August 23, 20241 yr the arabs might be on to something with the protecting the skin thing. soccer practice this monday and wednesday 5:30 to 8 and yesterday had a softball game at 6:30 and was none the worse for the wear. cowboys cap, LS fishing shirt, shorts. keep the sun off the skin, stay hydrated, and it's not so bad.
August 23, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, InkaUtexas said: Why? I laugh when I go visit clients and everyone is wearing jackets and Meredith at the Front Desk is wearing a sweater. Meanwhile when they walk to their cars they melt in those 50 feet. My building is so cold that leaving to lunch in 100-degree weather feels amazing. Of course it's only a minute walk. Edited August 23, 20241 yr by SimonBolivar
August 23, 20241 yr 37 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said: My building is so cold that leaving to lunch in 100-degree weather feels amazing. Of course it's only a minute walk. Yep, used to freeze my ass off in our office in Dubai. Would go out with the smokers on their smoke breaks to thaw.
August 23, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, gsoda3 said: the arabs might be on to something with the protecting the skin thing. soccer practice this monday and wednesday 5:30 to 8 and yesterday had a softball game at 6:30 and was none the worse for the wear. cowboys cap, LS fishing shirt, shorts. keep the sun off the skin, stay hydrated, and it's not so bad. I started noticing last Summer, much more so than in the past, that guys working construction on roads and large building projects now go for nearly 100% coverage. Long sleeve shirts, neck gaiters, large sunglasses, helmet shrouds....etc.
August 23, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, InkaUtexas said: SW Austin. They all have generators right? Not in my corner of SW Austin Being warned about more good times this afternoon
August 23, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, gsoda3 said: the arabs might be on to something with the protecting the skin thing. soccer practice this monday and wednesday 5:30 to 8 and yesterday had a softball game at 6:30 and was none the worse for the wear. cowboys cap, LS fishing shirt, shorts. keep the sun off the skin, stay hydrated, and it's not so bad. Yeah, they sure do. Dumbass americans in the Middle East and SW Asia wearing polyester golf shirts. Europeans in suits in August. Both trying to keep regular work hours. Arabs kicking it in the evening smoking shisha had it going on. Those were great meetings. When I am working outside I wear unbuttoned long sleeve linen shirts. They get all fucked up but they are cheap. Hydration is key. Real cold liquid is not the best. Try luke warm green tea. 36 minutes ago, Storm the Field said: I started noticing last Summer, much more so than in the past, that guys working construction on roads and large building projects now go for nearly 100% coverage. Long sleeve shirts, neck gaiters, large sunglasses, helmet shrouds....etc. Check out what a farmer/worker is wearing in Latin America. Wide brim hats, cotton long sleeve, etc.
August 23, 20241 yr 28 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: When I am working outside I wear unbuttoned long sleeve linen shirts. They get all fucked up but they are cheap. Hydration is key. Real cold liquid is not the best. Try luke warm green tea. i love everything about linen except the laundering. if you're unbuttoned doesn't your front side get sunburned?
August 23, 20241 yr Just now, gsoda3 said: i love everything about linen except the laundering. if you're unbuttoned doesn't your front side get sunburned? It is buttoned. Sleeves down, not buttoned. Army does the same when real hot. Get tan and call it a work shirt and fuck ironing.
August 23, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Storm the Field said: I started noticing last Summer, much more so than in the past, that guys working construction on roads and large building projects now go for nearly 100% coverage. Long sleeve shirts, neck gaiters, large sunglasses, helmet shrouds....etc. I have landscaping guys that I have used for new builds to put in flowerbeds and sod, and I have used them at my home for almost a decade. If they came in and robbed me, I couldn't pick out a single one in a police lineup. They are covered from head to toe. CHIEF
August 23, 20241 yr 14 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: It is buttoned. Sleeves down, not buttoned. Army does the same when real hot. Get tan and call it a work shirt and fuck ironing. unfortunately that's what my wife said.
August 23, 20241 yr Just now, gsoda3 said: unfortunately that's what my wife said. I do the ironing, which is fair since I am the one that wears suits when needed. Wife loves it, thinks the ironing board is a place to lay out clothes to decide what she wants to wear. I don't fight it, lost that battle before it every started. Undefeated.
August 23, 20241 yr 10 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: I do the ironing, which is fair since I am the one that wears suits when needed. Wife loves it, thinks the ironing board is a place to lay out clothes to decide what she wants to wear. I don't fight it, lost that battle before it every started. Undefeated. i feel your pain. i called her out on the ironing thing once. it didn't go well for me. now i fight a more passive aggressive battle. she folds the still wrinkled shirts and hides them in the middle of the pile for me to put away. i take them back out and hang them by the ironing board. they basically stay there until i need to wear it and then i iron it. right now i have one shirt i wore to cancun hanging there, waiting for an iron. i'm being stubborn about this one. we last went to cancun in july 2022.
August 23, 20241 yr I used to do DCI drum corps in the summers. We'd rehearse 8 hours a day outside, regardless of where we were in the continental 48. Most of the time it was hot as balls, and most of us wore little more than boxer shorts. One dude had a weird sun sensitivity, and so he would wear a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, a long-sleeved cotton button down, and khakis. We started to realize he wasn't sweating nearly as much as the rest of us. We all started covering up more, and it made a difference.
