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I know that's not exactly helping with climate change but

Tomorrow I might just sit in my car and run the AC all day

About the nicest thing I can say about Star Trek: Picard is it's led me to appreciate Enterprise by comparison.

I’d stream my nothing-better-to-do Picross except turning on my streaming computer would raise the temperature of my living room by a few degrees.

turns out my cats are smarter than me, my bedroom is about 4° cooler than the living room

I gave Werner a little bowl full of ice and he's very much appreciating it.

This is a cat who is too hot to exist

it's 89°F indoors, which sure beats the 99°F outside right now, or the 110°F I measured earlier today

oh also I've kept my non-North-facing blackout shades closed all day, which helps. I can't imagine how hot it'd be in here if my gigantic South-facing living room window had been letting in light all this time.

wow my ice is already mostly melted ugh

also for the last month I'd been collecting bids on getting a heat pump installed in my home and I really hope that I can get it actually done soon, even though the heat wave will hopefully be long gone by the time I can make it happen. I'll definitely need to be prepared for the next one.

I also hope that having already gotten bids gets me early in line, because I'm sure there's going to be a HUGE rush for installers soon.

Some temperature readings around my home

So I bought 5 bags of ice and put it into a cooler, and then blew my box fan across it... and then the box fan decided today, of all days, to burn out.

But fortunately I found another (much smaller) fan which is working well enough, so I have a small livable spot where I can hang out and, like, not die.

Also it was "cool" and "fun" to see that the outside temperature gauge on my car does have three digits on it after all.

I bought a new refrigerator, and the first delivery attempt failed, and it had to get redelivered today. So I don't have any ice at home. So I went out searching for more ice.

The convenience store across the street: all out. QFC: had some but they were having a power outage and weren't letting people open the freezers. Safeway: doesn't carry it at all.

So I tried Saar's Discount Grocery, and I lucked out as I got there just as they got a new delivery of ice.

Rodin vs. Rodan

Possibly the only good thing to happen on Nextdoor.

(When I first saw it, I just saw the first post and then the "happy to see this" comment and was wondering what the heck there was to be happy about!)

I had a dream that it was dark out, nobody knew what time it was, none of my devices could tell me...

so I checked YouTube, and there was a collaboration video from a couple of cooking channels where they were showing how to cook a ferret. And the ferret they started with had been flayed and gently roasted, but still alive, and lurching around, blind and in agony. And I tried reporting the video as animal cruelty but everyone called me a snowflake. And finally I saw that it was 10:50 AM.

So I shut down my computer and went outside, and it was dark because everything was on fire, everything was burning, the sky filled with smoke and fire. The streets were full of people stoking the flames and trying to trying to destroy what was left, and I took photos of it on my phone, and posted them on Instagram, and my mom replied saying it was such a shame and implied it was all my fault.

Fiona and I just had an entire conversation in slow-blinks.

ah, evolution, apparently. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/mystery-solved-why-cats-eat-grass