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Okay, weather's still what one would call pretty good for November but: I decided to make Lemonade and finished all the sketches for my next book, which I'd scheduled to do much, much later. So now I can bask in the glow of my accomplishment, if not the light of the evening sun.

Speaking of the weather? Lakrids posted a pretty Danish summer picture. I take it all of Northern Europe is united in bitching about the weather?

Yesterday I went climbing and I did one route that's been there since I started at that wall nearly two years ago, and this was the first time I did it \o/. It's named "Skaterrollen": instead of normal holds you only got rollerblade wheels to grab. And not too many of them. Slippery little buggers, too, at one point I had to resort to chalking the wheel so my foot wouldn't slip.

So that was very cool. :)

And I found out that my new barefoot shoes are not good for regular climbing but work great when climbing trees! In case someone else has those and wants to try that...

Let's see if the crossposter works again... [apparently not?]

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Not to rub it in, but I had sun today with just some clouds! It was warm enough that I could walk outside in just a t-shirt and be comfortable, and the buses even had their A/C on (which was somewhat overkill, admittedly, because I was almost cold again inside the bus, but still). It was really quite pleasant.

Mach mich nur neidisch, ey! ;)

Well, tomorrow's supposed to be nicer, though I just saw that they already corrected that prediction and added a little thundershower in the afternoon. It's just... words fail.

and the buses even had their A/C on

*facepalm* Seriosly, turning on the AC, wasting energy and making everybody freeze when it's not even hot to begin with, that's just condensed stupidity imo. [eta: um, I have a lot of feelings when it comes to A/C...]

Edited 2011-07-26 22:35 (UTC)

Yeah, for most levels of heat common here the old method of just having buses with windows and roof hatches that open would be sufficient. Of course once it is very warm outside I'm happy for the buses to have such climate control, because then inside a crowded bus it's completely miserable with just windows, which I still vividly remember from back when the buses did not have A/C and you desperately tried to create some airflow. But of course once there is an A/C none of the windows are designed to open anymore nor are there roof hatches, because the A/C can't function with the windows open, so they have to use it all the time. It might be useful to have both so you could use the windows for moderately warm temperatures, and the A/C as a last resort to save energy, only they won't trust their passengers to keep windows closed once the cooling is on. You'd think these days there would be solutions for that kind of thing, like some window control the driver could lock electronically once the A/C is on or something, but apparently not.

You'd think these days there would be solutions for that kind of thing, like some window control the driver could lock electronically once the A/C is on or something, but apparently not.

That would make sense. On the other hand it'd be yet more electronic that can break down, and Die Bahn seems to have enough issues with that.

The other day I traveled in an intercity with old-fashioned windows that opened. I so enjoyed the feeling of being in control of the temperature for once, and to get some actual fresh air instead of air from a can.

Yes, low tech is definitely less error prone. Here some buses have windows that have a simple hex socket lock, and if they are unlocked they work like regular windows, and if they are locked and then you can't open them. For a while I thought they were always locked, and never tried to open Windows I saw with a lock, and was puzzled over the whole setup, but eventually I was in a bus that had windows with such locks, but some had been opened by passengers. So I assume that is the low tech realization of that kind of window control system.