It's begun. Highs today, 34, hot, plenty hot enough with an intolerable humidity. I've drawn all the blinds in the apartment, and today, finally, turned on the AC for a few hours. A deliciously cool 17 degrees, although I don't know if we ever got there, only that it was cool, it never stopped running.

The next few days, hot and hotter. The afternoon, hide in the half-light of the apartment with the AC on high, it makes it liveable, although the drawn-blinds, they remind me of visiting grandma in Moose Jaw when I was a kid, all the blinds drawn, 40 degrees outside, you were damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-didn't....

Not happy memories, just memories.

The murder heat dome has just begun...

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