Florida Weather

      Living in an old pre-war apartment building in Brooklyn is like having summer all year round. The summers are hot if you don't use an air conditioner and the winters are hot inside with the radiator heat. Open windows are  not enough to cool things down. I grit my teeth and use the fan as well. I gave away my space heater years ago.  The only positive side of the eternal  heat is that in the winter it gets me out of the apartment on the weekends because going outside in 25 degree  weather is refreshing  compared to the eternal heat indoors.
      I used to live in a basement apartment that  required me to wear layers of  warm clothing and a use a space heater in the winter. That was much better than the eternal heat of my current apartment. Eternal heat also means the possibility of lots more mold  in the bathroom. and tossing and turning in bed at night because its too warm to sleep. I like living above ground better than below ground and I am not ready to move, but oy, Summer is on the way and I'm ALREADY hot.
       Parents used to tell their children to eat up all of their food because there were starving people in other countries. Some people like to say to me that I should appreciate the oppressive heat in my apartment in the winter months because some people do not have heat. If I could send all of the extra food and the excess heat to those in need I would.  I don't visit people on shabbos  who do not use air conditioning in the summer because I find it too oppressive. The people who like it hot better than cold ought to go hang out with the people who prefer standing desks. Then everyone would be happy.

Its all in your Head

     Its winter and as usual there are the thermostat wars at work. Some people are always hot and others are always cold.  Fortunately this year there are more people in the always hot camp than in the always cold camp so I am quite comfortable. Ironically the office is usually much cooler in the summer than it is in the winter.
     I think that for a lot of people feeling hot or cold is all psychological. If its winter people want it to be ultra warm inside and in  the summer they think that it should be  ice box cold.
   
   

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The Heat is On

     One thing about summers in New York is that my apartment is hotter than Hades and its not because my apartment building is pumping up too much heat. It is hot because its summer. In the winter I resist turning on the AC because I refuse to pay for AC when its really cold outside. In the summer I use the AC as much as I need to. In the winter everyone at work complains about the cold. In the summer work is properly chilled and no one objects. I prefer winter to summer. Too bad I live in a city where there is extreme indoor heat year round.