Heat

Too much outside, and not enough inside.

We went for a walk this morning, and, once again, it was like taking a casual stroll in Panama -- not quite humid enough to make me look for the leafy banana trees and hooting birds, but close enough. It was nice to get back inside, where the AC was running.

On the other hand, we've noticed that our waffle iron has been sub-standard, last week or so. The waffles are undercooked; sometimes, they leave soft chunks in the griddle when the outer edges are done. Steam doesn't rise from it as much, either, when cooking. Our conclusion: the heating element is failing. Argh. I really don't want to buy a new one, for reasons ranging from general cheapness to this being an expensive month for us, what with the new refrigerator, taking an up-and-back trip to my cousin's daughter's graduation ( it's nice to see them again, but it works out to about nine hours of driving for about seven hours of visiting; way below the standard), and finding out last night that the phone in one room has given up the ghost (we tend to go through phones; for a while, we had two sitting in a box; we finally gave one away and pitched the other, though, when this one failed, we still had the red Trimline that I'd bought about thirty years ago; someone had told me that since AT&T was breaking up, the newer phones would be of less quality, and that certainly seems to be the case; the only problem with this one is that the cord doesn't match the phone, the result of a certain person thinking it was fun to yank on the cord when she was a toddler).

So, we've got to look at getting a new phone, and maybe a new waffle iron. Oh, and my daughter is getting contact lenses, which she loves; they will be wear-for-a-month-and-pitch types, which I don't, really; I know that they're more hygienic; I just don't like the ongoing expense. I suspect the lens people of taking marketing lessons from King Gillette. You buy them six months at a time; we'll likely say that if she loses them before six months, she gets to wear glasses until the six months is up. How heartless!