Have you started your intersnship yet? Wait till you get into your car after walking in the 105 degree sun wearing a suit and tie.
Living on a farm with animals, that comment is in very poor taste and is anything but funny considering the probable reason behind the photo. Carol
Speaking of "Welcome to Texas," I called Robert_C and spent a good minute and a half talking with him before I finally realized he thought I was somebody else. He says it's not his fault, we all sound the same because of our accents. I think I need to loan him my copy of the dictionary. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This was why I was complaining! I was sweating in my office for 4 days ... my office was unbearable, they turned it down yesterday, after the building facilities guy came and took a temperature reading in my office - he didn't tell me, but it had to be pushing 78-80F in my office. Combine that with the fact my inlaws insist that 76-78F is an ideal A/C setting for their home (I'm a 70-72F person), and it turned out my only "cool" time was my 1hr commute, although my evening one was hampered by being sweaty... Is that a TX thing though, to have one's house so warm? It's odd to be in a home with central A/C and still have to sleep without sheets. I'm used to high 90's after HI, but I lived on the Windward side with the constant ocean breeze. A co-worker and I were joking that after wonderful weather in Hawaii, Boston winters and Dallas summers were nature's payback.
I'll say one thing, paying $1.25 for a day of parking is wonderful! And that's in downtown Dallas (the lots East of the Bank1 Center)! People here understand that Man was meant to drive. Everywhere.
Depending on the house, how well it's sealed up, and how efficient (or inefficient) the a/c system is, the difference betwen 72 deg. and 78 deg. could be hundreds of bucks a month in electricity. Give me a Texas summer over a new england winter any day of the week.
Every heard of Arlington Valley, Arizona? 50 miles SE of Avondale/Phoenix. 5 years or so ago when I showed up to a job site we were building on it was 125 degrees. It freaking hurt to stand in the sun. It was just about as bad in the shade. Guys would apply for a job at 6am, get processed in by 9am, work until 11 then drag up and head back to wherever they came from before lunch. Talk about massive heat. The only good news is the words "swamp cooler". You can freeze yourself out of the house using ye old dew point as your friend. It is very cheap to do so as it is nothing more then a fan and a water pump.
I have 2 A/C units at my house. The one that cools the living room/kitchen side is the big one, and it can't keep up. I have 43 windows in my living room, and the bulk of them face South and East, so I get sun all damn day. My wife doesn't believe in shades because it blocks the 'view'. So yes, 78 degrees is 'normal' in that part of the house.
Elm St., next to the 75. There are ~4 square blocks of open-ground parking owned by one company, and the price goes from $1.25 from the furthest lot to $4 for the ones within 1 block of the BankOne center. It's funny how 300 feet can make $1.50 difference in the price. TC - They don't pay parking since the compensation allows me to afford $1.25 a day. Sure, I could park in the building for $12 a day, but I am not crazy enough to pay $270 more a month to not walk 4 small blocks!
You may also want to consider shade screens. I am not sure if you can tell from this shot but the windows on my house facing my pool (sunny side) have a black metallic screen on them. From the outside it is very hard to see in. From the inside...well, you can see it. It makes a massive difference on the amount of heat let in. They are available at home depot and just about any contractor will install them (they are simple DIYs...just measure your windows and bust out the screw driver). I do not remember the commercial name of the covering. Image Unavailable, Please Login
