July 31, 2006

• Just an ordinary entry today. The horribly hot and humid weather continues -- 42 degrees with the humidex (that's 108F). With no air conditioner, we basically suffer it out in front of the fans and pray for it to cool off soon. The apartment gets no through breeze at all, so we try our best to induce a little artificial ventilation whenever possible.

  My mother and brothers are in Halifax this week, visiting with my grandparents and aunts and uncles. I'm toying with the idea of a trip there in the fall, since I haven't been to Halifax since just before Korea (September 2002). I'm out of vacation time, so it would be an unpaid leave, so I have no idea how I would work it out with my place of employment. Speaking of places of employment, I've recently run out of patience with certain aspects of company policy and have actively engaged myself in attempting to get some of them changed. I've actually been meeting with some success, though not, of course, as much as I might like...

  The big upcoming event for me is the annual Mill Race Folk Festival, where, for the third year, I'll be doing MC sessions introducing the acts. One of my slots is the closing 3 hours on the mainstage, so that's exciting. The other big event is something I'll write about tomorrow.

  So that's a quick update. Hope all is well in your world.

  Take care
  -J-

  Tuesday Edit: Today the temperature's up to a remarkably unpleasant 48 degrees (119F) with the humidex, so that even sitting still is a sweaty business. I think that after breakfast, we'll escape to somewhere air conditioned and hide out there for a while. Thankfully, the forecast is for cooler weather by the time the folk festival rolls around on the weekend.

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