Slow Death by Sauna

Well thank you all so much for your birthday wishes. My birthday itself was good....but the rest of this week has pretty much sucked figs! So I apologize for not being on here to write, nor comment, but I think you will understand. You see, the heat index here in Florida was 110 degrees today, with the humidity at almost 90%! Can you even fathom how freakin' hot and humid that is? Well you probably don't REALLY know, unless your air conditioner picked yesterday evening around 10:00pm at night to quit working. You know....AT NIGHT.....so that you cannot get a repairman until the next day!!!!!
But hey, we survived the overnight hours....and Mr. repair dude moseyed his unsympathetically slow arse on over today around 2:00 in the afternoon, so that the house was a gigantic SAUNA! He promptly fixed some small part for $135 and went on his merry way. And by golly, after an hour, we actually cooled down to a whopping 83 degrees inside the house....woo hoo! But sadly, that is as good as my day got.
Because from that point forward, it preceded to get hotter again. Yep, his repair didn't work, but by that time he was all the way across town, almost 1.5 hours away, with several clients still to service. He gave us several things to try....all of which ended as EPIC FAILS! And then he reluctantly said he would come back, although it wouldn't be until late. So we were going to go get our camper and park it in the driveway, so we'd at least have some air to sleep in. But since he was coming back to fix it right this time....we held off on going to get it. Fast forward to 10:30pm when he calls to inform us that he's not coming back tonight, and maybe he'll be to us first in the morning, or maybe he'll just go to another client first and then get to us some time again tomorrow! WTH?? We are baking like clams in a pressure cooker....and he's NOT going to come back to FIX what he took our $135 to FIX earlier today, before he left us here to die a slow miserable death by sauna?!!! And to add insult to injury, he's going to put another client in front of us tomorrow? We have every fan we own turned on high, and it's 86 degrees and climbing at 1:00am this morning. The only thing you can even do...is sit right under a fan on the couch and remain VERY still. As long as you don't move, and vigilantly refrain from exerting even one iota of inertia.....you can actually be comfortable enough not to expire from heat stroke. Forget cooking, eating, typing, or moving! And my office, which is at the back of the house.....is the HOTTEST freaking room in the house of course. It's about 89 in here! It is taking every ounce of energy I have to type this.....and I am sweating just sitting here typing. Have I mentioned that I HATE Florida?! Well I do! We are all so lethargic from this relentless heat that it's like being on sedation drugs. Even the animals are just laying around sleeping all day.
So depending on what this joker does tomorrow....we may be going on an impromptu camping trip until someone fixes our air conditioner. That is IF.....IF we have not expired from this earthly realm in a big ball of spontaneous combustion before the sun rises! If I don't come back here within a week's time....please notify the authorities to search our home for ashes. In the meantime....I'll just leave you with some creepy cool B&W photos. They are so atmospheric and perfect for Halloween, and they help me take my mind off my misery! I hope to be back on shortly! **(I have no copyright information on these images....wish I did. The trick or treaters look to be from the movie "Trick or Treat", not sure. So if you took it, let me know so I can credit you or remove it upon your wishes.)