It's now 88 degrees in Redmond, and almost 100 degrees everywhere else!
So, I checked the temp when I went home for lunch... The Apartment was 82.9 degrees! That's too hot for Jaani!!!!!! bad stuff.
Well, Jaani was ok, and I dipped him in the tub for a little cool down... and I even left the water in the tub in case he gets too hot, and because just having cold water in the tub will help keep the heat down a little.
Last night, I froze a fairly large block of ice in my freezer... about 12 gallons worth of water. So, when I went home, I had a ice block to put in front of the fan. in about a half hour, the temperature went from 82.9 to 82.5 degrees. So, that's doing some good. I also realized that the largest source of heat in my apartment (before about 8pm) is my kitchen window. The only window I didn't cover with a blanket. So when I went to make my lunch, I could feel the heat coming through the window. I went and put a moist towel over the window to stop the heat from coming in.
Today is hot, but tomorrow is supposed to be hotter! So, I'm going over to Home Depot tonight to pick up some copper tubing, a water pump, and a cooler... maybe not all of that stuff will come from Home Depot, but some of it will. Then I'm going to make an "air conditioner." The basic premise is the same as the block of ice, but the device will pump ice-cooled water through the copper tube (exactly like a radiator) to increase the surface area of the cooling element. The ideal solution would be to find someone who is throwing out an old refrigerator and remove the radiator from that, but this will have to do. I wonder if my good friends at Jet City have an old freezer that doesn't work anymore... hmm.
