wherein Liz is hot, tired, and annoyed

[edenfalling]

I wish my computer was better at indicating that it's downloading updates, since that tends to reduce my internet connection to a snail's pace because all the bandwidth is already in use. *sigh* On the bright side, I think it's done for now, which means I may be able to actually update my antivirus program instead of having its update attempts stall out yet again because the connection is too slow.

(I also backed up all my documents, music, and pictures onto my external hard drive, which I do not do nearly as often as I ought to. Ah well.)

...

Anyway, it's about 90 degrees, there's a chance of severe thunderstorms all afternoon and evening, and I have a mile to walk home from the public library where I am currently typing these words. I am tired of summer already and it isn't even officially here yet. Blegh.

Comments

[marmota_b]

How I wish for a thunderstorm and rain. 32 degrees Celsius in the shade in South Moravia yesterday. Today, the sky is completely clear and the day's shaping up for a repeat, and that's been going on for days if not weeks. I keep cool by keeping the windows open at night...

And I feel you on the computer updates. If it's any use to you, Linux (Ubuntu, at least) is very user-friendly in that regard. But I still need Windows programs on the laptop I use for school, so, yeah, not always an option. :P

[edenfalling]

Ithaca did get a thunderstorm, which seems to have broken the heat -- the next week's high temperatures are forecast at 80 or under (~27 Celsius, I think). On the other hand, there seems to be a persistent chance of thunderstorms or simple rainstorms, which is getting annoying. May was already on the rainy side of the scale, and June looks to be following in its footsteps.

I have a window-unit air conditioner, but it's small and feels sort of wasteful to use when I don't really need to, so I prefer when nights get cool enough for me to open all my windows and set up a cross-draft with electric fans. :-)

[marmota_b]

I was visiting a cousin in a village yesterday; they grow lots of things, and it just sort of puts things into perspective... Normally, this period of June is very rainy - there's even a folk saying connected to it - so the heats are weird. The last rain, we've surmised, was probably three weeks ago when we last met, so three weeks of no rain at all is rather discouraging; occasional showers would feel more natural.

[rthstewart]

Oh dear. We've had terrible droughts in some parts of the US and severe flooding in other places. I knew there had been a terrible heat wave in India and frightening weather in Italy and now it seems ruined sardine harvests in Portugal. I hope you see improvements soon because this is not good! the impacts of climate change are indeed awful.

[edenfalling]

I would send you some of my rain if I could! But alas, that is not how weather works.

[marmota_b]

Well, thank you for the offer. :-)