It's been uncomfortably hot this week. Just my luck that instead of spending the days in my air-conditioned office I scheduled this week for some vacation time. I don't have air-conditioning in my apartment. Just never bothered. Except for maybe one or two weeks a summer when it goes over 90 degrees, my assortment of fans (window, Vornado and rotating types) are sufficient to keep things fairly comfortable. Plopping down a couple of hundred dollars and losing access to a window (or two) to stay comfortable for those two weeks never seemed worthwhile.
My father didn't believe in air-conditioning. Oh, he didn't deny its existence; he just felt no need of it. He grew up in the old days (he'd be 96 years old now if he hadn't died already) and never got used to new-fangled technology like color TVs and touch-tone phones. He was still using a rotary phone and only gave up on black & white TV because he couldn't find another 22 inch black & white when the old one gave out. It is a bit mind-boggling to contemplate how much life in general changed over the course of his lifetime. I don't think he ever did understand what e-mail was or how people communicated by computer. As far as I know, he never even traveled by airplane. He was born in the US and went back and forth to Europe a couple of times, but always by ship. During WWII he might have been flown somewhere at some point, but I don't know.
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