If you've been reading my blog, you might know that I like cold weather. I love it. I love feeling cold. Coldth against my skin, that's what I'm about.

Summer time is hotter than ever, I have a sun burn as usual, and my nights are spent tossing and turning, sweaty in bed. Which brings me to.....the AIR CONDITIONER!!!

Best Buy, like all major stores, occasionally overstocks. They buy too much of this, too little of that, and the result is a year's worth of air conditioners not purchased because people are busy saving money on electric bills so they can throw it all into the month's gas expenses (myself included).

But now it's hot as ever, and those $60 free standing air conditioners are looking mighty fine. I used to have a wall unit when I lived in Florida. It was wonderfully cold, but frightfully loud, and occasionally it made horrible groaning sounds.

Best Buy is where I window shop. I almost never buy anything, but I'm worried if I go there a couple more times, I might become the owner of a clunky, oversized AC. And I'll use it for approximately a month and a half.

Anyway, health link time: Go see damage control master formula or how to deal with stress. They're awesome

It's raining in L.A. which means it's colder than the average day.

The sun never rose this morning, just a palid cover of grey, thickening the dirt on my car windshield into small, muddy rivulets as I drove along the Pacific Coast to work. The ocean isn't particularly timultuous, though I suppose I'm not close enough to the water to tell the difference. There's no surfers today, that's for sure.

The rain came and went several times in the morning, never building to anything exciting. I still haven't heard thunder. But everything is heavily dewy, and my shoelaces are wet as usual.

In other news, I'm building myself some washboard abs, one crunch at a time. Almost gave myself a hernia doing crunches on a rubber ball the other day. Oh well, no pain no gain and all that mythology, right?

I've also been reading some great health websites about vitamin information. I found a great multivitamin called the Master Formula. It should definitely help out with my washboard abs.

California is a generally warm, sunny place. Even near the beach the ocean breeze leaves the mid day warmth alone. But the morning chill feels all the more bitter knowing that the days are going to be pleasant. In Oregon I dress for the cold, I put on my overcoat before I ever escape into the day. But California was made for thong shoes, and beach trousers, and open chested fray shirts. This is what I wear in the morning, which is no sort of defense against the morning chill, however subtle it may be.

The other problem with the morning chill, is the foggy frost on my windshield. It's not a frozen plast like ice of North Dakota, it's a  thickened dew, and it reappears with every flush from the windshield wipers. Bleh, I'd much prefer the actual cold, even this late in the season.

And don't forget to have yourself the best multivitamin. If you're going to buy vitamin supplements, but the best ones, that's what my grand father told me. Hoo ah.