Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

Wow. This has been a pretty cool summer, here in Buffalo at least. It's now August, and I'm not sure if we've even hit 90 degrees a single time. Usually we're good for seven or eight days of 90s around here. Of course, we may still get them, but I'm hoping not. I loathe hot weather. Our current apartment has central air conditioning, which is a magnificent luxury, and we've use it probably a total of ten times this summer -- and even then, we only turn it on around 7:00 at night, when there's that lag-time between the cooling outside and that inside. We've never yet run the thing all day. (Speaking of which, not only are there people here who run their A/C when it's only 75 and not very humid, but there are people who run the thing full-bore when they're out to work. What a tremendous waste of energy, if their units work as well as ours, as I assume they must, given that we're in a development with identical buildings. Our apartment cools noticeably within the first ten minutes of turning the thing on, and by the time we've run it for three hours, parts of our home are downright frigid.)