thankful for....

[kitanzi]

At the moment, airconditioning. Oh, boy, am I thankful for airconditioning. Local conditions are predicted to be at least 100 degrees by the thermometer and anywhere up to 110 including the heat index, likely breaking records. I am MASSIVELY grateful to be out of our old apartment, where the air conditioning kept breaking down over and over again. Our company's 10th anniversary celebrations at various locations are scheduled all this week, almost all of them outside, and are they being called on account of heat? Oh no... so, I am sitting here today and eating whatever I have stashed at my desk in preference to going out and driving 20 minutes for a very nice free picnic lunch. I suspect a lot of people are making that choice today.

It's all ACat's fault that this is stuck in my head, but today it feels all too right:
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where Hydrogen is built into Helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees...

Comments

[otherdeb.livejournal.com]

Technically speaking, wouldn't it be the two Johns' fault? But, yeah, sounds like the day for hearing that.

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

While it *was* TMBG that I learned the song from, real credit ultimately goes to Lou Singer and Hy Zaret, who wrote the song way back in 1959.

(I need to find some Cheap Seats screencaps and make a "Do You Care?" icon for little trivia like this. *grin*)

[poltr1]

Actually, now I'm thinking about Christine Lavin's song about air conditioners.

[wheezinggirl.livejournal.com]

HOT! You know what though - having lived both in the north and the south - I'll take HOT over SNOW any day. Bring on the AC!

[otherdeb.livejournal.com]

I hadn't known the authors of the song, but thanks for the info!

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Looks like we picked the right time to leave the state--it's posivitely *chilly* up here!

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you don't have to shovel the heat (though it does occasionally feel like you could).