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Is My Air Conditioner Evil; or Blessed Grace?
Topic Started: Aug 5 2006, 09:00 AM (130 Views)
Matt G.
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Yesterday's column by Chicago Sun-Times' religion columnist Cathleen Falsani.
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Optimistic
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HOLY CARP!!!
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While I'm not exactly a tree-hugger, I am very fond of trees. And, also, ozone.

The thing is ... I love air conditioning.

And I hate, haaaaaaaaaaaate being hot.

My people (the fair-skinned Irish and blond Italians who carried my DNA to this land of promise not quite a century ago) were not made for the kind of heat we've been having with increasing and alarming frequency.

I am not a good person when I'm hot. It's as if my evil twin Esmerelda takes over, menacing all those unfortunate enough to cross her overheated, swollen, sweaty path. Hot me is not loving, kind and patient. She's surly, sour and hard to live with.


That is me. Except I don't get so much surly as I do whiney.

The good thing I can say about this weather, though: after a string of days over 100F, I actually found myself walking out into yesterday's 90F sun and thinking "Hey, it's kind of cool today."
PHOTOS

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.
- Mark Twain


We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot
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DivaDeb
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I heard a doctor on the news the other day explaining that people who live in hot climates are capable of sweating up to 3 liters an hour, whereas people in cooler areas only sweat 1 liter an hour. So, they're ill prepared to handle really hot weather.

It made me wonder where we in Kansas fit into the picture. In summer we get temps like Houston's and our winters are often as cold as Minnesota.
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