Today was absolutely horrible, weather wise. It was unbelievably HOT. I needed to head downtown to do some shopping for my vacation, but with sweltering temperatures in the high eighties (that’s around 32 degrees Celsius) there was no way I would do that in the afternoon. One of the things I would have to do was get myself good mountain shoes and nice thick warm cozy walking socks. Thinking about it made me melt already, therefore I had a great idea: stay inside, wait until after supper and THEN go downtown for the stuff. It would have cooled down then.

At least, I thought it would. I saw some thermometers downtown indicating it was still 32C at 7pm. That could not be, so they must be broken, right? At least I got my shoes and a Zoom H2 to record sound seeing and use it as an USB microphone to work with the MacBook. Hopefully I can get parts of the Confirmation Mass recorded too, to use for my podcast.

Since I was sweating bullets, I decided to cool down at the Kosterij’s terrace at the foot of the Martini Tower. I had a Hoegaarden and was surprised to see it still was 30C after 8pm. That’s not normal and I dreaded the night already, knowing that my apartment’s room temperature equaled the outdoor temperature. Boy, was I glad I had a fan!

After procrastinating a bit, I got home around 9pm. At 11pm it was still 28C, I turned on my fan and tried to sleep. The only thing my fan did was blowing lukewarm air towards me. I didn’t sleep at all, so here I am, blogging in the middle of the night while watching Dr. Paul and Fr. Seraphim doing a live ustream of the newest SaintCast episode.

Yes Dr. Paul, I know I should be in bed now, but it’s just too hot too sleep, and in the chat room I also see Father Roderick popping up. I guess it’s hot in Amersfoort too. On Plurk I see Anastasis complaining too. So things aren’t good in Germany too.

Well, let I try giving the sleeping project another chance, it’s starting to lighten up again outside. Time for bed.

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