summer is a comin' in.. and I'm a goin' out.

[lagilman]

Lunch today is a large glass of iced coffee and a chunk of (frozen) lemon pound cake, plus whole wheat chips and hummus.

When deadlines meet summer heat. Yah.

*melts*

Basically I am staying in a shaded office with the fans on "cool" and the cats banned from my lap [not that they're interested -- they're spread like melted fur over the coffee table). How do you keep cool when you're working?

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[kriz1818.livejournal.com]

What is this "cool" whereof you speak?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, for the opportunity to need it... *reaches for extra knitwear*

[lagilman]

we can make a partial trade, and everyone's comfortable... (BTW, I feel your pain. Just got a quote on renovating the bathroom. Ouch.)

[jperceval.livejournal.com]

We have central a/c, but I have a curse: even IN a/c, something in my body chemistry just *knows* it's hot outside and reacts accordingly. Especially when PMSing. I'm utterly miserable at my office today. I'm hoping for marginal improvement by telecommuting the rest of the week, but I'm not overly optimistic.

[girasole.livejournal.com]

I use the air conditioner. My home office is a separate room, I always teach eight weeks of summer school (YA lit online in eight weeks instead of 15), I have to be comfortable at the computer.

I am warm most of the time, and miserable in humidity, so I have to make it work. It is not always happy on the sinuses, and it isn't as quiet as I would like, but it works.

[lagilman]

I can use my a/c for short busts, to cool down the space, but leaving it on overnight = me getting sick. No idea why but it's consistent.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Check the coils and the drip pan for mold and mildew accumulation, very common especially if the unit it sealed up for the winter and remains in the window (mines an inside based unit with just a window vent, so the problem is lesser, but when I had a window unit I had that issue every year.)

[lagilman]

Oh, this happens with every a/c -- at home, in hotels... even my brand-new wall unit.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Odd. Might be a reaction to the ozone most of them produce, other than that or a sudden temperature change I can't think of what else they might put out.

[liuseth.livejournal.com]

Could be because the A/C dries out your mucus membranes, thus making them more susceptible to colds? I have to take a humidifier with me to hotels else I get a cold without fail.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

You could like J. He is especially sensitive to drafts. Even if he opens a window to get the air stirring, he catches a cold.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Central AC in the house with a booster unit in my office so I don't have to turn the downstairs into a meat locker to keep it cool up here. No other realistic option, my office is on the top floor, gets full afternoon sun and has all the network hardware plus running 3-5 PCs at any given time. Until I got the booster unit 2 summers ago it would routinely hit 90 in here even with downstairs set to 72.

[lagilman]

I miss central air. It's probably the only thing about the house (other than room to put a Bowflex) that I do miss.

[jslinder.livejournal.com]

Assuming it is all one floor, with a really big window unit and creative use of flexible dryer venting you could simulate it :)

[michael-b-lee.livejournal.com]

As it happens, the coffee shop where I do most of my work also sells ice cream. So I park myself at the table next to it and life is good - at least until I head back outside, when the transition from cold to hot is downright breathtaking.

And it's only 89 outside. It hasn't truly gotten *hot* yet. :(