Feeling smug, but only a little...

I have done it. I've achieved a goal. Not a major goal, not one that's of any use, but it's one I set myself and I've done it.

Well I actually haven't done it yet, at time of writing, but once this is posted my mission will be achieved. If it doesn't get posted then there will be no public record of me (humbly) boasting of it so my red face will be mostly due to being out in this sun way too much.

Today (assuming this gets completed and posted successfully), I will have written 9 posts this month, equaling my total for the whole of last year. It's a modest goal, but happily, because it would be pathetic if I couldn't manage that, especially with the ease of posting photos and meaningless fillers, I have done it. I'm proud but just a little.

Disregard all of this if something happens to prevent the posting of this article, which you will anyway because you won't see it.

Sitting over here, sweating into my sweat..

We're having a hot old early summer here, in central Europe and much of the regions west of here, and east of here, oh yeah and south of here. And a bit north of here. At least I think so. Anyway who cares I'm here and here is hot!

Today we reach heights of temperature not yet risen to so far this summer and that part of June that officially is not yet summer yet. Been pretty hot since the turn of this month, but it's peaked in the early 30s til now. Today it's reached 36/feels like 37. Celsius of course.

Now, I know there are places where the temperature gets hotter than that regularly. I've lived in one of those places, but those places usually are by the sea and have breezes and bodies of water to hang out in, they usually have air conditioning in most buildings, and none of them are places where I work as a walking tour guide out in the city, where people will always turn up to do a tour no matter the weather, and somehow expect me to magic up some shade/shelter/warmth whatever is needed to rectify the problem, even if the city itself does not provide.

Today I am fortunately not working, so I'm lazing at home with a fan blowing hot air on me, trying to strategically place ice and cold water in places to make the air cooler. It's not making the air cooler.

The current temperature is a high, and the forecast says it will cool down to a more managable really hot for the next few days, but it will rise again to 30 something high, and feels like even higher... and I will have to work and won't have the luxury of staying in with a useless fan. It will be hard, and I will suffer greatly, but you know me, I don't complain. 🙄

I rarely complain but..

Don't laugh. Ok, laugh, but I'm gonna have a big old whine anyway.

To start with, it's hot. Not a surprise, it is summertime (technically almost) and we get super stuffy hot days as a regular thing here in the summer. Still, as I'm out on the streets again, that is doing the walking tours, it's affecting me. Already got that 'tshirt tan', except it's the dorky button up shirt which is inadequate for heat and stores up sweat that I need to wear as uniform tan. It's still the bus company (did I ever happen to mention that I work for a bus company? Well I work for this  bus company) but I'm mostly doing walking tours for them now. And it's hot.

Speaking of the bus company... that's my other complaint. Actually I have many.. but I'm going to be a lady and not have a whine about them in detail.. for now.

I think I may be more suited to a role as one of the idle rich, that would work for me just fine. Now just how does one actually get a gig like that?

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Settled and Permanent

I've been living in this place for 2 weeks now, and there's a contract and some security so for me it's kind of like buying a special plot of land that's sacred to your ancestors, hiring an architect to create the perfect design that especially suits your needs and taste, and making all your own furniture for it and raising your kids there. And 1000 years later it's still your descendants' ancestral home, complete with legends about you told around the campfire (because by then after the Great Galactic War we will have reverted to the stone age but that's already in the past so we're up to the new early modern by this stage) that are wildly exagerrated or frankly, completely made up.

Anyway boxes unpacked, found most of the stuff except for the stuff that we're never gonna find because it doesn't matter how careful you are and in our case it's not very, something will always be left behind, arranged our too much furniture for this size room in an acceptable way, got all keys for everyone, including the big old fashioned key that's difficult and expensive to get cut that it's completely stupid that they have for the doors here, after about a week of having to co-ordinate and wait and hurry because someone who had the key and was supposed to get them cut took his sweet ass time about it, and got used to things here and realized it's pretty alright. Top points for the bathroom and kitchen, which are a great improvement on the last place, oh and for the lack of gawking smokers in the hallway and the police coming to visit... did I happen to mention... nevermind.

Anyway still here. Plan to still be here next week.

A bit o' something visual

My local park, just around the corner. Makes a out as much sense as anything else does.

Oh and another thing...

Internet...

'to' and 'too' are not the same word. They are homophones but not synonyms. Look it up I don't have time to explain it to you.... *sighs and stuff*

Write More Stuff

I may not be writing here so much these days, not like days of yore, but it's an improvement on last year. Not the greatest boast, for last year I wrote a total of 9 posts here on this blog.

Now the challenge is to write more in a month, than the total I wrote last year, a modest goal that I have nevertheless failed to achieve so far, but that's what I'm going for this month. A total of at least 10 posts.

I know, I aim big.

And this of course isn't a filler post to add to the numbers for this month in order to make up the numbers for the challenge detailed right here no of course it's not.

But I mean it still counts in the total, like..

Moved on

I have moved again.  At present I am post the worrying about having a place and moving stuff to the place and moving self to the place, meeting everyone at place and beginning to settle in, but still pre getting everything out of boxes/getting boxes and furniture pieces out of the way of the floor/ having keys for everyone/knowing where the hell everything is and getting used to the new slightly annoying things that you only realize once you move into a place.

So, progress, I suppose.