Return of Memoryfest - Day 17/31

[bironic]

I have read all of your lovely memories as well as your conversations about vision quality and blurry monitors -- thank you, again, for sharing and chatting and generally making life that much cheerier, informative and interesting. I hope no-one is put off when it takes me a while to reply

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[thewlisian_afer]

Oh, man. When I was a kid I always hated summer. I still do, even though I have an air conditioner in my room now, but that's another story. Anyway.

When I was a kid the only thing we had to cool the whole house was an air conditioning unit that we'd put in one of the living room windows the first day it was hot enough and we'd put sheets over the entrances to the living room so the cool air stayed there and was actually effective in at least one room. I remember trying to sleep at night, lying sprawled out on top of the covers wearing just underclothes, with both the windows in my second-floor room open as wide as they'd go in hopes that the night air was cooler than the air that'd been trapped in the house all day. It always took ages because of the heat, but eventually the sounds from outside -- crickets, owls, June bugs, the creek in the woods if it'd rained a lot recently, sometimes the rain itself, etc. -- would lull me to sleep.

I now have an ambient sound program (Natura Sound Therapy 2.0) on my computer and when I go to bed I turn on the "Forest Evening" and "Babbling Brook" options very softly and it takes about half the normal amount of time it takes me to get to sleep.

[bironic]

Trying to fall asleep when it's hot is just the worst. At home it wasn't usually a problem, but visiting friends or our grandparents or on vacations or when I went to college, even on warm nights it was tough. Bleh. I'd rather wrap myself in cozy, heavy blankets against the cold than strip down and sweat over a sheet in the summer.