mid-week heat continues

Wednesday 25 June, 2003 at 3:51PM (Nereus) :: permalink :: comments (0)

Yup another hot one, the high is predicted to hit 97°F today. I'm wondering if it will reach 100°F some time this afternoon considering it ended up at 98°F yesterday, which was several degrees above the predicted high. Tomorrow is meant to be the worst of it though - very high humidity forecast along with high 90's temperature (sounds like it will move into triple digits quite likely). Needless to say I have a big rotating fan blasting away and we've been using the air conditioners particularly in the late afternoon/evening when the sun comes streaming straight into our apartment.

I dreamed (dreamt?) of surfing again last night, except this time a big fuck-off shark took a bite out of the front of my surfboard! I had to be rescued by a helicopter off a rock out the back because the swell had got too big for an IRB rescue (inflatable rescue boat) and it was too big for swimming into the beach.. by big I mean huge - I'm talking 30foot+ waves here, it was massive. While the helicopter was flying me in (I was dangling below it in a rescue basket with my chomped surfboard) a huge wave came in that was way over 100foot.. then I woke up.

At the shops earlier I suffered an impulse buy. I was buying a bottle of coke and saw ice cold beer in the fridge at a really low price, so I thought to myself, "hmm.. hot day, ice cold beer.. that works." So I bought a few. Believe it or not, I haven't had a beer for over a year. Now I've had one, I wonder why the hell I used to drink them. Beer is an easily aquired taste, and it's apparent that the taste for it is just as easily lost. I didn't enjoy it at all. Oh, the beer I got was Heineken which I have drunk back in NZ fairly often, so it's not like it was just some generic crap beer I wasn't familiar with or anything. Go figure.

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