Update: Yup, It’s Hot

It’s currently 93 degrees here (Fahrenheit), but thanks to the humidity the heat index means it feels like 106 (41 Celsius), or so the weather report in my phone tells me, the one that also tells me we have an extreme heat warning through eight PM. I went out in this stuff because I checked the mail, and, yup, it’s really damn hot, the sort of hot that makes you basically want to fall down into a lump. I took the dog out so she could do her business; she took three steps into the yard and went whump into the grass. Two of the four cats have expressed interest in being outside at the moment. I told them no. It’s been hot enough that I did something I haven’t had to do for a couple of years: Go to the basement and retrieve the portable AC unit that I used to bring into my office in the summer. I haven’t had to do that the last couple of years because we got new windows and a new HVAC, and between the two of those the house generally does a better job of keeping an even temperature, even…