Help! The heat is sucking my will to live!
Finally, a little gloebull warmening. 88 here, and I’d oughta be outdoors clearing brush, but I’m inside watching Eddie Izzard and Harry Potter.
Fuck this heat.
OK, I’m going out in a bit. Let me get cooled down first.
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Let’s see…
Low last night was 86.
High a few days ago was 112.
Of course this is Clark County Nevada and…
iT’S A DRY HEAT.
Last time I checked, it was 86 with 60% humidity.It always sucks in cincinnasty.112 is pushing it but it is a dry heat.
swmbo
Well, I gave in to my guilt and went and cleared brush for a couple hours. I managed to get about 50′ of the pond shore cleared of brush, and tied ropes around the resulting brushpile, and used the Exploder to drag it up to the street. (Note to M. Alger: I screamed in fear driving the exploder up the 40 degree grade, I was sure the exploder was turning over!!! THAT”S offroad! LOL!)
If the Ford Exploder is your work truck, what do ya drive around town?
A Ford Pinto with the gas tank that ‘splode’s, maybe?
I’d fucking pay somebody for it to be that cold in Texas right about now.
88 is a cold front.
40 degrees… (giggle!)
Well, Dick, I can’t afford the REAL stuff. When I win the lotto, though, I’m gonna get a Unimog.
I also cannot stand the heat. I was also a very heavy sweater when I was thin (I used to run out of sweat and get very dizzy in Basic Training, no matter how many times I refilled the canteen at the Lister Bag), so it isn’t fat boy stress.
I think of how my father came home red-faced from the 120 degree steel mill, and find it hard to find fault with anything I have to do in the heat that’s comparable. That’s all I need to buck up and get out there.
Eddie Izzard and Harry Potter? That’s quite a combo you’ve got going there, Og. I’m watching Harry Potter tonight. All five movies. Love em!
I swear to God, the heat is not what’s getting me down this summer. It’s all this frackin’ rain.
Dear Lord, please send some of this up to Og. Amen.
Hell, we have STREETS in this town with 40deg grades. 45 even. (There’s a street called Straight near the University that they joke goes STRAIGHT downhill.
Pussy.
::gd&r::
M
pussy? you’re driving on pavement. try fresh watered mud. towing half a ton of brush. dodging trees. please do try and keep up.
Sheah…
It was 88 degrees about 7:30 AM yesterday, *and* the humidity was thick enough to cut with a knife. By mid afternoon it was over 100 and sauna-like, with thunderstorms ripping on the horizon all around me, but with none of them relieving my patch of parched earth. I spent much of the weekend clearing brush and laying out fence lines and utility lines.
Coming in to work Monday morning at my air-conditioned cubicle feels more like the weekend than the actual weekend.
Yeah. If there’s time next you’re in town, remind me to turn off Sycamore hill onto Mulberry and then onto short Main. Put out your hat to catch your stomach when we reach bottom.
Mud ain’t got nothing on freefall in a four-wheeler.
M
I want to go for that ride !
Toni
bring it. I’ve driven in san francisco.
I hate the heat. It’s easier for me to stay warm than it is to cool down. With it being 90 degrees and 85% humidity, I turned on the AC due to the wife’s pleading.
I can’t say no to her when she bats her eyes at me.
It must be a man thing to try to move the half ton of brush in one trip. How about two trips? Or even more if that was less dangerous?
nancy, it’s about getting the job done.
And about living to write about it.
Toni
I’ll be more than happy to drive all of you guys off a nice mountain at Tellico, just to see who pukes, or screams, first:)
I’ve been in the Moab, Dick.
yeah, I peed my pants. A little.
You’ve heard the scary stories about moonshiners driving mountain roads in the Appalachians? Well, these parts may only be the foothills, but it’s the same kind of country.
A car ain’t SUPPOSED to go airborne at under 25 MPH.
M
heard stories? family members running shine even now.