Weather Ever Changing

In which things get sweaty

Written by Forest Pines; published at 10:27 pm on July 2nd, 2009.
Filed under: Dear Diary.

I had hoped that a thunderstorm would clear the air, get rid of some of the humidity, cool things down a bit. Unfortunately, nothing changed. We had the thunderstorm, and half an hour later the ground was dry and the weather was still hot, muggy, and sticky to the touch. Oh well. Summer isn’t nice when it’s too hot to think.

Things I was going to blog about recently but haven’t: the rather silly “let’s bring the World Cup to Bristol” proposals, which seem like nothing more than a plan to blackmail the council planning department into letting Tesco build a new Ashton store, two minutes down the street from the Sainsbury’s that’s already there. Plus, the Easton Arts Trail, a rather enjoyable wander round which, already, was nearly a fortnight ago. Not to mention pictures of old trains from the weekend before that, and all the other things we’ve been getting up to lately apart from the strange foreign dirty movies. If it’s too hot to leave the sofa, it’s definitely too hot to blog

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Snippets

In which things are still getting hot and sticky

Written by Forest Pines; published at 8:33 am on April 28th, 2006.
Filed under: Dear Diary, Meta, The Office.

It’s that Friday post again…

It’s also getting into the hayfever season. I’m already getting complaints about the volume of my sneezes. This morning, though, whilst getting dressed I sneezed. And fell over. With one sneeze, my back became a little world of pain. I could barely move, and had to lie on the floor whimpering for ten minutes in the hope it would go away. It still hurts quite a lot as I’m sat writing this.

Things I’ve been thinking about a lot this week: the rubbish choice we have in the local elections, Flann O’Brien, and the Plain People Of The Internet. Expect them to pop up here again soon.

Following up Tuesday’s post: our ventilation fight with the Office Manager goes on. His latest claim is that it would be illegal for us to prop the door open, under the fire regulations. In retaliation, I now have a digital thermometer on my desk. At least The Boss is starting to weigh in on our side, having realised just how warm our office gets. Currently we’re at 22.3 Celsius and rising.

There was a bit of a spike in blog traffic the other day; it turns out I was spidered by a mysterious site which consists solely of an “under construction” page. How 1990s of them. I suppose it’s my own fault for not setting up robots.txt properly.

Following up from yesterday: I was chatting with my colleague Antivirus the other day, and mentioned that I’d been out “near [nearest large town]“. She not only said: “oh, to the Theatrical And Social Club?”* but said some rather tantalising things. I’m a bit suspicious that either she might have been there herself,** or we have mutual acquaintances that I haven’t worked out yet, because they implied she knew some “you had to be there” stuff. Fortunately I know from experience what her level of computer ability is, so she’s not likely to be reading this. Probably it’s just a funny coincidence.

Current temperature: 23.8 Celsius and rising. Sorry, 23.9.*** I’m off to get a glass of water.

* Well, she didn’t, because that’s not its name, but you know what I mean.

** But that’s unlikely, because she would surely have come up to me and said hello if she’d seen me.

*** or 75.2 if you’re American. Although it went up to 76.3 in the time it took me to write this footnote.

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Sweaty

In which things get hot and sticky at the office

Written by Forest Pines; published at 9:03 pm on April 25th, 2006.
Filed under: The Office.

It’s still only spring, and it’s becoming rather clear that our new office was rather badly planned. It’s a two-person office, with lots of computers in it,* no windows, no air conditioning, and a door which, we’re told, must remain closed. The only concession to ventilation is a small extractor fan – the only incoming air is from the corridor. The fan itself was an after-thought, installed after the office secretary started campaigning for us.

It was only a mildly warm day outside today, but the office was already unbearable. I sat in a sleepy stupor all afternoon. In a couple of months, it’s going to be a danger to our health. I really must bring in a thermometer to see just how hot it gets in there.

* five at present.

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