Temp: 29 Degrees
Well, the radio said it was hitting 30 today, and while it felt hot, hot, hot! - my faithful car thermometer said it peaked at 29 on my way home from work, and trust me, that puppy's faithful... no matter where I'm driving, if the radio says "it's currently 18 degrees in Ladner", and I happen to be in Ladner, my dashboard 'exteral temperature' will read 18. It's pretty awesome when I'm driving home from work and the Radio says "It currently 24 in Burnaby, 26 in Port Moody, and reaching hights of 27 in Pitt Meadows" ... and sure enough when I leave work the car says it's 24, when I get to Port Moody the car is registering 26, and by time I get home it's 27 ... yes, I know I don't live in Pitt Meadows, but that's the closest weather reporting station to where I live, and it's pretty darned accurate. So, basically what I'm saying is, after 6 years of the same commute, I pretty much trust my car's thermomether implicityly - it's always right - and on those rare occasions when the radio says something different, I just assume the announcer made an error. My car is never wrong.
So today was 29. Tomorrow's supposed to be a few degrees hotter. Finally! Here come the REAL heat again.
I spent this entire afternoon/evening in the sun - from 4PM 'till 7:30PM I was outside, topless, making 'gardening' excuses to be out tanning. And in that 3 and a half hours I manages to go through 7 beers ... don't ask me how that happened, I guess it must've been HOT! I wasn't feeling hungry, so I didn't bother making dinner, and fortunatey when Carole came home, she was happy to just heat up her leftover pork, potato and corn from the day before.
Thirtieth day of summer already -how strange is that! Have you ever written the word thirtieth before? I don't think I have... but I just looked it up, and the spelling is right. Weird! It doesn't look right, does it... well anyway, thirtiest day of summer. Hmmmmm. I suppose some reflection is waranted. I started this blog up again with a distinct reason: SUMMER BLOG. I promised myself I'd log everything significant for the duration of this season so that I could look back and see if I really took advantage of the summer, or if I just fucked around. So far, I'm still uncertain. To be honest, I don't think I've done that much... sure, I've tanned a lot, I've geocached a bit and I've been away on several trips (Harrison, Bowen, Edmonton - oh no! I'm doomed to only go to places that end in "n"!!!) and I've donr a lot of yard work and basement work, but I still feel like the bulk of my time has been wasted.
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong - maybe I'll look back at this and say "see? You averaged 2.3 hours a day, just lounging outdoors, soaking up the sun - isn't that exactly what you'd hoped to achieve? Free time to just emjoy the summer?" After all, I DID spent the entirety of last summer sequestered indoors working while the infamous "strike" went on outside, so maybe this is exactly what I need?
Well, what I really need is a vacation. I just got a nice note from my employer this weeks that says "you have 29 vacation days banked from last year (yeah, no shit... I wasn't allowed to take any vacation during the strike!) and if you don't take them by the end of this year, they will be forfiet. Wha??? I just took a 2 week wacation in Europe - I've taken plenty of 'single' days off... in fact, Carole has already used up sll of her vacation days, so what exactly am I supposed to do with these extra 29? Stay home and play Need For Speed? I think not. Go tanning? Maybe, but that's hardly good use of time... I dunno... maybe I'll meet someone in the next couple weeks that's really into fishing or camping or something, and I can invite myself along for a few weeks... I dunno... any ideas?
Posted by Calvin at July 20, 2006 10:00 PM