Life in Texas

**slick4591**[$] · #1 08-14-2001, 04:31 PM

This came in an email.

Dear Diary:

May 30th:
Just moved to Texas...Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. Mountains and deserts blend together. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an air conditioned home, drive an air conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a real sun worshipper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used to this kind of heat? At least it's nice and windy though. But getting used to it is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body. Missed two days of work, what a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and exploded all over $2,000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids she ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and Shits!! No more pets in this heat!!

July 25th:
This wind sucks. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's hot as hell. The home air conditioner is on the fritz and AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. $1,500 in damn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug 4th:
It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to about 90. Stupid repairman pissed in my pool. I hate this stupid state.

Aug 8th:
If another wise ass cracks, "Hot enough for you today?", I'm going to tear his throat out. Damn heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I
smell like roasted freaking Garfield!!

Aug 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts and sat on the black leather seating in the ol' car. I thought my ass was on fire. I lost two layers of flesh. Now my car smells like burnt ass AND fried cat.

Aug 10th:
The weather report might as well be a damn recording: Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do shit for two damn months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this barren desert? Water rationing will be next so $1,700 worth of cactus just might dry up and blow into the damn pool. Even a cactus can't live in this heat.

Aug 14:
Welcome to Hell!! Temperature got to 113 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the damned windshield out of the Lincoln. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail.

**taurusmoon** · #2 08-14-2001, 04:38 PM

Hey Dennis,

Hot enough for ya?

Sara

**slick4591**[$] · #3 08-14-2001, 04:48 PM

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Originally posted by taurusmoon
Hey Dennis,

Hot enough for ya?

Sara

**taurusmoon** · #4 08-14-2001, 04:53 PM

Hmmm, is that a heat rash?

**amykhar** · #5 08-14-2001, 04:55 PM

Don't kill her Slick. She knows not what she does.

Amy
(a fellow Texan who understands)

**slick4591**[$] · #6 08-14-2001, 09:13 PM

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Hey slickster... how do you keep your curly-tailed friends from blowin' up like a terrorist's wet dream?

We keep them outta vehicles that have no A/C.

Yep, t I saw that temp, but isn't that a dry heat? :p

Mrsfitts · #7 08-14-2001, 09:58 PM

I just spent 2 weeks in the Desert SouthWest where the lows never got under 80 and the highs stayed above 100 each & every day. I'd hit the swimming pool about 10am when the water temps were about 90 and the outside temps were 95.

I loved the heat -even to 109 it didn't bother me, as long as the humidity stayed in the "teen" percentile. When the humidity climbed over 30% I felt so Swampy! When it was 108 with 56% humidity, I felt overwhelmed.

My friend in Austin had lower Actual temps every day, but her "feels like" temps ran hotter because of that 90% humidity!

If I had my choice of "God's Waiting Rooms" (Miami or Phoenix) I'd choose Phoenix in a heartbeat!

Stay cool

:beer: :beer: :beer:

**AshleyA**[$] · #8 08-15-2001, 10:58 AM

Oh, that was so very, very true. We practically had a blue norther come through here yesterday. The temps only made it up to 93! Brrrrrrr...

We also saw an anomaly in the form of water falling out of the sky. It's amazing what 3 weeks of record-breaking temps and almost 2 months without rain can do to one's psyche.

Ashley

P.S. Slick, don't you get sick of people telling you that because we live in Texas we should be used to the heat?

#9 08-15-2001, 11:41 AM

Driving to Enron Field, the darned car says 101 outside. Bleah.

Came home an chilled. Literally. I gotta tell you, this chiller/mister fan is great outdoors. Sure, you get totally soaked, but it feels like the temperature gets down about 20 degrees.

Now if only I had a laptop that was waterproof.

jnbmoore · #10 08-15-2001, 03:13 PM

I think this fits on topic with your post Slick....

Hubby has a job interview next week in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. It'll be a Friday interview. The guy suggested hubby stay overnight till Saturday for a BBQ and meet the folks of the company informally.

With this heat you describe -- what in the world should hubby take to wear and still be polite? What do business type folks wear down there not to melt...?

Bridgette
slowly realizing our job offers are for hades and hotter than hades.....

**slick4591**[$] · #11 08-15-2001, 04:42 PM

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P.S. Slick, don't you get sick of people telling you that because we live in Texas we should be used to the heat?

Nah, don't bother me none. I just invite them to live here and see if they can get used to it. In all honesty I'd rather be in 100 degree heat than 20 degree cold.

Quote:

The guy suggested hubby stay overnight till Saturday for a BBQ and meet the folks of the company informally.

What do business type folks wear down there not to melt...?

Being a government employee I may not be the best to answer. But, I would think that if the BBQ is outside nice shorts and Polo type shirt (30 PFC or higher lotion a necessity). If it's inside with A/C Dockers would be a safe bet. We've been lucky so far. Only been a couple of days the temps have hit 100. Right now it's 98 with 37% humidity making it feel like 105.

jnbmoore · #12 08-15-2001, 05:00 PM

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Originally posted by slick4591

Being a government employee I may not be the best to answer.

I see.

Government employees always are dressed to the tee. James Bond was a government employee...

So tux for a bbq at slicks

THANKS!!!

Bridgette
whose husband is a railroad signal engineer -- not the best dressed crew around.

mnehr · #13 08-15-2001, 06:20 PM

Bridgette

Don't worry too much about the heat.. Texas is a BIG state and one side of the state is not like the other...
I am not far from Dallas and we have only had a couple of 100+ days this year, the last week it has averaged only 93.... It is also not a desert on this side of the State, it is actually quite pretty.. lots of trees and lakes, very similar to the Carolinas or Virgina...

Dallas is a nice city to live in, if he gets the job, let me know, we can all hook up sometime.. (Jannie0 lives a couple of blocks away from me so it can be one big party)