I just wrote 20 pages worth of bullshit that is basically a non sequitur…satirical allegory about everything…its basically one big giant internet shitpost…
so far in writing this story it has been like self induced therapy…
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I keep mine safe in google drive so the NSA can read my drunken ramblings when they’re bored
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So the NSA knows my story Is about dildolaserswords…great, I am not embarassed…
Tbh it’s a work in progress
“Get this, everybody installs their own spycams in their house and puts all of their personal information online. We don’t even have to bug them anymore!”
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I don’t know where to find it our who said it but there has been these great quote going around for a few years to the effect of: we all knew that “1984” would come true, what know one ever suspected is that we would turn the cameras on ourselves.
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Great quote haha. Love that one.
I saw a MAGA-style hat a while back that said “Make 1984 Fiction Again”.
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Since Thursday, there’s been a heatwave over Los Angeles. Because it wasn’t working, I asked maintenance to check my air con. Turns out it has been leaking for a while. Of course the building maintenance is out of stock/no coolant and will get some again sometimes next week.
It’s 93 degrees outside right now (4 pm), real feel 97 degrees and 86 degrees in my apartment. Today is the day wifey had decided to do a stew/roast thing that needs to stay in the oven for 4 hours. I am writing this only wearing my boxers and still sweating like a pig as soon as I try to move around too much.
From my balcony, I see the apartment complex pool that we’re not allowed to use because COVID-19, etc.
Yay!
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oh god I am sorry for you : ( sending cool vibes man …that’s worst. extra fucked about the pool : ( : ( : (
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Thanks, man! Have to say, it’s when you lose some basic shit you take for granted (air conditioning!!!) that you realize you’re living a privileged life.
On the bright side, plenty of good Belgian beer in the fridge. There will be much drinking soon!
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I think a lot of us in the West could do with a little more loss of what we see as basic comfort and a lot more appreciation for what we have…was kind of hoping that might be a silver lining of the pandemic : ) Enjoy that beer! Having margaritas here even though its only like 60 degrees lol
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You’re absolutely right. Let’s hope some good comes out of it.
And margaritas are a good idea anywhere anytime! Cheers, Dude!
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When I used to live in Denver, I moved down there in the spring before we had a particularly hot summer. The apartment was a basement unit, which they had thought would stay cool. The summer hit, and it was well into the 90’s, but we had no AC whatsoever, and barely had windows (just those a few of those small tiny ones in basement units). The apartment got SOOOO hot. I was making trips to the gas station everyday getting huge drinks, and would be sitting at my desk just covered in sweat. The weird thing was, it was actually hotter inside the apartment than it was outside, like, you could “cool off” going outside lol that sucks tho, a pool just staring you in the face but can’t be opened.
Oh that’s a great idea man…and I know kitchens are stupid hot from friends…I wouldn’t wish that hell on anyone man.
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I grew up working in kitchens, did the frozen towel myself on many occasion. Also, blowing your weed smoke through a wet hand towel in the walk-in = instant air filter; no one the wiser.
Nothing like an open flame broiler with no ventilation for hours on end. Add to that the cuts and burns and hangover and trying not to be a dork in front of the pretty waitstaff - yeah, it’s a lot of work, but it can be satisfying and feels like an honest paycheck at the end of the day.
Also, fuck lack of AC. As someone that lives in the south, I’ll sell a fucking kidney before I go a summer (or spring, or fall) without some cool air on my face.
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Holy fuck a whole summer of that?? That must have been brutal… And you’re right, it’s the weirdest thing when it feels warmer inside than outside. For some reason the heat just stays in and since it’s an apartment, chances of having windows on more than one side of the place are usually slim/make it impossible to have air flow. I opened my door today and the hall that usually feels really warm brought in a cool breeze. I would leave it open but I have 2 cats…
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You’re absolutely right. For some reason, when your (or someone else’s) body is over-heating, cooling the neck tricks the mind into feeling you are not as warm. It is the best way to cool off.
I think all you guys should spend some time in the desert in 130 degree temp with no air conditioning, or maybe spend some time in Japan with no air conditioning and no heater and no car.
Just sayin’… 
I’m still doin good, btw.
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I forgot you lived in moab. Fuckin’ place can get GNARLY down there. I’m taken some overconfident hiking trips around Canyonlands and nearly died. IDK how people do it.
I feel you man. Live in Downey (about halfway between LA and OC) and it’s such a first world problem, but we put new windows in a few months ago and haven’t gotten a new A/C yet, so we’re in the same boat. I was looking at A/Cs yesterday on Amazon desperately wishing to just pull the trigger. But I gotta figure out how to mount these things in sliding vinyl windows, which is apparently not an intended use-case for window A/C’s out there. IDK, no one can seem to tell me how to do it without drilling into my clean new vinyl. I really want to figure this out, because I work from home now, and my home office is one of the hottest rooms in the house. Doing accounting shirtless is pretty neat, but every time I have a video conference it sucks having to grab a shirt and suffer. Again, I know, very thankful to still have a job, that I don’t have to put myself or my family at risk to get paid, etc. But it’s really HAWT in my office.
Why would anyone want to live in the desert though? I mean, that’s asking for it.
When I was in Europe, air conditioning wasn’t a thing, so I was more used to summer heat then…
Amongst other places, I’ve lived in Chicago and suffered 2 of the worst winters on record during my 4½ year stay (I’m lucky like that). The one where people literally abandoned their cars on the highway because the snow made it impossible for traffic to move, and walked home, I was there.
The apartment I lived in was so cold I slept almost fully clothed, with a beanie on my head. We condemned the windows with plastic for 4 months, to try and keep some warmth inside… Then I would go to work and they’d advise you not to stay outside for more than 10 minutes or you’d be at risk of freezing to death. It was colder than Siberia (no kidding). And if you know Chicago, you know the wind coming from the lake will slice you in half. I’ve seen plates of ice on the Chicago river, every day, crossing a bridge, walking on my way to work at the Merchandise Mart. I was half expecting to see a polar bear on one of those ice plates… Fun times…
Looks like I went from one extreme to the other, somehow.
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