It has been hot as balls here of late and I am talking record setting for my current part of Minnesota. It's a thick heat. The other thing is they haven't quite figured out how to condition the air against these conditions. Walking around outside produces a universal human glisten. Then when you happily make it indoors the air conditioning is trying so hard to keep the moisture outside that its like walking in to an environment best described as clammy.
Its probably because they don't get a lot of practice cooling things down or because most of the locals have a cabin "up North" where they get away for weeks at a time. I think this is a throwback to a time before conditioned air. You would get into your mode of horse-drawn transportation and head North until it no longer felt like you were trying to breathe underwater. Most of these cabins are on a lake but this entire state is choc-full-o water filled holes. They brag about it on their license plates. I tell you that because you don't have to drive "up" on the map to find water. Its all around. This has to be an escape the brief heat thing.
Even at my apartment the common area hallways are roughly fifty degrees. I'm going to store my root vegetables and canned goods outside my front door in a pair of old record crates. (if you are too young to know what those are use the google, I'm sure they are back in style or at the very least you can find a picture of one but don’t bother as I have zero root veggies and few cans) Speaking of the heat my apartment building has a pool and its not the fun accessory that everyone thinks.
When it first opened I noticed the flood of pool behavior related emails but I chalked that up to new building and post covid. Nope. Way too many humans at different stages of life all trying to use a tiny little space. It's actually kind of entertaining. I was outside last weekend cooking a steak and some drunk twenty-somethings were bowing up against some older sober Dads. I couldn't hear everything that was being said but it boiled down to behavior in front of kids. The twenties couldnt back down due to the presence of similarly aged females and the Dads were protecting their families. Also the Dads were most likely upset because they were not hammered on skinny can seltzer sips or whatever those effing things are called.
So hot in fact that this week a relatively clear sky leaked rain as humidity molecules joined hands and formed spontaneous raindrops. I will leave you with a poor picture of said same…
