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...90° in the "hood" today here in Portland City Centre. 86° out at the airport on the Columbia where nobody lives. Currently 77° and light high clouds
Repeat tomorrow then a major change starting Monday though most of the week with cool wet conditions.
...endured those conditions when I lived in New Orleans. Imagine 102° with 95+% humidity (we had a couple days like that). It was like walking out into a steam bath.
As to favourite gins, picked up a bottle of Ransom's Old Tom Gin (my one splurge)the other day at the state boozateria across the street(yesh the state still manages liquor sales here so you won't find Jack Daniels down at the corner Safeway), This is a pre-prohibition style gin that has more botanicals in thus it giving it a very light amber colour. Perfect for my favourite drink, a Gin Buck made with Gin, Ginger Beer and Lemon and served in a tall Collins glass. Perfect on a summery evening like we have tonight
As a matter of fact just about to mix one up
I visited Savannah Georgia in June once. Coming from the UK it was a shock. I had never before seen air conditioned buildings running with condensation on the outside. Nor had I ever thought it was possible to squeeze so much water into the air without being in a storm. Walking the 10 yards from the A/C hotel lobby to the car was enough to get water running down my back inside my clothes. A very different version of hell than I had envisioned, but very effective.
Washington, DC surprisingly, gets to 100F and super muggy(stickily humid) sometimes in the depths of the summer. And I've seen 4 feet of snow (higher than my big BMW motorcycle) in Washington too.
As for unexpected rain, I've stood in a light rain in the middle of a building in Florida. the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center. Cavernous enclosed area with open girders across the ceiling where the large open doors permit the Florida sea air to enter and condense on the immense surface area presented by the girders then to drip onto the floor 400 feet below and form puddles. Cool!
It's rare but I worked there 5 years and witnessed it twice. The building operations people become experts in managing the micro-climate by using the multi-segment independent panels of the massive doors to regulate the flow of air through the building to avoid overpressuring, stagnation and condensation.
I had the joy of attending a Honeywell Larges Systems class in Phoenix, Arizona in August one year. I can still remember the heat. The weekly low temperature was 97 F at 3:30 AM Thursday and the relative humidity never dropped below 90%. Nobody used the hotel pool - it was too warm. OTOH, happy hour was 5 PM to 7 PM and the drinks were free with no limits.
A long time ago (1985, I think), I went to LoneStarCon in Austin, Texas (since WorldCon was being held outside the US, it was the big con for the U.S. that year). The late Jack Vance was the GOH. I came from Louisiana, where it was in the high '90s, But a couple of days while I was in Austin, the temperature hit a high of 107-108 degrees. I grew up in Fla, and moved to La to work, and I thought I was used to high temps. This literally made my skin burn when I was outside, like I was in an oven. There was ice cream and drink stand a short walk from the convention center, so I went there and bought a jumbo milk shake and extra large soft drink. Drank them both walking and was already thirsty again...
Friday, my Bernia sewing machine came out of repair. Final cost about 1/3rd the original price of the machine. Saturday, Joann's Fabrics in Denver opened finally for four hours. I got there at 3pm to find a line to get in. By 4:45, I was third in line, when the store clerk acting as door guard realized that the carts they were using to control the allowed 15 customers, were in the parking lot and sent other workers out to collect them. Then in addition to other instructions, she asked we leave or bring back the carts to her cleaning station. I went in, was given a freebie bag to make my own masks, a coupon off fabric. By the time I was out of there, I had save $34.00 on my purchase. But it was 5:30pm. There was still a line, and they close at 6pm.
And a car with a very old couple pulled into the handicap parking, a lady got out, with cane, slowly moved up to the door. We told her it had taken us an hour and a half just to reach that point. She was shocked. I suggested ordering online, and do a store, curbside pick-up. The door guard came out, said she might consider arriving on Sunday at 1:30pm and get at the front of the line. There appears to be no adjustments for folks with severe mobility issues. I hope cities think about this.
