Heat Wave

Looks like the next week and a half will be one of those times we wish we had A/C in coastal California. It was warm last night (temperature has been below seventy every morning when we get up, but it was 73 this morning). Can’t really justify the expense and electricity of central air, but maybe we’ll finally be motivated to get a window or portable unit for the bedroom.

[Noon update]

People are talking about split units in comments. No way we’d spend that kind of money, particularly when we have no use for a heat pump. We just need something to keep the bedroom cool to sleep at night.

[Saturday-morning update]

Well, so far, so good. It never got below 74 in the house, but we slept well. If it gets no worse than that, we’ll be OK. The worst thing about Santa Anas is that when the wind comes from the east, we can hear the sound of the 405 freeway, which is about a mile away. Otherwise, the neighborhood is quiet, because despite being half a block from a major thoroughfare to the west, the sound is blocked by a dune that our place is at the bottom of.

College As A Commodity

We are looking at the end stages. The scam can’t end soon enough.

People are noting in the restaurant post that (ignoring the Democrats’ ongoing war against small businesses), the institutions hit hardest by the pandemic are dominated by the left. There is no small irony in that.

[Update a while later]

Steven Hayward: “Where’s the bad news here?”

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!