August 23, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said: I used to do DCI drum corps in the summers. We'd rehearse 8 hours a day outside, regardless of where we were in the continental 48. Most of the time it was hot as balls, and most of us wore little more than boxer shorts. One dude had a weird sun sensitivity, and so he would wear a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses, a long-sleeved cotton button down, and khakis. We started to realize he wasn't sweating nearly as much as the rest of us. We all started covering up more, and it made a difference. this just brought back a memory i haven't thought of in a while. i was a sophomore living in jester east when 9/11 happened. a few weeks passed and life went more or less back to normal. our IM football team was practicing one saturday on the IM field closest to the shack with a smattering of other groups around the complex. we gradually noticed a growing group of people speed walking toward the shack where we were which is weird because the parking lot's in the other direction. we looked over to where they were coming from and at the parking lot gate there were a handful of figures dressed in middle eastern robes and scarves. we never found out who they were (prob a student group), we got outta there with everyone else.
August 23, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said: I do the ironing, which is fair since I am the one that wears suits when needed. Wife loves it, thinks the ironing board is a place to lay out clothes to decide what she wants to wear. I don't fight it, lost that battle before it every started. Undefeated. Do you lay her out on the board when you decide you want to wear her?
August 23, 20241 yr 32 minutes ago, Trey3216 said: Do you lay her out on the board when you decide you want to wear her? No. As we all know, undefeated.
August 23, 20241 yr Suckers ^^ Only 95 with a feels like of 105 in Houston. On a side note, looking forward to getting outside on Sunday morning and taking the dogs for a long walk. If it weren't for the humidity, you could almost describe these conditions as "pleasant."
August 23, 20241 yr 41 minutes ago, Storm the Field said: Suckers ^^ Only 95 with a feels like of 105 in Houston. On a side note, looking forward to getting outside on Sunday morning and taking the dogs for a long walk. If it weren't for the humidity, you could almost describe these conditions as "pleasant." It really hasn't been bad today. Down to 97 with a 106 feels like. Hopefully we're getting out of the woods but I'm guessing mother nature's got a few tricks up he sleeve still.
August 23, 20241 yr 29 minutes ago, UTGrad98 said: 103/114 in dallas right now. Downright chilly here in SA at only 101/107.
August 23, 20241 yr Before the wind started blowing from the storm headed my way, we had a balmy 101/114. Nasty. Now it’s like 75 and glorious Edited August 23, 20241 yr by Trey3216
August 23, 20241 yr I know. I love it. Not much rain but this time of year I'll take whatever we can get.
August 23, 20241 yr Just dropped to about 90 down here. Added some shock and cleaned the hot tub filters.
August 24, 20241 yr 75 in San Marcos. Lots of thunder, just enough rain to make the sidewalk wet. Glorious!
August 24, 20241 yr 37 minutes ago, gofuckyourself said: Just dropped to about 90 down here. Added some shock and cleaned the hot tub filters.
August 24, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, NorthLoop said: This is fucking bullshit. I guess I'll take the cooler air though. Yep, hit I35 and died like the Pac-12
August 24, 20241 yr 18 minutes ago, TonyTexas said: Sorry. I added shock, cleaned the filters AND turned the heat up a couple degrees. I'm good.
August 24, 20241 yr Baked in the sun moving the kid into his dorm in Austin Thursday evening and this morning. When we left Austin, it was 103F (about 3:30 pm). By the time we were about an hour northeast of Austin, the outside temperature was 87F. Going to get into the 70s tonight in Tyler and not much higher than low/mid 90s this week and going forward. Stoked!
August 25, 20241 yr Crazy how just a little bit of improvement can feel so much better. Currently 96, but with pretty low humidity, and the feels like is "only" 100. Compared to the 110+ heat indices of this past week, it's downright tolerable outside today. Decent rain chances starting tomorrow through Labor Day.
August 26, 20241 yr Congrats fellas. Best furnace over for you for another year. Only set to high for like a week.
August 26, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said: Congrats fellas. Best furnace over for you for another year. Only set to high for like a week.
August 26, 20241 yr Only 85 on my dashboard thermometer this morning and there were these large gray clouds blanketing the sky. Now there's water falling from the sky. Weird.
August 26, 20241 yr 3 minutes ago, NorthLoop said: You jinxing motherfuckers. Not even September yet. August might be an all-time record for this type of regardedness in our annual blastfurnace threads.
August 26, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, NorthLoop said: You jinxing motherfuckers. Not even September yet. Yeah, but I am seeing the rain heading south of Austin start to dissapate and I will blame you.... You and your forcefield. DAMMITTTTT
August 26, 20241 yr Author 2 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said: Yeah, but I am seeing the rain heading south of Austin start to dissapate and I will blame you.... You and your forcefield. DAMMITTTTT I was born with too many midichlorians.
August 26, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, NorthLoop said: I was born with too many midichlorians. antibiotics should take care of that.
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