The place is closed up like Fort Knox—all the blinds are down and drapes are drawn to keep the inside shady and as cool as possible naturally and ease the load on the AC units. The only other large appliance allowed to run during the day is the refrigerator—anything else has to wait until well after sundown and preferably when the temps drop back into the 80s. We’re doing our best to reduce the load as much as possible on Anita Gigawatt, dontchaknow.

And for some reason Jeremy had decided to become my shadow today and is following me everywhere meowing. He’s had food, water, treats, pettings, and playtime so I dunno, maybe the air quality is bothering him, too. Granted, it’s not nearly as bad here as it’s been farther north and east, but it ain’t great either and my sinuses have not been happy.

Wait, do cats have sinuses? Okay, according to Google they do, so maybe his are aching as well. I’d offer to squirt some saline up there but I suspect he wouldn’t be happy about it.

And to top things off our internet went out around 5 PM and didn’t come back until 9 PM or so, which meant that the Brit had to play catch-up late this evening on the work he missed (no fun since he has an early start time tomorrow morning). On the plus side I cranked out 3K today since I didn’t have any distractions, so yay?