HEAT WAVE THURSDAY
Thursday, August 24th, 2023 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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91F and noticeably drier this morning!.. I think yesterday may have been the worst of this heat wave.
Yesterday there was condensation on the outside of the windows all day and night, and the breezes felt like hot steam rolling over you.
Today, no condensation, and the breezes actually cool you down a bit.
My app says the high will be 96F, but if you ask Alexa, she's been saying to expect a high of 103F since last night.
So, it's unclear exactly how hot it will get today, but my gut says it won't beat the 97F of yesterday, and the humidity's gonna be much lower.
So it looks as though conditions will be tolerable for this first day of classes at Cloud Elementary School.
Last year, I missed out on the first day of classes at Grape, because of that glitch GeoStaff was having with their onboarding form... that took weeks to resolve.
So, this will be kind of a special day... especially if I do go on to stay at Cloud the entire school year.
I was playing Mahjong solitaire yesterday, and thinking about how in that game there can be points at which it looks like you're all out of moves, and there's no way you'll prevail... but then you find the one matching pair you have left, and that turns out to be the key to moving ahead and completing the puzzle.
And in my mind, it's very similar to the situation I'm in financially, and with the legacy mortgage, and soforth.
I was feeling, yesterday, that maybe I don't have a lot of moves left, and things could come crashing down.
But then I remembered that this right now... getting through this heat wave, is actually the move.
I got the lawyer to slow things down with BMO, and I have that offer from Discover for a home equity loan... but I don't want to apply for it until I've been with GeoStaff for a full year, and my two most recent paystubs are full time... both of which conditions will be true on September 15th.
This heat wave was a threat to that, because heat is my kryptonite.
I went back to part time for the summer because I knew I'd lose my shit and quit, if I was trapped in a hot building for 8 hours a day.
But that nightmare scenario came true this week anyway.
Thankfully, it was so hot, that it triggered an, Excessive Heat Advisory, which forced the school district to do the unthinkable and leave the AC on overnight.
And that's why I'm still there.
Well... that and the fact that Rosa did quit!
It's been wonderful, the past two weeks, when the last teacher drives away... knowing I have the building to myself the rest of the night!
I can go take a break in the shop, sitting in front of the fan whenever I feel like it, or go out to my car and smoke... without having to worry about some unpredictable B, rearing up out of nowhere, to judge me, and possibly rat me out.
Hopefully her replacement will stick closer to the prescribed hours of 3PM to 7PM, but it could be a while before they even find anybody.
The past few weeks, Jeremy's just been staying a couple hours later to cover her area... which wasn't getting much use.
Not sure what they'll do now that school is in session.
They may send over different randos every night, or find a temp to fill in for a while.
Doesn't matter.
The point here, is that making it to the 1-year mark is the move right now.
And I'm thinking, the hardest part of that move will have been making it through this week.
In other news, as I mentioned last night, the heat rendered my security cameras unresponsive, so they're unplugged, and will stay unplugged until the weekend.
The reapeater did fine this week, but it's off too, because it's only purpose is to talk to the cameras.
Meanwhile, the plywood for HD2.0 has just been sitting out there on the saw horses all week... bowed side up... slowly flattening out.
The porch fan has been off since Tuesday, so, I doubt it dried out much more, with all the humidity, but... that fan will turn back on this weekend too... as I get to patching the cracks and pits with epoxy.
Natalie, out back, hasn't been watered at all this week. It was supposed to rain, but that never happened.
She looks fine, and I think maybe it would've been a bad idea anyway to water her when it's so humid? I dunno.
So I'll have to check up on her this weekend and water her if necessary.
And it'll be cool enough on Saturday & Sunday that I can probably mow, as well.
Well, it did hit 98F for about 30 minutes there, but that was it. No triple digits, thank God!
The first day back to the full routine went well!
It was the first time I've done the whole sha-bang since May.
But the break seems to have done me some good, because I got everything done a little faster, and in only 13,000 steps, instead of 14,000.
Also my feet held up fine!
I was done with everything by 10:30PM, so I had an hour to just chill.
But then at 11PM a woman showed up to do the four hour area.
It was basically like I was handing off to third shift!
I showed her where her area, and her cart were at, and... by the time she got started, it was 11:15. So I chilled in the shop for ten minutes, and clocked out.
But Jeremy had already stayed until 5PM to hit that area.
So... he didn't know anybody was coming. And nobody gave me a heads up about it.
So... I think that four hour area's turning into an overtime hotspot.
Anybody who feels like getting a couple extra hours just... shows up at Cloud to get that area, whether it needs cleaning or not.
And I'm fine with that, because random people who are just showing up for overtime don't care what I'm doing!
They're here today, gone tomorrow.
Well, at any rate. This day I've been dreading went fine!
Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 91.
Not great... but better than 98 and 97.
And it'll also be a Friday.
And it's down to 79F on Saturday, 75F on Sunday... and 70s all next week!.. with lows in the 50s!
In other news, I spent today thinking about how to wire up my soviet rotary phone mike.
Those leads on the left and right are positive, and the middle bump is negative.
So with a two conducter wire, one conductor can terminate in a spade clip that goes on to either the right or left lead (or split and go to both).
But the other conductor... I was thinking, I would solder directly to the central bump... until it struck me that heating that up might damage this microphone!
So after thinking about it, and rooting around on Amazon, I've come up with a plan to solder a conical compression spring to my wire... and then seat the spring over that bump.
A length of plastic, securing strap, will go over that wire and spring, to hold it close to the lead... and the strap will be held around the outer, plastic lead base with a hose clamp!
And then I'm gonna use a rubber cap, the diameter of the mike, to cover the whole back.
And there will be a hole drilled in that for the wire to come out... as well as a little strain relief boot, right there at the cap.
It should all work very nicely, with sound connections, and all the wires protected, without affecting the acoustic quality of the microphone.
And if you're having trouble picturing that... well, you'll see soon enough.
I just have to take a few measurements, and then I can order all the stuff.
Okay, that's my Thursday!
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