{"id":59,"date":"2007-08-31T14:41:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T18:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/but-its-a-dry-heat\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T22:41:19","slug":"but-its-a-dry-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/31\/but-its-a-dry-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"But It&#8217;s A Dry Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never quite figured out what people mean when they say &#8220;Sure it&#8217;s hot, but it&#8217;s a dry heat.&#8221;  I mean, your oven is a dry heat too, but you wouldn&#8217;t want to live in it!<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am comparing Arizona to living in an oven, and I&#8217;ve been here less than a day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->About 6 hours after I made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/we-have-clearance-clarence\/\">my last blog post<\/a>, our internet access was turned off by The Man. The last two weeks in Massachusetts were not pleasant &#8211; no internet, no television, no money, and nothing to do but pack and move and clean and pack some more, all day, every day.<\/p>\n<p>Fun.<\/p>\n<p>But I made it, arrived in Arizona last night after a long day of airport, plane, airport, plane, taxi ride. So far here are my thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have literally never seen my father so happy. We spent hours just chatting, and he excitedly showed me all of the books he&#8217;s read recently, and bought but hasn&#8217;t read, and wants to read but hasn&#8217;t yet. Not being able to walk around town like he did for decades has been a hard blow, but he can still read, and does. A LOT.<\/li>\n<li>My older sister has really thrived out here, and it&#8217;s obvious she loves living in AZ.  Got her license and a car, loves her job (and they love her); it&#8217;s great to see her so happy.<\/li>\n<li>It feels like I&#8217;ve already had as much food since I&#8217;ve been here as I did the last two weeks back in MA.   \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Not-So-Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m a bit concerned about the amount of space in the house; plenty of people-space, but not so much for all the stuff I have coming.  I really did make an effort to get rid of as much as I could before leaving, but I don&#8217;t think I was merciless enough.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also worried about how the actual unpacking is going to go once my freight pods arrive. Packing in MA was a nightmare &#8211; I&#8217;m not out of shape if the shape in question is a sphere, but otherwise, I get winded just by sitting too long. Here it&#8217;s at least 20 degrees hotter, and I&#8217;m completely on my own (my sister helped a LOT in MA).<\/li>\n<li>Maybe I just worry too much &#8211; we&#8217;ll see how it goes!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Bad<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I already miss everyone.  I miss my sister, who I got to hang out with every single day for four years; I miss my niece and nephew, who I saw when they got up in the morning until we put them to bed at night;  I miss my Soldier of Fortune buddies because I haven&#8217;t been able to play in weeks; I even miss my mom more out here, because this used to be her home and she is still all over it.<\/li>\n<li>Two words &#8211; Dial. Up. I feel like I&#8217;m living in the stone age.  This morning I was finally able to get back into TheMook.Net to do the usual anti-spammer cleanup, and what used to take me 10 minutes took 2 hours.  No broadband means no Soldier of Fortune, no World of Warcraft, no video chat, and crippled instant messaging. Even email takes so much longer. Yuck.<\/li>\n<li>The disgusting Heat! It&#8217;s routinely over 100 degrees in Tucson, and in Phoenix (to the north of us) they just completed 21 consecutive days with temperatures over <strong>110<\/strong>. The house (and pretty much <em>every<\/em> building) is air conditioned, but it&#8217;s not enough &#8211; I still need to have the ceiling fan on and sit right under it to be even close to comfortable. Hopefully I will adapt (or lose weight &#8211; I&#8217;m sure all the extra flesh baggage doesn&#8217;t help matters).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m still kind of out of the loop here for another few weeks (months?) until things get settled and sorted out, but I wanted to let everyone know I made it cross-country safely and am in the process of rebuilding. My email is still out of commission for a while though, best way to reach me is through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/phpBB2\/\">TheMook.Net forums<\/a> (either a public post or Private Message).<\/p>\n<p>I have pictures to share as well, once it won&#8217;t take me 11 hours to upload them!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themook.net\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?t=3460\" title=\"Forum Comments\">Forum Discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never quite figured out what people mean when they say &#8220;Sure it&#8217;s hot, but it&#8217;s a dry heat.&#8221; I mean, your oven is a dry heat too, but you wouldn&#8217;t want to live in it! Yes, I am comparing Arizona to living in an oven, and I&#8217;ve been here less than a day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themook.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}