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Last I checked, it was 48 out there!  It wouldn't surprise me if it has cooled even yet.  Either way, that is really cool for an early August night.  Humidity is down to 35%, at least downstairs.  Chill.  It is 75 here, in the front room.  With the front door closed but most windows open.  No fans going.

Very strange.

A shower, finally.  Took a while to wake, rouse, and do.  But... done.  One of my recent purchases was a water boiler... heater.  It may have to go back.  It has a temperature lock, but that doesn't work.  So, as soon as it heats, with a very weak alarm I can not hear, it starts cooling off.  Anyway, I used it to make coffee.  Still, basically, it is broken.

As well, it was supposed to hold the heat, even without the stay warm feature.  It... really... doesn't.  In the mid 70s, in the kitchen, the temp in the kettle drops like a rock.  It is supposed to have double walls and insulation, but it sure doesn't seem to have it.  I have seen one that does have those things.  It doesn't brew as much water, but, as I am drinking tea and coffee rarely and in smaller quantities, that isn't an issue.  Further, it would do a large enough batch anyway, even for, say, four people... for hot cocoa, or tea, coffee, or to do instant soup or such.  I'll go for that one.  On the good side, that other one used to be $125~$150, sometimes on sale down to $85.  Now it is similarly priced to the one I bought.  The only bad thing is that it isn't all steel, as this one, at least near the water.  There are seals, of silicon from what I have heard.  Which also means there is a life limit to the item.  That will break down where stainless never will.  Then again, all these things are made to burn out, break down, or wear out in years, not decades, anymore.  Bleh.

Hmm?  Yeah, I... chatter.  Then again, it's been a while since I have had coffee, or tea for that matter.  It's been too hot.  While it reads 75, it... really isn't.  There is cool air in the 'corners' of the rooms.  Just... it's the way it is in drier climates.  Or the obverse.  The actual temperature read is some... strange... notion of the weather.  It isn't the whole, or even most, of the truth of it.  So, coffee is good.  Hopefully it will warm me enough to get to things.  I think that might have been part of the problem.  So... if it and the shower doesn't work?  Another cup of joe!  Cup?  Quart, that is.  Your cup may vary.  Then again, I can hide most of the quart jar in my hand.  Can you even do that with your cup, or mug?   Right, right... dosage, little ones.

Hmm... A bit more looking, more coffee as needed, perhaps a bite... maybe a cheese and coldcut 'sandwich'?  Maybe.  And a can of sardines?  Something like that.  A nice keto tour de France... or Italy?  Germany?  I think all the old ones do sausages fairly well, coldcuts as such, and sardines or else fairly well.  Or... did in their days.  I'm even older school, but... back then, we ate what was able to be et.  Hungry enough, your bad, or weak, neighbor starts looking... spittable.  :p  God didn't curse my kind for no reason.  Hungry bastards.  Some have never been able to control that hunger.  I feast on it, these days, often enough... and give thanks for the hunger.  When possible.  Amen.

Well... on to waking.  Things are looking up a bit.  Just a taste of warmth, and possibly caffeine.  Odd that tea has more caffeine, but it has less effect?  If tea is usually consumed cold?  No, I drink iced coffee, but... yea, maybe.  It, come to think of it, has a very muted effect, compared to hot.  If still, usually, stronger than tea.  Odd.  Well, and again, to it.  And, later, gator.