Expecting excavation crew here today to dig culverts and do whatever they do to make my swamp of a front yard into a level usable area including more parking. Also expecting the dog to go bat shit crazy. Dudes are slowly building my back porch. Summer of projects. Hope to get a bunch done before DH gets up here. Everything takes longer than it should.

Attempts to purchase a floating home continue to be challenging. We've decided to rent some cool beach area condo for a year and deal with it again next summer when hopefully the market will be more reasonable. DH is looking at a place today I really liked. 5th floor in one of the busiest beach districts with like everything in walking/biking distance. Includes 2 garage spaces which would be essential. Digits crossed.

Fingers crossed for you, Laura! And definitely take a nap if you need one. Your body clearly needs rest!!

That sounds pretty great, Laura, hope it works out

I am having a hard time convincing myself to work today. I've already had my one scheduled meeting, does anything else really need to get done?

My have-a-million-open-tabs lifestyle means my weather app continues to tell me the weather in places I really have no business checking on, but that allows me to occasionally notice that the temperature is the same in Reykjavík and Martinez, CA

Also the same temp this week: NYC, London, and the surface of the sun

I knew about London, did not know NYC! Yikes. I saw somewhere someone saying "40C is not that hot" and they are stupendously wrong, that is way too hot

It's a relatively chill high of 94 here, for which I am grateful. And Reykjavik is now 10 degrees cooler than Martinez, that was just an odd coincidence

I saw somewhere someone saying "40C is not that hot" and they are stupendously wrong, that is way too hot

There are conspiracy theorists on Twitter claiming that the temperature color maps of the UK have been CHANGED to make them LOOK SCARIER and every meteorologist has responded "Well, we did change them slightly to help colorblind viewers but mostly we've just never had to use these colors before because it's incredibly fucking hot"

The base temps in NY aren't quite as bad as in the UK but our "feels like" temps are over 100 and will get worse all week. I'm really hoping we don't lose power.

And definitely take a nap if you need one. Your body clearly needs rest!!

I may need to! Dog woke me up at 5 AM making a fuss. Then a couple minutes later two booms (sounded like a rifle). I don't know if maybe my neighbor up the hill had a bear or something, but it seems unlikely he was randomly shooting 2 shots at that hour for no good reason. Ah, life in the Adirondacks.

It's 82 here today! Which is pretty remarkable since almost no one has AC. I closed the windows this morning and it is very shaded here so comfortable enough.

Not quite as comfy for the guys doing the excavation work. Watching the work once again makes me regret never being a heavy equipment operator. Looks like so much fun.

My parents managed to be in London for this heat wave.

How, uh, lucky? Dang. Hope they can stay cool.

Yikes. I hope they have cool accommodations.

My neighbor stopped to chat with the workers so I asked him if he was the one who woke my dog at 5AM. Yep, had a coyote who was causing an issue, but apparently won't be in the future.