Daily Rambling
Well the site is visible in most browsers, I was checking stuff that way today, and had some friends take a look and they saw it too.  However I doubt anyone else did, since this isn't on any search engines anywhere, and what are the odds of someone typing in the exact domain name?  Not very, being as no one had bought it before me.

Watched some of the Olympics tonight, figure skating, and it was well presented.  Which means the network didn't ruin it by totally ignoring everyone not from the US, didn't edit down all the events to just show the last 20 seconds, etc.  They only do that with figure skating.  Fear the female demographic!

Hot today.  Hot in February.  I'm sure 99% of people would love that, as you shiver and quake in your miserable midwestern and eastern and northern states, and even other countries, but 80+, hot dry desert winds, and cloudless seems so unnatural for February.  It's not that uncommon here in San Diego area, and if you can't afford to live right on the coast here (which I can't) you takes what you get.

Right now at almost 1am it's 77 with 24% humidity in my living room, with the windows open since dark.  I'd like it about 65 with 70% humidity every day, if possible.  Hotter than 75 is way too hot, and I get depressed, thinking that it'll be that hot or hotter virtually every day from June to November.

A couple of weeks ago it was like this, and we had massive brush fires, with dozens of million dollar mansions burning down up in the North County. I'm sort of at the edge of the East County; I'd need to be about 10 miles east to really be in it, but close enough.  It's probably 15 degrees hotter every sunny day out there, and I can often see huge black clouds of smoke from brush fires in the summer.

In the summer when we get the Santa Ana winds, which is high pressure and an offshore flow pulling the hot air from the deserts out to sea, it's often 100 degrees and almost zero humidity.  Of course lots of people live in Vegas and Phoenix where that's a cool day, but then again, those people are insane and really enjoy air conditioning.

Usually the summer weather here isn't so bad, 70's and 80's with some humidity, not so much that it's painful and awful, like in the midwest or south. Muggy weather is intolerable to me, and I don't much like having to survive by hiding inside with A/C on.  Screws with the sinuses.

But at the same time, any weather over 80 is too hot, IMHO.  I don't like wearing shorts and still being sweaty.  I don't like having to run the A/C all the time in the car.  I don't like it being bright and cloudless all day (which it is most of the winter, but at least it's only 70 then).  Of course most people seem to find that paradise, and like hot weather.  I get depressed at just the thought of summer here, I'm so miserable for like 4 months, usually June to Sept or Oct, sweaty all day, fans on to keep cool, can't sleep in the day since it heats up too much, can't sleep with covers on.  Makes me want to move to Seattle, or New Zealand or something.  

I have to get my writing going and make money to live on, (which I've been saying regularly to myself since about 1992) then I could live wherever I wanted to, beach front house here maybe, it's 15 degrees cooler at the beach than in La Fucking Mesa.  Or move up to the Pacific Northwest and live somewhere I can go hike and mountain bike in a forest like the fricking Ewoks lived in, rather than the hot dry dusty semi-desert trails around here.  Buffeted by the scorching, sulfer-tainted, hot winds of hell.

(There's an old Slayer song with the chorus, "Hot... winds of hell!" and it always sounds like "Hot... wings of hell!" as he garbles it over screaming guitars, and I always think, "New, at KFC!"  Though I suppose Chili's or someplace like that would be more likely to actually sell hot wings of hell.)

I could wake up one day with my apt transported to Zimbabwe, and I wouldn't know or care for weeks, as long as my cable modem kept working.  And it wasn't too hot.

Oh well, another recycled blog, and back to the site updating.

I'm doing the old stories I wrote for Halloween on the D2 site, and it's fun to read them again, and do the comments page.  I do love to talk about my own work. ;)

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