Wow, this is the 9th day in a row above 35 degrees celcius here, apparently a record for the state. No relief until Monday next week at least. Keep those airconditioners going people! Maybe if we turn them up high enough we might just reverse global warming! rolleyes
Last week I got a phone call from my Nanna’s husband, Doug, a 70-something year-old who’s semi-competent with computers. He wanted me to come over and take a look at his computer because his Internet Explorer kept hanging when he went to his church’s website (Church of Latterday Saints). So I went over there.
His place is about 20 minutes away. This day just so happened to be one of the days where my car’s air-conditioning was doing a fantastic job by not turning on at all. I wind my window down as far as it goes. (about 1/3rd, thanks to Mr. Daniel Thorpe) I arrive there and peel myself out of my seat, and step out onto the footpath. It was warm out here, but not as bad as what the car was. I knock on the door and Nanna answers it and lets me in. It’s like the friggin’ Arctic. I couldn’t spot the polar bears or penguins, and I might’ve seen an igloo. (heat exhaustion, anyone?) There’s Doug sitting in his computer chair, and he welcomes me in. He’s not wearing a shirt. Not what you want to see. I helped him through his problem and almost instantly suggested he try Mozilla Firefox and so he did. Importing his bookmarks was a cinch, and that’s all he wanted. They bought me lunch and afterwards we talked for a bit, and I left.
That image will still haunt me. Doug, in shorts, no shirt. shudder