The new normal.
...On time on a trip to DC back in January of 1973 it was something like 65° the ay I landed there (was snowy, windy & cold in Milwaukee) A couple days later it was in the low 20s with a brisk wind. I remember some guy there was having a big party that week, with a parade, fancy dinners, formal balls, and gave a speech on the Capitol Steps in front of a big crowd. I remember seeing lots of men who looked a bit like like Agent Smith from The Matrix wearing black suits and sunglasses with little ear phones.
I remember the inaugural events of Ronald Reagan's 2nd term in 1985. Unbelievably cold and blizzardy. At the time I was living at the old Envoy Hotel(now condos & apts.) on 16th St, NW. (I could literally look south, down the street and see the White House.) Several of the inauguration events were cancelled because of the cold.
I also remember the cold blizzardy day in 1982 when Florida flight 90 crashed into the Potomac River, hitting cars on the 14th St. bridge in front of the Jefferson Memorial. I was visiting on business from Florida and I was driving a rented car with manual transmission in the worst snow situation I've ever been in. It took me probably an hour or more to go two miles from the work building to my room at a hotel. I was a lucky one who didn't slide off the Interstate or crash into another car. Perhaps because of growing up near Buffalo and used to driving in snow. I finally got to the hotel and watched the newscasts of them trying to use helicopters in the blizzard to fish people out of the river.
...well took a good long walk today along the East Bank promenade to enjoy the last day of our 3 day summer sampler. Sill a bit breezy (though not as bad as Friday was) so had to hang onto the hat crossing the lower deck of the Steel Bridge. Planned to do the whole circuit and return via the West bank prom but was pretty tired when I reached the Tilikum Crossing (a transit, bike and pedestrian bridge [no cars] to the south of downtown) and took the street tram though town back home. The distance was about 2.6 miles from where I I live. Next time will do the whole 5 mile loop, but that may not be foe another week or two as it's going to be cool and wet for a while, which means only going out if necessary.
I also hope people in my area don't think I disapprove of the nightly salute to our people on the front lines when I shut my windows. It's not them, but every night it occurs, there is a hyper little "ankle biter", which has an extremely loud and painful shrill bark, that decides to go into "overdrive" pretty much drowning everything else out.
The interior of a continent can have some amazing temperature extremes. In my own state, for example, the temperature in Spearfish, SD, changed from -4 degrees F to 45 degrees F in a space of 2 minutes (-20 degrees C to 7.2 degrees C) thanks to a Chinook wind. The highs and lows I have recorded myself are 102 degrees F and -23 degrees F (-41 degrees windchill).
lemme outttt
Stop the world, I want to get off.
...can I get a refund? The ride.made me very nauseous.
...well all good things come to an end. The lovey summery conditions have departed though wasn't bad earlier today (low 70s) until a few minutes ago when water form the sky began (at least it isn't frozen), and the temperature took a tumble as well down into the mid 50s. Going to be a struggle make it to 60 the next several days with more wet as well as wind on the way so no "leg stretching" until Friday when we get a brief break.
Slept very well last night and felt great this morning. Yeah exercise is a good thing even if it isn't strenuous.
Here the weather is cool. Had a gale on Sunday and yesterday which disrupted the railways by dropping trees on it. Not that many people are on the trains, seems they are down to half the trains scheduled for a normal Sunday service in this area. It is odd though. The railway runs about a mile to the north of us and there is a footpath crossing the line that the trains have to hoot at as they approach. Normally there is so much background traffic noise we rarely hear the trains at all. On Saturday it was still and warm so we were out in the garden working and Tracy & I both jumped when we heard the horn, it was so clear and loud it sounded as if it was only a few yards away. The only noise it had to drown out was the cacophony of birdsong. Almost (but not quite) makes me want to scream at the birds to shut up so I can enjoy some peace & quiet... [Grumble, grumble, mutter].
