Now there’s a capital idea. It’s been an age since I’ve done that. I wish I had a Roundrock to escape to. Or a pool in my back yard. ;)
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Not to brag, but… weather.com reports on expectations for the next 10 days:
Local Forecast for Seattle, WA (98103)
Jul 21 Today
Plentiful sunshine. Warm. High 84F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph.Jul 21 Tonight
Partly cloudy this evening followed by mostly cloudy skies and a few showers after midnight. Low 61F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.Jul 22 Tomorrow
A few clouds early, otherwise mostly sunny. High near 80F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.Jul 22 Tomorrow night
Mostly clear skies. Low 56F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.Jul 23 Saturday
Abundant sunshine. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low 50s.Jul 24 Sunday
Sunny. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the mid 50s.Jul 25 Monday
Abundant sunshine. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s.Jul 26 Tuesday
Abundant sunshine. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the upper 50s.Jul 27 Wednesday
Abundant sunshine. Highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 50s.Jul 28 Thursday
A few clouds. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the upper 50s.Jul 29 Friday
Abundant sunshine. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the mid 50s.Jul 30 Saturday
Clouds giving way to sun . Highs in the low 70s and lows in the mid 50s.
Your basic Seattle summer weather, except that the forecast suggests that we might actually have a bit of precipitation.
It’s been simply glorious here since mid-day Saturday, which happens to be exactly when T & R arrived from New Hampshire. They left on Monday to visit friends in Portland and relatives in Coeur d’Alene, but we had a great time while they were here. And they’ll be back next week.
Oh.Rub.It.In! I’ll bet you don’t have much humidity, either. Why do I keep trying to tell myself that I really like it here? Huh?
Meanwhile, my computer is sick. Well, not really sick, just severely limping along with way too little memory and it is getting painful. I’ve had a crash, crash, crash kind of morning. But upgrading memory for this relic would cost about 1/3 of a new computer. This is dangerous territory to be in. Grr.
Humidity? What’s that? Even when it’s raining, it doesn’t seem humid here. I can’t explain that one.
Nope, never humid. Nor is it buggy ... I can’t remember the last time I saw a mosquito here.
Sorry to hear about your computer. I really need to think about moving on from my relic as well (Pentium III, 500 MHz, 14 GB drive, running Win98), but just haven’t gotten to it.
Well our skeeters are so big they’re soon to become an alternate mode of transportation. I’ve heard there’s even a designer series of saddles coming out this fall.
And I swear no one can do humid like the northeast. Even humidity in the south doesn’t feel as humid.
Yes, it’s time for you to buy a new computer! Maybe I should just buy the memory for mine. Everything else is good for another couple of years at least. It’s a Pentium 4 with 1.3 GHz processor and 80GB hard drive. I’m not lacking speed or space. I just can’t open more than one or two things at a time since upgrading to XP. What a memory hog.
Heat, humidity, and skeeters are among the few things I’m happy to be missing since leaving New England.
Though the H&H are more oppressive elsewhere—I grew up, after all, in 90 degrees-90% Philadelphia, and spent six years in Louisville—it may indeed seem worse in New England. I’d suggest two reasons for that:
a) just about everything is air-conditioned in the Middle Atlantic and the Ohio Valley, so you face the awfulness only sparingly there.
b) in its psyche and soul, New England isn’t supposed to be miserably hot. The MA and OV are.
Yes, true. We are better known for our heroic longsuffering through long bitter winters. Heh. What a quaint myth. We have exactly three weeks of glorious, flawless weather...the last week of September through the second week of October.
I’m remaining silent on the weather discussion for obvious reasons. 
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Well, if you want to come out to mid-Missouri, you could go skinny-dipping in the lake at Roundrock!