Summer is here and the heat has arrived.  Once in a while a day might be overcast, and there may even be a light drizzle.  But his is mentally crowded out by the heat, at least in my mind while my mind is situated in my living room.  The local owner’s association has organized a row of trees between my house and the road, but it will be another two or three years before they are big enough to make a difference.  I cannot really do any work between 15:00 and 19:00 and I usually just take a nap.  When I wake up, my hair is wet with sweat.  Now it is 23:45 and inside it’s 27C, outside 24C. Some nights there is a breeze and last night there was a real gale, but tonight it is quiet.

But this is not yet the height of summer; that is still coming.  At least we are slowly being acclimatized and not dropped into it all at once.  My body adapts, just as it adapted to the worst of Finnish winters.  In fact, it is strange that I don’t remember any big shocks when I returned to Finland in January for the last couple of years.  I think the cold is easier to accept than the heat, and as I often tell people, Finland is not that cold.  At least not inside.

Oh well, my energy is still high enough to do some useful work.  I’m rerunning experiments for what I hope will be a January paper.  This must be fnished by Sunday.  But today there were many distractions, mostly administrative.  What I *should* be doing is cleaning my house in preparation for the BIG CLEAN on Monday when my mother and her sidekick is coming to help me out.  Yearly ritual that I should be growing out of, but it’s not the work, but the company I need.

One other thing I did today is to re-decide not to participate on Facebook.  My strategy is to accept all friends and reject all other invitations.  (With small exceptions.)  But I don’t see how people have the time to update their online identities and still maintain their offline lives.  I don’t.  Sigh.  It’s hot.