Fuck summer

[fanta]

the downtown area in Denver where they have the MOMA is quite impressive.  I guess it was custom designed for tourists.  The streets are very wide, with few cars.  You really feel comfortable there.  The noise and crowding from excessive traffic and cars parked all over really is detrimental to the experience of many cities.  You maybe don't realize how detrimental cars are to the city experience, until you see an area like this downtown area in Denver, and you realize what a difference a reduction in automobile traffic can make. 

Maybe I just got lucky and visited on a day when there wasn't a lot of traffic, but either way, the streets were wide and you really felt comfortable there.  I guess it was an old warehouse district that had been converted into a downtown area.  It was a mixture I guess of residential lofts and tourist attractions and businesses. 

It seemed like a nicer experience than say, New York or Chicago, but then again, if I had the choice, I wouldn't live in any city I guess.

[schnitzelbank]

Despite a degree of paleness that makes summer an endless loop of slathering on goop to ward off the burning death orb's cancer rays, the invasion of tourists, and the bugs, I am pro-summer. Lack of sunlight bums me out something fierce.

Summer in New York, however? Fuck. that. noise.
The only difference between neighborhoods is the price of the alcohol that gets turned into vomit and urine; and the dog food into piles of poo on the sidewalk. I'll take DC's stinky gingko trees over NY sidewalks any day. 

[robot_god]

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Weird, sb.  This is the first post of yours I've seen, guess I've just missed all the threads you've posted in.

Anyway, now that I'm getting into it's groove, I'm starting to enjoy this summer.  But what I said still stands.  NY is summer-awful.  And I'm proud of the anti-summer movement my rambling spawned.

I guess it's just because I played handball a few times and am looking foward to having a hot-handball summer.  Plus all my great superb-quality counterfeit jerseys came in the mail, so that is a summer good.  Then there is the Woodstock trip again comin up.

I'm gonna post a picture on facebook and tag everyone I've ever played handball with or talked about it with and be all like inspiring heads to play.  Hell, I'm about to make a thread to discuss your handball histories.

[wombat]

Another day of 100 degrees, I say indeed fuck this.

[CortJstr]

I wonder what that grease spill on U St is going to smell like once it hits 100 degrees outside...

[Asherdan]

I want my summer back, goddamit. Mexico sent us the tails of a hurricane and yesterday it rained all day and today it is cold and cloudy.

[wombat]

Ash, PLEASE come and get ours. You are welcome to it.

I am beginning to worry that this is one of those years that I am going to spend the whole summer with a sick headache.

[Arachno-capitalist]

The stress on the power grid is hitting red levels here in the north east. According to an interview with the local power company CEO, the only reason it hasn't popped into blackout is because the industrial recession has decreased energy demand.
Was this mentioned in the 'daily things that piss me off thread': People who hate A/C and complain that it is making things comfortable for everyone else.

[wombat]

I actually do hate AC, I feel it will be soon enough to be refrigerated when I am dead. But sometimes it is clearly the lesser of two evils.

[side_show]

Look kids, I <3 Summer.

For work on Monday I was standing outside a homeless shelter that smelled of pee with a bunch of intoxicated people, in the direct sun, helping a young couple move out of the shelter and into their home (yay!).  I was wearing a sundress and it was just so nice to feel the warmth on my skin.  I suppose only getting 3 months of warmth helps one appreciate it.  It was 86F, which is not so bad , but I was hauling boxes.  Also I like to sweat.  Also I have an air conditioned home, workplace and vehicle (all of which I prefer not to use too much), so the time spent in the hot is minimal and usually for enjoyment.  

I do remember the days in our disgusting rental unit, trying to sleep in the hot humidity, and it was just gross.  I remember getting furious when my husband would try to even sort of touch me.  Hot sticky skin on skin is so not my thing.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I'll take DC's stinky gingko trees over NY sidewalks any day. 

Then I guess you didn't go to wash sq park, which is perpetually wreaking of ginkgo.

[Asherdan]

Ash, PLEASE come and get ours. You are welcome to it.

I took the hoss for a ride before work so he and I stood on a hilltop and wished this for you.

At least I did. I think he just wished I'd let him scoot over a foot so he could nail down some of the tasty vegetation.

BTW, still cloudy and misting.

[Mr Trout]

I've been holed up in my apartment working on projects for the past few days, but I rode my bike around the city today to run some errands and goddamn is it tough to stay hydrated. I must have gone through close to a gallon of water in a couple hours and I swear it all immediately came right back out my pores.

Not complaining though. I love the heat! Not when it is radiating off the cars at stoplights though. That is a bit much.

[Asherdan]

You know it's a hot ass day when you take five gallons of water out to the jobsite with you, drink it all and only take one dead yellow piss at the end of the day. After days like that throwing a lawn chair in the river and sitting in it up to your chest for an hour is a good thing made better.

I've gotten some grossed out looks when out in the parks 'cause I'll pull up to a water trough, jump down and stick my head in next to the hosss. ProTip: all the gross shit floats on top, get your head down in there and you're drinking clear stuff you don't have to strain through your teeth. hoss slobber floats. Also, if you don't buy sissy ass hats you can shove that down in the water and plop a cool one on your head.

If you've got a hose, any yard is a holiday on a hot day.

[wombat]

Should I buy a kiddie wading pool and lie in the backyard in it? Or should I just stay indoors and turn down the AC till it feels like a morgue?