Feeling the heat

[fenchurch]

I tried to refrain from mentioning yesterday, after reading so many people commenting on the heat, that our high for the day was 66°. Well, now I'm sitting here in southern California... it's just after 10:00pm and it's still ten degrees hotter than our highest temperature yesterday, back home. I feel like I'm about to melt! I suspect I may do just that tomorrow, when we head down to San Diego.

Note to self: Drink lots of water. Maybe get some Gatorade.

I'm feeling simultaneously elated and bummed... Comic-Con tomorrow! But I'm missing WriterCon! I've said it before, but why does everything have to happen on the same weekend? Even if I hadn't been able to go to Comic-Con and hadn't gone to WriterCon, I'd still have to choose between the company picnic, the Firefly marathon at the Kirkland Performance Center and the Scottish Games. Sheesh. This weekend is like a mini "Year of the Jackpot." (Speaking of which, the first book in the Virginia Collection is supposed to arrive while I'm gone, of course.)

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[valkyrie-kitten.livejournal.com]

Our local high was 103 today. Before the 'cut it with a knife' humidity. I miss the evening winter breeze. *sigh* Have fun a ComicCon! (and wave at my brother who is a horribly normal person living in Oxnard, Ca)

[allthatjazmyne.livejournal.com]

Yes, lots of water. Brent, who is from Arizona, where the crazy people live in this kind of heat all the time, makes us drink a lot of water our first day there, and then the heat is pretty tolerable. Although, I usually find myself taking a sweater everywhere, because some people have their AC turned down to "frostbite."

[tomte.livejournal.com]

Two suggestions:

1) Drink *all the time*.
2) Take lots of fatigue breaks.

These two things got my out-of-shape carcass through the high-temperature, high-humidity conditions at Dizzyland last month. Especially recommended if you plan on being up and around all day, though you should probably give yourself twice as many fatigue breaks since you're still recuperating.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I probably sound like your mom.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Heh! Yeah, I'm planning on all of the above. We're going to pick up some bottled water on our way down to San Diego, plus I'll probably end up hitting some vending machines for water during the day.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

It will only be in the early-to-mid 80s in SD -- and you'll be right by the water, so will get lots of cooling breezes. The southern beaches are always at least ten degrees cooler than it is around here (it was 95F today, and horribly smoggy).

Plus, you'll be indoors practically the whole time.

I forgot to tell you -- if you can possibly swing it, I urge you to have lunch/tea/SOMETHING at Karen Krasne's Extraordinary Desserts, on 5th a couple of blocks past Laurel (north of downtown on the way to the Hillcrest neighborhood). It is well worth finding -- Krasne's cakes, cookies, pastries, ice creams and sorbets are some of the best I've had anywhere. She makes a passionfruit mousse cake with coconut that is unbelievable, and when paired with her mango or pineapple sorbets, it becomes a platonic ideal. I never eat her chocolate desserts (the downside of being a pastry chef), but everyone I've ever taken there (and there have been dozens) all scream with delight over her cakes. She makes an incredible dark chocolate shortbread, amazing brownies, and beautiful scones -- all decorated with fresh edible flowers, fresh berries, more chocolate and/or gold leaf. Every time I go to SD I make it a point to have "lunch" there. Not cheap, but well worth it (and her non-perishable things like that shortbread (chocolate, pecan or lavender) make great treats to take home).

I also forgot to mention: if you can find it (and it's hard!) try to have breakfast at the Big Kitchen on Grape (in the South Park area). The woman who owns it is a friendly, raving old hippie, but the biscuits and gravy are ethereal -- and I mean it. They're like clouds in swimming in creamy sage-scented sausage gravy. Get a big bowl with some scrambled eggs and bacon, and go to Hog Heaven.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

cynthdiane was telling me that the closer we get to the ocean the cooler it will be... I think it's not helping that it's about twice as humid as it is back home, too (which is really saying something).

Karen Krasne's Extraordinary Desserts

That sounds wonderful!!! Especially the passionfruit mousse cake! I'm definitely going to try swinging by there if I can manage it!

[kcarolj65.livejournal.com]

Have fun at Comic-Con! We'll miss you.

Are you coming to Dragon*Con in September, or will you be Con'ed out at that point?

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I would love to go, but I'm not going to be able to. I'm heading to GenCon in mid-August... and then we're flying to England for a two week vacation in October. Between those two, I'm really not going to be able to afford Dragon*Con this year.

[gillo]

If it's any consolation, Joss will be at Comic Con so you might actually get to walk past His Jossness in person.

I know what you mean, though - I'm going on holiday on Friday, but there are at least four other things I'd like to do this weekend.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Don't feel bad about WriterCon--you get Joss! He'll be at the Marvel booth on July 22 at 4 pm. ::dies from envy::

I'll give you my firstborn if you get me his autograph...

Seriously. OK, not about the firstborn, maybe. But I would send you $$ and lots of it! That part I really do mean.

Have a great time!

[rahirah]

We'll have to do simultaneous con reports or something!

[taradaktyl.livejournal.com]

If it's any consolation? it was 98-record-breaking degrees here today... Not much work got done at my house - the studio was cooking! Spent much of the afternoon laying under a very lovely, familiar-to-you ceiling fan reading a book, and trying not to move....

And on the further consolation side - the Scottish games are not until NEXT weekend. :-) (It's supposed to be back in the 70s by then, and if I'm on top of my deadlines, I intend to go!)