Rovarsson, here in Italy is usual tying warmer tops (sweaters or light, thin pullovers) around the waist, ready to be weared if climate gets colder (incidentally, an interesting parser IF coding exercise)
Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.
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Our AC stopped working Saturday afternoon. I thought, no problem we have backup window units for power outages and hurricanes which are not uncommon in Texas. The backup also stopped working! The electronic control panel failed. Called AC company. They charge double on weekends. Wait for Monday. It was mid 80s inside both Saturday and Sunday evenings, 90+ during the day. Fans helped a little.
AC company arrived Monday afternoon. They replaced the fan motor capacitor - working again. I was afraid we were going to have to replace the central unit with a new modern version. Big Money. But not. (Reasonable price. Local family run business. Very honest)
Whew! Now 73 -74. Good deal for senior folks! All good!
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Just to make sure everyone here understands how serious this is: from June through September, Texans live in constant fear of their AC quitting. It’s in the 90s now, but at any moment the temperature could rocket to 105 (80 low) and stay there for weeks, and that’s a killing temperature.
So glad you got it fixed pronto, and for a reasonable cost! Kinda scary to see that happening right before the Big Heat.
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Still decluttering and making progress 
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Last year in the Houston area, the entire month of July was over 100 degrees during the day. 
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Getting thoroughly humbled by arts and crafts aimed at three year olds and older with the kid.
I swear I’m an artist! 
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Ngl, I sorta identify with the sheep here.
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The sheep on the package label look all conformist and boring. Your sheep is an individual! With a pompadour-mohawk kind of hairdo, which is pretty rawr. And a leg that looks removable, which could be really handy in a situation I can’t think of now, but I’m sure exists.
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@Texans: And I thought the local climate here in NC was brutally hot… Granted, I start sweating at room temperature wearing nothing but swim trunks and would rather spin 5 minutes out in freezing weather in shorts and a t-shirt than an hour in a heated building in long pants and my prefered way of staying warm at nigh in the dead of winter is to cacoon myself in blankets and let my metabolism do its job(the trailer I live in has no central HVAC, but while everyone in this trailer has a window or portable AC for their room, I’m the only one without a space heater and don’t want one(if anything, I get grouchy in the winter because too much heat leaks into my bedroom from the rest of the trailer for me to enjoy bundling up in my favorite hoodie and socks.
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You’ll laugh, but my husband and I are Texans and we came to NC for the summer to get cooler weather. And in the mountains, it indeed is SO much cooler.
In positive news: we are pretty well settled in and getting our routines going. The dog is seriously settled in (good soft dog beds in every room is really all she needs to be happy) and the parakeets, after a couple of weeks of appalled quiet, decided it’s OK here and are as good-natured as ever.
There’s no moon here in this mountain bowl at this time of year, which is weird. It’s so, so dark without it. We’re surrounded by forest and last night the sky through the trees at sunset was purple. Tonight it’s electric blue. It was 60F when I woke up this morning and it’s about 70 now. It got up to 84 this afternoon, so it was warm in the sun, but the mountain to our west shields us from the late-day heat and the temperature starts dropping at 5:00. In central Texas, it’s still in the 90s at 9:00 PM, so it never stops amazing us that it’s so cool in the evening, and there’s always a breeze.
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Finally got around to fixing an issue with my Neocities- there were too many game widgets linked on the same page, so it would break randomly on some of them. I split it up into three different pages, (Twine games, interactive fiction made using other tools, and interactive fiction adjacent miscellaneous bits and bobs, like zines/ttrpgs/prompts), and that looks much nicer.
ETA: Also added a page listing all of the game jams I’ve participated in, and the games I submitted. Jeez, that took forever.
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Finished packing (mostly)! That means rest time…
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Today was a good day. I spent time with the kid, did arts and crafts, enjoyed writing, and wrapped up a game for my friend Kat’s Bluebeard Jam. I’ve been sort of slowly working up to my usual creative output as of late, and that feels really good, to be hopping back in the driver’s seat.
I also like to try to submit things to my friends jams when I have the spoons to make something, as a show of support, and I’d missed out on the deadlines for a few of Kat’s before in the past, so it was really cool to be able to put something together for this one. Especially because the jam came about out of a late night conversation between the both of us about how many IF works retell or are inspired by Bluebeard.
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Just played I.A.G. Alpha and it’s really good. I enjoyed the clever puzzles that were suuuuuper meta and yet worked well.
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The mountain in your area of the country so beautiful. It is one of our favorite places to visit. Maybe in the fall?
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While decluttering, found some old silk blouses I’d forgotten about that have turned out to be surprisingly summer-appropriate.
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Going away on holiday tomorrow! You won’t hear from me for 3 weeks (although maybe every now and again, depending), which means I’ll be missing some important things!
I better have planned out ALL OF THE BACKSTORY for my WIP on the plane … That’s 5 hours each way! I have a lot of backstory though.
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My paper is on the arXiv! This isn’t an especially impressive achievement—it’s still not peer-reviewed or anything—but after the logistical hassle I had to go through to get it working, I’m celebrating anyway.
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