Keeping your cool?

[ggould]

I don't know if we've talked about the weather, but it's definitely a story.  I just wonder how the rest of you are dealing with the heat.  We went to a wedding in San Ramon today, and the reception at the country club was a survival-oriented affair.  When it's almost 110 outside, the mediocre air conditioning just didn't quite cut it.  Us fog beasts were just in awe, as in "it's not really this hot, is it?"  We had to leave early to get one of my daughters to work, and spent ages in traffic approaching the Bay Bridge, the A/C in the car never quite getting the job done.  Oy!

It's good to be back near the beach, but we're headed to Truckee in the morning, and I just hope to cope!

ETA:  No wonder it felt hot; looking in the paper this morning, it got up to 113 in San Ramon yesterday!  We arrived in Truckee, where it's cooler, but when we got out of the car in Dixon, to get a Frappacino, it was total ovensville!

[Alicat]

Nor surviving well. 105 at my house yesterday and didn't get below 90 indoors until 1am. Headed to a restaurant at the mall for dinner (AC!) and going to a movie today. I did Fandango just to be sure we got a ticket to get in. Mizzerable.

[RGMike]

Even SF proper was low 90s Sat and close to it today.  But it's breezy; and as long as the air's moving my apartment has cross-ventilation.  But still, last nite was the first time in ages I've slept with all the windows open.

[darryl]

Several hours Saturday were spent in what must be one of the few houses in Vallejo w/o air-conditioning.  My mother-in-law thought her house would be a fine location for her my sister-in-law's baby shower.

Oh man, was it not.

I think I went through more sodas, water, and a single beer in 4-5 hours than I've ever had to, just to survive.  Fans were doing nothing but recirculating oven hot air.  Hardly any breezes at all, especially through the house.

Brothers of my sister-in-law from SF commented that they didn't mind the heat so much because at least they got to go back to the (relative) cool of SF.  Before leaving, one noted that the interior or suface temp of his car's thermometer read 128 deg.  On our way out, the local high school's electronic sign read 112 deg.  A temp gauge inside the "cooler" laundry room next to the garage read 95.

But the day ended better.  Headed to Alameda to shower and drop the son off w/ my folks and got to the Warfield to catch The Raconteurs.  They ripped it up.  Really really great show.  And whew -- cool weather.

Back down in San Jose caught a midnight showing of Clerks II in a chilly theater, and then back home where it was hot as hell and we had to crank up the A/C just to get to sleep.  Finally cool enough w/ just open windows at 3AM, but at 8:30AM it was up to 90something again.

So yeah, the heat's been pretty draining.  We got some time in at my brother's condo's pool in Alameda this afternoon.  Pretty nice, but being in the sun tired us out too...

Actually somewhat looking forward to the coolness of my cubicle tomorrow.

[urth]

Spent the weekend up in Portland, and it was no better up there. In fact, somewhat worse, since, like SF, they normally do not get temps above the 80s, so many places are not air conditioned. Luckily our hotel was, so we had someplace to retreat to Friday night and Saturday (which was only in the 90s, but overcast and very humid, so not a big improvement). But yesterday, we had to check out by noon, and our flight home wasn't until 8, so we spent some time in an airconditioned arcade playing skeeball and air hockey. Then to a movie theater for Clerks II. Totally worth the cost of admission just for the AC, but the film was decent, although not really a stretch for Kevin Smith. Still, I don't think it soiled the memory of the original significantly, and there were several really funny scenes. And the theater was packed.

But man was it nice to land in OAK at 9:45 and find temps in the 70s and breezes. Glad I'm not in Sacramento--yikes!!!

[mshray]

Nor surviving well. 105 at my house yesterday and didn't get below 90 indoors until 1am. Headed to a restaurant at the mall for dinner (AC!) and going to a movie today. I did Fandango just to be sure we got a ticket to get in. Mizzerable.

Pretty much the same thing in Castro Valley, definitely in the 90's in the upstairs bedrooms until quite late, 104 on the shady front porch in the afternoon.  Spent good chunks of Sat & Sun hanging at my wife's air-conditioned office, let the kids watch DVD's on my portable player, ate take-out in a conf. room, etc.  Headed back into it right now, it will be well over 110 degrees again on 680 as I drive my non-air-conditioned truck over the Sunol grade & thru Pleasanton.

Yikes indeed!

[Gazoo]

I'm actually grateful that I've had so many office assignments the past two weeks: Working from home in these conditions would have been unbearable.  (For those of you who haven't been in my apartment -- I have one window, and an air-conditioner that dates to probably the 1950s built into the wall.  The AC works inefficiently and erratically.  Bleah.  Give me autumn.