We have actually been doing pretty well for the past couple of weeks in regards to the heat. But today the heat is back and back big time. I went out before seven and sat out on the balcony and it was hot, but bearable, for the first hour or so. Dominica came out a little after eight, spent less than five minutes and went back inside saying that it was ridiculously hot and she was not going to stay out any longer.
It was at a heat index of one hundred by nine this morning and climbed to one hundred and six by later in the day. It was a hot one. I sat outside and tried to handle it as long as I could but my late morning the battery on the MacBook was dead and I went inside to enjoy the world of air conditioning.
Pretty normal day today, not every day out of the US can be a magical travel or sightseeing day. It’s just a day of working from home today. Nothing special in any way.
Some guys who work on the building were on our balcony painting today. They have been doing the whole building while we have been here. We are so glad that we are not them working out in that heat in jeans today! What an awful job. Although even in the over one hundred degree heat they did not appear to be doing too badly. I suppose if you are use to it, it is only so bad. This is the cool part of the year!
Late this afternoon Dominica took the girls down to go swimming again. There were down for several hours today and both girls did a ton of swimming. Liesl, I am told, is making incredible progress and is swimming with quite some confidence without her floaties already! She is even jumping into the pool without them from the side and swimming across the pool to the shallow center area! She is doing so well. Years ahead of me when I was young.
This evening after work was over Liesl played Dust for about half an hour but decided that she was not in the mood for it tonight. We tried a few different games but most of them just do not work. Trying to use a Mac for video games is just pointless, it does not work at all. Mostly just nothing runs at all.
By late in the evening I ended up playing Moebius: Empire Rising which required me to sit close to the television and play with the laptop on my laptop which was not very comfortable. I played through the entire first chapter of it, which took a little under two hours. So far I like the game quite a bit. It is a bit different, teaches a little about history and geography and appears to be well written. It is a Jane Jensen game and she has a long history of being one of the most recognized game writers in the industry.
I was pretty tired today and decided to just go to bed at ten. Unusual for me.