To put things in perspective....

Every year about this time, the greater Seattle area has days where the heat is over 90 and sometimes over 100.  In my youth, for 7 years straight, I was working a showduring those days in a very lovely, but un-airconditioned, theater built in 1925.  Since we were a fairly small tech group, I'd usually get commandeered to run one of the follow spots. Running a follow spot, in the balcony of an un-airconditioned auditorium, when the outdorr temperature is over 90, is a special sort of hell.  I used to walk into a cold shower fully dressed before going to the theater, and slip out and pour water over myself every time I could get a chance.  Back in those days (gods, I sound like a real old fart, dont' I) hardly anyone had air conditioning, and we sure didn't have it in our cars (except for my dad's Cadilac).

So how did we survive?  Judicious use of fans and water.  Oh, and not doing anything outdoors during the hot part of the day unless it involved being in water.  If there wasn't a pool to get into then the sprinkler or the local lake works.

Oh, and think of my sweetie.....he's working wearing three layers of a uniform made of polyester, and for the most part either standing on a gangway or an unairconditioned guard shack.  And of course, this week he's been working days.

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Does anyone on my Flist who went to Florence last year have a good picture of the rapier doublet at the Stibbert Museum?"  My camera died before I got there and someone whom I don't remember said that they'd give me a copy of their pictures.  That's what I get for not keeping a journal during the trip.