For the past month or so it has been ridiculously sizzling outside. My great friend and I normally get some sizzling nights while in the summer, but you can respectfully count on the month of July being more pleasant than the subsequent summer time months – not this year. We’ve had 90 degree nights nonstop since the first nights of July, plus all the people has been using their air conditioning units like crazy to compensate for the heat plus humidity. It’s been an high-priced month for HVAC usage, plus we’re all sad about the excessive energy bills that are coming our way. That being said, no one I know is slowing down their A/C usage in the least, because the alternative is to broil alive in our tiny apartments. I’m severely grateful for the new air conditioning units that my great friend and I bought recently, because they are keeping the indoor air temperature much colder than we’ve been able to achieve in the past years. In fact, it’s been so delightfully cold indoors that sometimes I’ve been too cold at home. I keep wrapping myself in sweatshirts until I have to step outdoors, at which point it’s a mad rush to tear off any extra layers to deal with the summer time heat. The temperature difference between the two environments has been so serious that I’ve even noticed some crazy condensation in the windows lately. The cold air from the air conditioning is producing moisture inside the window frames. I see this as both a blessing plus a curse, because I’m not excited to deal with the subsequent mold complication in a few months.

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