HEATWATCH '09

[pauraque_bk]

To punish me for declaring that I like the heat and it never bothers me, Zeus saw fit to turn up the bay area's thermostat to fricassee.

It is of such a heat that when I walk around town, old men smile rakishly at me and quip "It's a warm one!" That kind of heat.

I wouldn't care except that my work has no air conditioning, but it does have huge skylights that turn the place into an EZ-bake oven starting in the early afternoon and ending... never. My minions and I have resolved to quit and work at Starbucks down the block, where it is always of a humane temperature, bless their corporate hearts.

*popsicle*

Nooooooo idea what I'm writing this week yet.

Comments

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Skylights are stupid and dumb.

Um, not if you live in the 'dark as dusk at noon in midwinter' Pacific Northwest... and not if your skylights are double-paned. I've added three skylights to our north-facing part of the house that add really valuable, needed light in winter (because it can get bizarrely dark here periodically), while in summer the skylights are open all night--much more secure than open windows--to help get the house as cold as possible. Then in the morning we close everything up and keep the place nice and cool until the late afternoon heat has passed.

[pauraque]

The ones at work can't be opened due to security concerns (the way the buildings are, it's very easy to get on the roof), much less left open all night, so they only serve to make the place a greenhouse.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm really glad my contractor urged me to get the kind that open. It's been a huge help in ventilating the house, and much safer, at night, than leaving a window open at street level. Unless, of course, you've got evil ninjas roaming around your neighborhood. Then your skylights would be vulnerable, too.

[pauraque]

Haha, it's not so much ninjas as there being a lot of ways to get up there, via fire escapes and the insides of other businesses (the buildings are all joined together on our block). The annoying thing is even though we have bars on the street-level windows in the office, we can't leave them open when we're not there because if wind blows the slightest thing, it can set off the alarm.