it works for bears in winter, i'm not sure why i can't hibernate all summer... dear summertime heat: fuck you!
so, i finished moving everything and cleaning last friday. a huge storm ripped through friday night and knocked out power. but, let's tarantino to the monday before.
*the monday before* - i moved all of my big stuff: couch, bed, couple of bookshelves and a dresser and it was a nice day. get back to my buddy's (where i'll be staying for a while) and it is hot as hell in his place. turns out, the a/c decided to say "fuck you, i quit". all week long was miserable weds & thurs were 100 & 101. it was brutal. so bad that thursday night, i slept on a cot in the place i was moving out of.
back to friday. storm comes ripping through & i got caught in it while driving home from having a late lunch w/ a friend. i got back to my apartment and went to park in my usual spot... however, a tree and several branches from another tree were in my spot. my poor little car would've been skooshed if i didn't decide to take a break and have lunch :-(
so, the storm that rips through is over in less than 1/2 an hour. and knocks out power to over 800,000 in the region.
so, my buddy takes off and heads out of town since we're lacking power. it's still hotter than fuck. i messaged my ex (#1) and explained what was going on. she said i could come over and sleep on the couch. woke up saturday morning & ran some errands. went to the library until they closed at 1700 - one of the few places w/ a/c and power. left there & met a buddy for dinner before the footy match (which was delayed b/c the utility co. needed time to get electricity to it again).
while at the footy match, #1 messaged me and said i could sleep on the couch again - but i couldn't take a shower. ¿wtf, maite?
i woke up in the morning, ran some stuff over to storage (lamps and the like) then returned to the library. while there, i see an announcement from the city's dept. of public utilities that a 12" main broke about a block south of my buddy's place and we may have lost water pressure (or water entirely) and we are under a strict boil order until further notice. so... no electric, no gas appliances, no water heater to shower, no a/c... this was the final straw.
i stayed at the library until it closed. ran into another buddy on the way out and we ran acrx the street for some dinner salads (too fucking hot to eat anything else) before i ran back to where i'm staying, threw together a bag and decided to retreat back to where my family lives 3 states away. on the bright side, it's been >10F cooler here all week and today has been the only intolerably hot day.
while risky dealing w/ weather forecasts, i'm going to wait until the sun is nearly set tmrw and begin my return trip since temps drop into the 80s for the coming week and (by the fates and the furies, i pray) the a/c is supposed to be fixed this week. and we have electric again (though i don't know about the water situation...).
i've accomplished virtually nil this entire week - running around all over the place to visit family & peeps. right now all i want is a cool bar and some food and a place to relax.
*sigh* hibernation sounds way better than all of this.
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