“Remoted – Hybrid” – Day 802 (Friday) – impending hotness

Friday, it’s good to see you and thank goodness you are here. There seem to be some fine features flaunted by recent Fridays. The traffic has been light for both the morning and evening drives for several weeks and I couldn’t be more thrilled leaving the office at 5:00, heading down four floors, walking a quarter mile to the garage, and pulling into my driveway around 5:18. 

With a few exceptions, the office is mostly quiet, which allows for wrapping up all the loose ends for the week and makes up for some of the too many distractions and derailments of the previous in-office days.

Quiche was carried in for lunch (again), and it’s such a time saver not having to think about what to eat and where to get it. On the downside, despite planning to get out for a walk while the weather is still tolerable, I never left the desk for a break, continuing a longstanding bad habit.

The forecast for the weekend is for crazy hotness, at least if you consider 100 degrees to be hot. The 30-degree jump means it’s certain that the A/C will need to be turned on in the house, purely for survival. 

I used to think I loved the heat, but living in Tennessee for a dozen years with central air absolutely everywhere changed things. The upstairs gets so hot, I may need to wrangle the ten-ton window unit into the bedroom window. That activity, coupled with my noodle arm strength, usually elicits a lot of swearing alternating with prayers that it doesn't launch itself out the window into the asphalt path below. 

Both Saturday and Sunday have plans that will require driving, and the “Max A/C” in the car isn’t blowing super chill, and is running mediocre at best. At least the weekend plans don’t include baking in a field at a graduation or a wedding or anything like that. Might be a good day to hang out for a while in the ice cream aisle at the grocery store. It's good to have an option in the pocket. We’ll see.