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July 14, 2005
Why I prefer January to July
Over the last 26 days it's been above 90° for 20 of those days and it doesn't look like there's any break in that as the forecasts say 94-98° for at least another week. In January, even when it gets single-digit or below-zero cold, it's not for very long if at all. A couple of days at most. When I was a kid we used to have week-long streaks of below-zero high temperatures, but not anymore.
I haven't really had to worry about a car starting due to cold for a few years but my poor little 1986 Toyota Corolla is prone to stalling with the AC on full blast if you don't have the engine revving. Putting your car in park and flooring it at stoplights is kind of a pain.
I'd be taking the bus to work if it wasn't for my class in the middle of the day. The insides of the city buses are always frigid in the summer and with gas at $2.29 and rising it makes sense in other ways too. Instead, I drive 20 miles each day from home to work to school to work to home every day.
Posted by Half-Cocked at July 14, 2005 10:37 PM
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I love the frigid bus interiors. That's one of the best parts about riding the bus on a blazing summer day.
What I could do without are the bus drivers who think there are only two options while driving: accelerate by pressing firmly on the gas pedal, or decelarate by pressing firmly on the brake pedal. Don't they realize that there are three additional options? Lightly press either pedal, or don't press any pedal at all!
Fortunately my regular drivers are all pretty good. My favorite afternoon driver is on vacation, though, leaving us with a different sub every day. Wednesday's sub nearly made me carsick for the first time in 20 years.
Posted by: Mr. Wilson at July 15, 2005 09:38 AM
Wahh. We had two and a half weeks of 100-degree plus days. And my car's A/C doesn't work AT ALL. Nothing like showing up to work with a sweaty back. So there.
Posted by: kristine at July 15, 2005 05:19 PM
But kristine you live in a place where it's supposed to be like that. Anyway, it's not the heat, it's the humidity, right?
Another reader of this weblog is known to put a line of Platinum Secret down his back if he's going on a long, hot car ride.
Posted by: Steve at July 15, 2005 06:13 PM