some sort.

I have a shrine to Willis Carrier.

I was never any good in the heat, to the point of fainting a number of times in my youth, before I was old enough to insist that I was not going to stand in the heat. Now I'm on medication that causes hot flashes. One virtue in living in the South is that it's the land of central air.

The Folklife Festival has started; one of the featured cultures/countries is Wales. I can't help wondering if there's going to be any Tom Jones involvement ... he IS Welsh, isn't he?

yes he is. So is Shirley Basey.

Yeah, the passing of Magic Finger Man was noted in the SPN thread.

Our corporate cafeteria had an outdoor BBQ today. I got ribs and OMG am I stuffed. Sooooo, good. I wish I had sat outside to eat, it was so beautiful outside.

Oooh, ribs--that sounds good!

I just settled for grilled cheese and fries.

I didn't really watch the first one for character development.

P-C, I stumbled across a review that I think does a pretty good job with the strengths and weaknesses of the movie. For me the humor fell painfully flat, but that's subjective. I also had trouble following the robot on robot violence, but that might just be, you know, oldness. Bear in mind, I also saw the movie by accident and not intention.

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I just had New York Strip steak, a baked potato with sour cream and roast asparagus.

I feel like a python who's just swallowed a pig. I need a warm rock to sleep on.

I've heard a number of complaints now about following the action.