Praise Be to Ra
It's warm.
It's 11:35 at night, and it is warm. I am sitting on my porch with a cold beer.
I do not have knee socks on, nor am I wrapped in the big purple down blanket. I am not drinking hot tea.
I could get religion again for weather like this. Y'all just don't know. No, seriously, y'all just do not know. I have been so fucking happy the last few days.
Of course, the news stations are warning everyone about the Severe Weather Advisory! that will be in effect until 11pm tomorrow night. It may, you see, get up into the high 80s, or perhaps even (brace yourselves) the low 90s tomorrow. With no humidity and the ever-present Maritime Breeze, it will feel substantially lower than the numbers say, but no matter. This is a Severe Weather Advisory! event.
Many across the city have already commenced the wailing and gnashing of teeth .
I am not worried. I am ecstatic. I am going to pop another bottle of Black Dog Ale tomorrow night, and build that shrine to Ra.
* I have discovered something freaky. Go click on your scroll bar, and move it up and down really fast. See it? The sun's ray's are waving up and down. Optical illusion? I think not. The sun happy as hell because PNWers can finally see AND feel him? Oh yeah. Behold, the Power of Ra, bitches.
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So was Ra the inspiration for that tattoo of yours, the spidery one? He he. Low 90's huh? That is a catastrophe. Perhaps the Rethuglicans can issue an orange alert against the weather terrorists. The resulting fear might just be enough to get some of you west coast commies to switch sides. did I mention I hate my President, lately? My anger is enough to ruin the pleasant days you so aptly describe. I will try to keep it in check...
The place I'm temping keeps it 65 degrees all day every day :(. When I got home yesterday and proceeded to cook dinner? My friends looked at me like I was insane! It's too hot to cook! I gave them what they call my "pirate" look. I lived in the tropics for 4 years, this is not "too hot to cook" unless I am dripping with sweat as I pull things out of the fridge!
PNWers are funny people. They will be the first to melt when the climate change goes full force.
Growl.....Hiss.....Growl....Hiss....I loath the heat and sun and wanna slap all you sun/heat whores!!!!!
While I am not the sun worshipper you are, I gotta say that the media here and their "severe weather" crap just bug me to death. It's "severe" weather if it gets over 80, it's "severe" weather if it looks like it might snow in the mountains in December. Seriously, what is wrong with these people. "Severe" weather is, oh, I don't know, a blizzard that drops 3 feet of snow in an hour or perhaps a hurricane that destroys a city. Really, I just want to slap them all.
And I admit, I don't get super peppy if it gets over 90 but I figure that's God's little way of saying "Don't do anything and have a tall cool one". Right?
Good morning everyone! Another beautiful Severe Weather day in the Puget Sound! WhoofuckinHOO!
Tater, yes, I am a sun-whore. If I didn't look so much like my mom, I'd swear I was switched at birth, and there's some chick in the tropics crying about the heat. (Mom & sis both hate the heat) I hate the pseudo-Pres too. Too bad he's from Texas, the heat won't kill him. No wonder he doesn't believe in global warming.
TW: ohmygawd, I HATE air conditioning -- my office is cold all year round. I lived overseas for 12 years, hot humid summers, they didn't have air conditioning there. People lived.
My dear "Anonymous" (you know, you can check "other" and get a frickin' name. Sweet Jasmine comes to mind. Or the sun-hating Sicilian Anomoly.) Quitcher bitching. You get the other 358 days of the year with your grey fucking misty 'cozy'ass weather. You can not bring me down today. The sun's out. You'll be in air conditioning all day, and I'm sure they'll have that shit pumping full force so y'all don't get heat stroke. Cheers! Luv ya! xoxoxo! Puszika, kedvesem!
L: Thank you. That's all I'm saying. A little perspective, people.
I like a little dose of vicarious-icity every morning and this does it, thank you very much.
There's a law here, that we're not supposed to complain about our perpetual spring (in fact, I think there's just a BIG law that you're not supposed to complain about ANYTHING in Santa Barbara), but I miss those long, hot nights that threaten a worse day tomorrow.
You always get to drink through them. No one drinks through marine layers. Well. Unless it's that hot tea.
Mmmm...I'm right there with ya sistuh girrrl. (I'm getting down with my bad self even as I type)
My weekend in Tokeland gave me just the base tan I need to feel fully confident in my future age spots, leathery décolleté and the impending doom of skin cancer.
wait wait wait... that was NOT a passive-aggressive attempt to ruin your worship. Just that I am soooo loving the sun right now, that the risk of all it's down sides mean nothing to me. Nothing I say!!
Carry on.
You and I should totally switch geographies for the summer. I'll raise your kids if you'll change the litter box and live in my no-air-conditioning rowhouse through heat indexes of 105. Deal?
in Ottawa we normally have too seasons: -35 winter or + 40 summer. Between the two come a day or two of: showers things grow - showers things turn colour...
this year its been all fucked up - cold, hot, warm, hot, cold, hot again this morning now warm to cool...
but there is no global warming effect on the weather - Mr Bush and Co say so and they wouldn't lie!
With regard to Ra and his happy rays...how many beers have you been enjoying on that thar porch?
BB: Oh! We have the same unwritten law here. Death to those who disparage The Wonderful Temperate climate, yada yada. If you complain about the heat, people may actually hiss at you.
Hat: I knew exactly what you meant -- I know I should care, and now that I'm no spring chicken, I actually DO care, but ... gawddamn it feels good to be out in it.
Red7: Um ... is it ok that I already bought my plane ticket? Can you handle dogs? Teenage issues? I don't have a dishwasher, hope that's not a problem.
W: You are talking Celcius, right? Global Warming isn't real, silly, it's just another phase our planet is going through because that's the way the Almighty made it. Sheesh!
Hat, Take 2: None! I'm at work! Seriously, move the page up and down, he's waving at you ... really ...
I saw the wave, and waved back. Ra is so considerate!
I have no dishwasher either. And NO CENTRAL AIR CONDITIONING. I said that already, right?
I see those beams waving without touching my scroll bar. They are waving 'hello'.
Played the waving sun rays game. That's cool! Uh, hot.
Okay, when I tried to do the sun ray thing, the sun just turned into a car. Admittedly interesting, but not the effect I was given to expect.
I don't see any "sunrays." I think you have sunstroke, or your drunk...
I did what you said and trod' up all over.....
The wavy sun thing is cool!..how did you do that?
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