Weather in fragments...

First it was hot, for days, the pain was immense, the thought processes slow. I contemplated air conditioning... again.

Day 1 was spent watching Hornblower in the lounge with Ivy and Obake.

This is a comment made on an American friends journal.

"oh cold. i fantasise about cold. i have no idea what the temperature was here today but the three of us were sitting in the loungeroom watching rome all day and not being able to put coherent sentences together despite the fans and profusion of cold drinks. it didn't cool down again for two or three hours after dark and i'm pretty sure its mostly that i'm sitting under the fan that makes it slightly livable again... and we've got three or four more months of this

oh cold. i fantasise about cold.
;)"

Day 2 I embraced the idea of airconditioning and in the afternoon snuck into town and the bottom of the Myer centre, me and Gaius (my laptop), and the dozens of other people sitting in the food court reading and passing out on tables. It wasn't even super cool but wow compared to outside. I'm pretty sure that the food court at the bottom of DJ's is even cooler (strategises for next time).

Day 4 of the heatwave was today (I'd even lost day 3 from lack of movement yesterday) and the cat tried to escape the house again. He sneaks out while I'm asleep, or while everyone else is on their way to work, and then hides in the cold. He's supposed to be an indoors cat: Nia7 has so decreed.

But with today came relief.

Here's my IM shared with obake as the day progressed.

Session Start (scribewraith@yahoo.com:O_bake): Thu Dec 08 12:11:39 2005
O_bake: Hiya! How goes it?
scribewraith@yahoo.com: hey!
scribewraith@yahoo.com: i'm awake and have a runaway kitten that i've tracked down and brought back in
O_bake: ^^;
scribewraith@yahoo.com: so what's your plan for today (haven't looked at beta yet cause i've probably been awake about 20 min
O_bake: ^^;
O_bake: Plan today is to clean house--we've almst accomplished that already; just some stuff needs picking up off the kitchen floor and sweeping/washing floors to do. But we're taking a break from that because it's getting too hot, so I'm downloading stuff for Sims and trying to think of some more dolls to make.
O_bake: I probably should be working on icons/fic instead, but eh.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: omg you're cleaning in the heat during the day - that stuff waits till it cools down
O_bake: *Grins*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: ok hadn't finished reading your message
O_bake: That's why we're taking a break now.
O_bake: *Snorfle*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: nah its holidays you should indulge your whatevers
O_bake: ^^
scribewraith@yahoo.com: i went cleaning: gah...
O_bake: ^^


O_bake: ...okay, wtf? My cursor's really weird today.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: has it gone bright blue? or is it just slow cause of the heat?
O_bake: No, it's picking up windows I didn't click on and dragging them all over the screen. O.o;; It always has a habit of travelling across the screen by itself, but not this.
O_bake: The computer is slow because of the heat. Well, and because I have a heap of stuff open. >>; But ordinarily it would run fine with this much.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: yeah i know what you mean


O_bake: *twitchtwitch* Computer is so slow at the moment.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: hai
scribewraith@yahoo.com: i'm sitting with the fan pointing at me and gaius


scribewraith@yahoo.com: hey i'm leaving the house tomorrow - do you want to come out into the air con somewhere - i need to find somewhere that colour prints and then i'm going to send off one/some/cards to foreign places ;)
O_bake: *nods* I have to do vege shopping at some point, but yeah.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: grin
scribewraith@yahoo.com: you'd have to be out anyway...
scribewraith@yahoo.com: i meant come out tomorrow, yes?


scribewraith@yahoo.com: yum its windier over here
O_bake: Yeah.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: gonna quickly get some liquid brb
O_bake: Okay.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: and the temp has dropped a little
scribewraith@yahoo.com: checking from front verandah ;)
O_bake: ^^
scribewraith@yahoo.com: yup reckoning them thar looks like rain clouds up over that thar city
scribewraith@yahoo.com: *closes some windows*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: *and moves cat up to the cooler part of the house*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: its so going to rain! its so going to rain!
O_bake: I am currently idle.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: its dropped more temp degrees and stuff
O_bake: *Grins*
O_bake: It's just kind of gone dark and still here--I'm hoping that's a prelude to rain bhut it hasn't actually cooled down much.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: it is a prelude - i can see the clouds down your way


scribewraith@yahoo.com: i sat on the stairs with the cat trying to get us both to cool down - hope he hasnt decided to escape again... shouldn't be able to get out
scribewraith@yahoo.com: very cool
O_bake: ^^


scribewraith@yahoo.com: come on rain!!!!
O_bake: ^^ *seconds your motion*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: ;)
scribewraith@yahoo.com: so we're done?
O_bake: Yep. ^^
scribewraith@yahoo.com: i really really appreciate the quickness of this beta - next time i won't leave it till the last minute (next time it won't be so ruddy hot that i can't concentrate for most of the time either)
scribewraith@yahoo.com: and i owe you a beta!
scribewraith@yahoo.com: and an icecream
O_bake: ^^


scribewraith@yahoo.com: have you guys got rain yet?
O_bake: Nope. It's getting darker (might just be the sun going down) and we just got a whiff of a cooler breeze coming through, no actual water dropping from the sky yet.
scribewraith@yahoo.com: and i are discussing that if we were in lismore it'd be raining.
O_bake: >>;
O_bake: *wants to move to Lismore suddenly, for some reason*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: we're talking melbourned
O_bake: *Nods*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: you know two years and i've done my horrors and then nothing says i have to do my postgrad up here...
O_bake: *Grins*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: k
scribewraith@yahoo.com: solstice comin up but thinking about it after the rain
O_bake: *Nods*
O_bake: Aha! A flash of lightning!
scribewraith@yahoo.com: ooh ooh!
O_bake: ^^
O_bake: ...and now there's a little thunder about...
scribewraith@yahoo.com: and its darker over our way too
O_bake: *Nods*
scribewraith@yahoo.com: the cloauds are definitely grey and we've got an hour and a half at least until sunset
scribewraith@yahoo.com: 's on his way home - it's probably waiting for him...
O_bake: ^^
O_bake: Yeah, they're *very* dark clouds to have come up so quickly, aren't there.
O_bake: *they
O_bake: More lightning.
O_bake: I'm going to close the window near my computer, but I'll leave my door open for now.
O_bake: Winds's picking up suddenly.
O_bake: We have rain and gale!
*** You have been disconnected. Thu Dec 08 17:39:27 2005.

The storm itself was pretty spectacular, you couldn't see the city or the tv towers on the top of Mt Cootha from our back verandah. The sky went from green to grey and we've been told there was hail.

I stood out in the rain, arms out, getting saturated for the first time in what feels like years.

We have more rain this year than the last few, of this I'm sure, and thunderstorms, this is about the third, and it's wonderful! (except for the bit about the extreme heat first)