No progress...it's too hot

I console myself all winter with thoughts of the eventual warm summer. BAM, now it's 95-100 and I'm sweating my A off. I like it hot. But when it jumps 20 degrees to the nineties in one day, I don't have time to get acclimated. It's just too hot to do anything.

I had a lot of other obligations this weekend, helping people with things mostly, plus some projects around the house. Considering this heat, I actually did get a lot of things accomplished. We woke to a power outage Sunday, probably caused by my own air conditioners knocking out the grid. It was just kind of an off weekend. The best I can tell you is I began cleaning out the garage so I can use it for doing work on the S10 chassis. Didn't even get that completed. Just too hot to keep at it.

I was at a drag race last year, late in the year, and it was hot. We were at Lebanon Valley. I hadn't checked the weather. But I should have known it was going to be hot because I had to load some stuff up before I left in the morning, and I was sweating good, and it was only like 5:30 am. I got up there, and made a time trial run. By the time I got back and got out of the car, and out of the racing suit, I was nearly delirious. I was sweating so bad, all I could do was sit in the shade and try to keep calm, and hope I didn't pass out. I drank everything I had. I had to withdraw from the race, and I just loaded up and hung around for awhile.

I decided I would never do that again. I've been to the races when it's too cold, and many times when it's too hot. When you're a racer, you figure, there's other guys doing it, I can do it too. You just like to be there, and you just want to race. But I do it for my enjoyment. If I'm dead from heat stroke, or a heart attack, how am I going to enjoy it? I ain't no kid anymore. I'll be honest and say it; I just can't hack it. I'm more selective now. The same with this project. I'm not going to be completely miserable while I'm doing it. So no real progress this week.

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