and this all just really sucks all of a sudden

morning

nice tea this morning

very good, now I shall have some rusks

it is HOT

like past 35 C hot

cold

hot

37.4 C says the SA weather service

that is the temperature 8 kilometres away at the Cape Town Airport

Warnings: Extremely uncomfortable, heatwave

Today's warmest towns:

Clanwilliam: 45°C (Where waterbase is)

the ice on the windows and the frost my breath makes even inside say well below zero

this is January. it is as cold and dead as....

 

um yeah woke up the normal way again

this is January. it is as cold and dead as....

 

um yeah woke up the normal way again

 

expectedly

expectedly but ....

 

yeah. expectedly. hot water will help. maybe.

I just throw everything out. it saves the recycling truck some gas and a trip down my road ans saves the people who sort this stuff a little meaningless work and saves the hot water and effort and waste of time the process requires.

and now there is hot water for me but I will be colder before I am warmer and that is a rough hurdle this morning

and now there is hot water for me but I will be colder before I am warmer and that is a rough hurdle this morning

 

blankets

the blankets under the hot water was a no go.

 

naked under hot water was brutal with the lack of water pressure and the icy cold house.

 

but it's over now.

 

and there is consciousness if not any comfort.

 

and eventually i may force myself out the door to the store... assuming the car starts... grab some groceries and run back in with them as fast as i can... having made the house two door openings colder in the process.

 

have i mentioned it's like really frakking cold this morning?