Its so hot and humid that...

I was looking fowards to today too.. was supposed to spend 8 hours at the borgata in air conditioned splender and then 4 more at Harrahs... sadly, the show tonight at the borgata got cancelled... so no work for me.. = no air conditioning for me

Im just gonna leave this here...

that when I turned the key to the "on" position in the subaru (which had not been started in days), the electric cooling fan kicked on.

I ordinarily love the heat.. but this has been testing me. The house I rent has a nasty old airconditioner that somebody punched through the wall in the bedroom.. it barely puts out anything cold, so I leave it covered.

Last night at 2am it was still 96 degrees and I was sweating in bed rather than sleeping. So, for the first time in 5 years, I turned on this monster. It made a hell of a racket, but it put out just enough cool air that by 4am I was chilly enough to need a sheet, and by 7am when I got up.. the windows were misted over.

to me that sounds like it works pretty well then.

I fired up the Spitfire today, and the "ignition" idiot light came on. And it hasn't been that hot today in CT., but the first time I've fired the Spitfire in a month. and the idiot light has NEVER done that before, WTF... and it's up for sale...I don't need this, and the humidity is worse than yesterday at this time.

...that my '79 Spitfire is now self-aware and hates me. Good thing I didn't drive it. ....

I'm just angry. I'm one of those that have always loved the heat, but the stuff I'm on for blood pressure control (beta blocker) seems to have robbed me of my tolerance for it. Tried going to a model rocket meet today (97 in Hochston GA today, one of the guys at the field said), got really lightheaded from the walks to retrieve my rockets. Had to sit down between flights for so long that I only flew 4 times in three stinking hours. Didn't even fly my D powered stuff because I was afraid of how long the walk would be. I think I'm gonna have to skip the one in August. Grr.

To friedgreen corrado: You might want to call your MD and ask, if, for that one day, or days leading up to the next meet, you can cut your medication in half. Might help. But, talk to him first!! From what you described, it sounds like you had heat stroke. Have you felt like this before the heat?

In reply to triumph5:

T5, the way it's been explained to me was that the beta blockers act like a "governor" on a car. It restricts the heart to a single operating range (as far as pressure goes), and when the high temps hit, it can't really pump up to get the blood circulating fast enough to dissipate the body heat. The heart rate increases like it should, but the drugs reduce the pressure, so the blood speed never really increases.

I didn't get a muscle cramp or a headache, and the sweat glands never went dry (or plugged! Not a spot of heat rash on me) I don't think it was heat stroke, but was definitely a flirtation with heat exhaustion. I was properly hydrated all day, but had to pretty much pour half the ice in the cooler over myself to drive home (no AC in this car).

EDIT: Just had a thought..I've been skipping a lot of meals lately, perhaps I wasn't as hydrated as well as I thought I was. Isn't a lot of hydration actually in the food we eat?

EDIT 2: Oh, yeah..almost forgot. Felt like this once earlier this year, I was mowing the yard in 90deg heat. I pay the kid next door to mow the place for me now. Does that mean I've exchanged my Man Card for my Old Man Card?

Well you might want to show a copy of what you wrote to your MD. Stroke was too strong, but came to mind, sounded more like exhaustion.

Now, let's get this straight: Old Man Cards are only issued when you're in the pine box!

Chris Karamasini (sp?) is still running top fuel, and he's 82. Not too successful, but he DID make it to second round qualifications recently. And he doesn't have an Old Man Card.

I took my tools outside to change the oil on the wifemobile, and my tools developed condensation, making them slippery and unusable.

Personally, when people come in and say "whew, it's hot out there!" I wanna say "whew, it's july!"

^ condensation.... that's why you need one of these

4cylndrfury wrote: Im just gonna leave this here...

Did it melt?

Folks at the Today Show fried an egg and cooked a pizza on the streets of NYC.

Hotter'n a whore's ass on pay day.