I think the birds have learnt to shout over the traffic noise. And now, even though they don't have to, they are still shouting. Our place has the old main road literally 5ft from the front of the house (and I do mean the kerb is physically 5ft from the front wall), and the back garden goes up the hill to the edge of the new-ish cutting where the replacement dual carriageway runs. The tree lined cutting blocks a lot of the noise at house level, but at the top of the garden in normal times we have to shout at each other to communicate when standing 6ft apart. When there is an accident on the dual carriageway, all the traffic is diverted down the old road, 5ft from our house. That gets noisy and having 38 tonne trucks thunder past at 35 mph (in the 30mph zone, no-one ever obeys the limit) every 5 seconds makes me so glad the dual carriageway is there. The whole house shakes as a big truck passes.
Just thinking of speeds. I am sure since the lockdown the amount by which people are breaking the speed limit has increased. When we came home from our food shop last Thursday, I was travelling through the 30 zone at 28mph and got overtaken by somebody doing more than twice our speed, and then as we were waiting for the garage door opener to finish opening somebody didn't bother to slow down and overtook us between our car & the garage we were going to turn right into. We were indicating & everything. Our garage, being of 1910-1920 vintage, is right on the pedestrian pavement & not set back at all, so had we actually turned into the garage there would have been the most awful pile-up because there is nowhere to go without hitting a building.
Oh, and I heard a colleague will be unable to work today, his car was rear ended at traffic lights by someone who was too 'special' to stop at a red light. Personally, I think their 'special' was confined to 'needs'.
For a while, a decade or three ago, while assuaging my middle-age crisis, with gym memberships, big motorcycles, wild orgys, and untethered spending, my philosophy and signature line was "Middle-age realization: Life is like a ride on a rollercoaster. And once you're over the top, if you're not screaming on the way down you've wasted your ticket."
Many of my friends keep complaining they're bored. Weird, I'm not bored at all! In fact days seem to be moving super fast for me. I wake up, next thing I know it's 1pm, then 7pm, then Daz midnight lol (11pm). I feel like time is on fast forward and I don't even have time to do what I planned!
I dream a lot about being social and having fun though, until mid-dream, I panic and realize I'm not social distancing and could catch the virus. Last night I dreamt I was about to kiss a really amazing guy, then realized I could catch the virus and quickly backed away. The ONE place where it's totally safe to fraternize is in dreams, and I can't even do that!
Anyone else having Coronavirus inspired dreams?
...yeah in the neighbourhood I'm in both speed limits and stop signs seem to be "optional" as of late ,and this is what normally is a fairly congested area of the city. Seems a lot of people with high powered sport sedans, sports cars, and even exotics like Farraris and Lambos (there are quite a few fairly affluent people here given the half to 1$ million+ condos around) feel they have licence to drive extra stupid because traffic is way down..
Just the other day when I stopped at the coffee shop on one of my walks fr a to go cup, I saw a Ferarri Portofino as well as three Bentley Mulsannes all parked in the same street within less than a half block area. This isn't unusual. Easily more than 1.5$ million worth total in that small area.
My brother had one of those dreams where you're back in school in a big lecture hall, then he realized no one was wearing a mask, and he wasn't wearing a mask, and thinking maybe he shouldn't be there.
Three things:
A New York Times article noted folks were starting to get spooked by ghosts in their homes during the 'Stay at Home'. As I was moving things to the dining table this morning, placing them on a lemon yellow tablecloth that was clean, all good, came back with my plate and there just above where I placed it, was a 'straight varigated black-white' hair similar to what my flatmate's cat Jake would leave behind. We put him to sleep last August due to medical reasons. I showed it to my flatmate and we both were freaked a bit. We had just said that we had not noted anything around our apartment complex ghostly at all.
Covid-19 has come too close. A member of the Target where my flatmate is working, tested positive on the 14th day he was in quarantine due to exposure. Please be careful out there, wear your masks, even if you feel fine, you can't know if you are carrying the virus until you are tested or get sick.
