Fuck summer

[wombat]

But see, here's what cruel about summer. You look forward to it all winter and expect to be able to do all this fun stuff. But then, at least where I live, it's so hot and humid that it's totally miserable to go outdoors and do any of the stuff you imagined.

Oh sure, if you're in Southern California it's fun. But come on over and experience one of our days of like 200% humidity and you might understand why it's not quite the same for the New Yorkers etc.

[pmcd9]

Oh sure, if you're in Southern California it's fun. But come on over and experience one of our days of like 200% humidity and you might understand why it's not quite the same for the New Yorkers etc.

Oh give me a break.  You're talking to the Houston Kid here.  Don't try to tell me about heat and humidity.  And I've been in NYC in August and by comparison to Houston it's not bad at all.  I found it quite pleasant in fact.  One particular evening I even regretted that I didn't have a jacket to wear.

[wombat]

I think people who live in the South must really be genetically different. The only possible explanation is that their bodies have evolved to handle heat differently.

[jay-ell]

I don't really have anything to add. I just wanted to go on the record as being firmly in the "Fuck you, Summer, Screw you" camp.

It was so hot outside this afternoon that it took longer for my washing machine to wash a load than it took about half the stuff on the clothesline to dry.

[littlefallsmets]

As I am in a place with Humidity again, I understand this sentiment.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Oh yeah, I got invited to a baseball game last week.  That's definitely a fun summertime event.  If I could afford it I'd do that a lot more often.  

Are there any minor league teams near you?  Cheaper tickets, and you don't have to pay $8 for a beer.  Kind of a different feel but still a blast.

[jaydub]

They don't allow aluminum bats do they?  Nothing ruins a baseball game for me faster than hearing a piiiiingggg.

[JorgeFabregas]

No, minor league teams use wooden bats.

College teams are the highest level that I know of that uses aluminum.

[Asherdan]

College yes, pro no. Which is why I don't head down to Blair Field for some Dirtbags action.

Any of you whiney-##### ever hear of June Gloom? That's when you live in a desert (SoCal, as we've already discussed) that is ocean adjacent. Sun goes down, fog rolls in. Sun comes up, fog burns off. It's like living in a ball of 100% hot-hot-heat humidity half the day and a burning desert the other half.

Listen to me and I'll tell you about the SoCal the tourist books don't give you.

Regardless, I love it. I've been on the equator in July and Edmonton in January and all sorts of places in between and you know what? Whether it's so hot my eyeballs are sweating or so cold the snot freezes in my mustache I'm rocking out.

Because each and every one of us is an insignificant little speck that'll only see so many turns before it's done and the big blue-green marble will keep rolling right along unmoved, uncaring.

[theinevitable]

which reminds me: NorCal in the summer is the best. cool in the morning, warmer in the day... it is like permanent spring/fall. Would wake up early, walk to class in a light jacket, then get out of class to find it all sunny and perfect, with the mountains all around, cute california girls skateboarding... oh man.
oh man.

The amount of time I spend thinking about how much I want to live there is maybe unhealthy.

[Asherdan]

Dude, you coulda drove 40 minutes East on the 205/580 and said hello to the giraffe manure plant in Tracy, 98/98 at nine in the morning and the inversion layer for me.

One time I left Stockton in shorts and a t-shirt (98/98 remember) at 9 AM and picked up the crew on the way to CandleCrotch for a nooner. It was 58 and blowing when we got there at noon and the game went 14 innings before Mitchell rapped one off the right-center wall and then Will the Thrill smoked one out to center to end it. By that time my jacket and pant-leg-less self was fuck*ng blue.

The Bay...only place I know of the homeless die of exposure in July. Loved it.

[pmcd9]

One time I left Stockton in shorts and a t-shirt (98/98 remember) at 9 AM and picked up the crew on the way to CandleCrotch for a nooner. It was 58 and blowing when we got there at noon and the game went 14 innings before Mitchell rapped one off the right-center wall and then Will the Thrill smoked one out to center to end it. By that time my jacket and pant-leg-less self was fuck*ng blue.

The Bay...only place I know of the homeless die of exposure in July. Loved it.

Yeah, I went out west last summer for an artcar thing.  At the afterparty in this parking lot in Seattle it started getting chilly and everyone starts pulling out jackets and blankets and stuff.  Meanwhile I am freezing my ass off in my shorts and short sleeve tshirt.  Everybody was like "don't you have a jacket?"  It's fuck*ng June for fucks sake, I didn't pack a jacket.  It got down into the low 40s.

I got pretty chilled in SF too.  The next day I was in Fresno and it was 105.

[lprkn]

They don't allow aluminum bats do they?  Nothing ruins a baseball game for me faster than hearing a piiiiingggg bink.

[linnea]

I really hate being hot. I am in Denver right now and it's fuck*ng miserable. It is so bright and so hot that my eyes burn when I go outside. I have to run the A/C full blast in the rental car. I don't know if they are classified as panic attacks from the traffic, but the heart palpitations are back and they really fuck*ng suck. My doc gave me benzos for it, which I refuse to take, so I don't even have them here anyway.

One of my friends keeps asking me when I will move back to Denver. The answer is "fuck*ng never". It doesn't even feel like vacation. It feels like a huge string of shitty obligation after shitty obligation, strung together with long 2-hour bouts of panic-inducing traffic in suffocating desert-like heat to get anywhere. I cannot wait to go to San Diego where I will be in a fabulous hotel for a solid week, not have to drive, and will get to walk around downtown where it's warm and not unreasonably hot. Then I will get to go home. Fuck this noise, I'm not even coming back here next year. I will go someplace fuck*ng enjoyable instead.

[lprkn]

I've never been to Denver, but I do remember PBS telling me that their highways suck. And I know it does tend to get pretty hot sometimes in some of those inland areas, no matter how many miles high they are.