Dances With Refrigerators....
Jul. 24th, 2004 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
djonnHot hot hot in Portland this weekend. 103 yesterday (a record) and likely 100 or higher today as well. (We're supposed to break and hit the "cool" 80s tomorrow....)
My apartment is not a heat sink -- I'm on the bottom of a 3-story building, one of those where the front door is actually half a flight down from ground level, and my windows are north-south and shielded from direct sun for the most part. OTOH, neither am I air conditioned, so I walked down to the supermarket this afternoon and spent some quality time roving from one refrigerator case to the next, soaking in the blessed coolth.
This had an unexpected but profitable side effect -- the supermarket was running a "cake walk" today, and I managed to find the right spot at the right time, which meant that they handed me a free two-layer chocolate-frosted chocolate cake.
For a couple of days of hundred-degree heat every few years, I can deal with free chocolate cake....
My apartment is not a heat sink -- I'm on the bottom of a 3-story building, one of those where the front door is actually half a flight down from ground level, and my windows are north-south and shielded from direct sun for the most part. OTOH, neither am I air conditioned, so I walked down to the supermarket this afternoon and spent some quality time roving from one refrigerator case to the next, soaking in the blessed coolth.
This had an unexpected but profitable side effect -- the supermarket was running a "cake walk" today, and I managed to find the right spot at the right time, which meant that they handed me a free two-layer chocolate-frosted chocolate cake.
For a couple of days of hundred-degree heat every few years, I can deal with free chocolate cake....