For a laugh, a friend sent me this link. https://i.imgur.com/gg6kzvj.gifv if you love kittens and Siberan Huskies this is for you.
Mary
We have 6 people we knew die of it. They were 45 or older. Only 1 had a pre-existing condition. Though the 45yo was a homeless drug user, but he looked to be in his 60's.
It is not a nice disease.
may very well be the end
People in big cities are really at risk. Living out here in a remote part of NY State I haven't heard of anybody I know getting it much less dying of it, yet.(Knock on wood) But neither have I heard of anybody getting mugged or in an automobile accident which happens a lot. So, just because I don't witness it, doesn't mean it isn't happening. Some people are too eager to forget that. All it takes is one misstep or unlucky encounter. Stay prudent.
We have a weather system moving in and the headache grew beyond my meds to cope, so Bugsy and I took a walk to Cherry Creek across our street. I was able to watch some Canadian Geese sunbathing on the rocks in the creek, drinking and enjoying themselves. All my pictures are blured. I saw a man and his young son and a man and his dog, both playing with a circular type toy, like a Frisbee with a hole in the center; kid and dog having a ball. Both groups separated by maybe 300 feet. Unfortunately, the moment the computers came back on, the headache roared back. I wish DS had the option for larger text.
I live in L.A. and so far don't know anyone who has/had it or at least tested positive. A friend and I may have had mild cases early on but until there are antibody tests, we won't know. California has been really strict which is great but may be starting to open too soon (but with strong restrictions) because idiots are protesting. On the streets, half have masks, half don't. I live in an area with a lot of 20/30 somethings who think they are immune and just want to party. Many house parties have been reported in LA mansions and large AirbnBs. I'm staying put except to go to grocery store.
Also street crime is encroaching into good neighborhoods. Most homeless were put into empty hotels and motels and getting free meals. But the drug addicted/alcoholic homeless are staying on the streets and some now being reported to have weapons. Package thieves are having a field day and many actually have nice cars! Ring doorbell apps are catching all these criminals on video but the police just let them go. I've seen tons of home security camera video footage of homeless taking off all their clothes and sleeping and doing drugs, peeing and pooping on people's porches, sometimes even getting through gates. Other criminals are stealing bicycles and following delivery trucks to steal packages. I've been following the Ring Neighbors app and Citizens app and it's scary!
...I love the husky's expression.
...yeah lot different in the city. As I may have mentioned even our building has experienced a rash of shipment thefts. If I see anyone whom I do not recognise standing around by the front door when I return form a walk or errand, I just go over to the little park across the intersection and sit down on a bench until they leave. .If I come down into the lobby on my way out and see strangers hanging around outside, I make it look like i'm going to check the mail and then go through the indoor car park to exit from a different door.
It's definitely a different experience depending on where you live...the NYC metro area that encompasses most of Connecticut and New Jersey is a nightmare zone (I live in central Connecticut). People often forget that this thing doesn't care about borders and state lines. My cousin who is a paramedic was born and raised in Connecticut and only recently moved to South Carolina...and even in that little time, his mentality seems to have shifted. With his being a paramedic, I was dumbfounded that he wasn't taking this as seriously as I would have thought...I'd gather his mindset as a front-line responder would be something rather different if he was back home.
I've stopped looking at the news...otherwise I don't think I'd get out of bed. Though I recently learned that as of 5/20, there is a plan to re-open restaurants, retail including indoor malls (seriously, wtf here), and salons. Sorry. No amount of hair growth would push me to go to a salon right now. Restaurants will be outdoor dining only, and masks will be required...have no idea how that is going to work. But still...nope. Delivery and home cooking it is for the forseeable future for me. I'm not playing with fire. My money is on everything getting tightened back up in three weeks once another wave of people getting sick hits. We're still at our peak...it's a mistake.