Desiderius Price

She’s showing off her true draconic self… properly menacing, don’t you think?  

Yes, well, sometimes it’s just exhausting to maintain a human guise.  

Off the top of my head, several ideas might help.

1. A swamp cooler – basically uses evaporation cooling, useful in a desert-like environment, not sure if it’d be enough for the 46C case.
2. Geothermal heating/cooling – though installation would cost

Now, wish this one was commercialized, it’d be perfect. Heard about it being demo’d in a DC science fair from a friend who went.  Solar based A/C, uses bromine as the working fluid, and sunlight to drive the cycle instead of the usual electric compressor.  It’d be perfect for your case, TBH, and for lots of people.  (I mean, if the sun’s not shining, you generally don’t need the A/C as much.)

I’ve looked into evaporative coolers.  They can work well if you live in desert-like levels of low humidity.  It does get like that here sometimes, but it also gets humid here as well, and evaporative coolers massively add to the humidity levels in your home. 

I’ve never heard of geothermal heating/cooling even being available anywhere here, nor could I find evidence of it being available here, so my guess it’s not really an option here.

I appreciate the effort though!  But I’ve lived through 40-odd years of stupidly hot summers so I can make it though a few more.  It sure makes you appreciate the other seasons more! lol

I fear with climate change, the temperatures are only going to get worse.  (Want 56C?)  That’s where the solar A/C idea is better, wish somebody commercialized it.  See, all cooling takes energy to drive, which gets released as heat in addition to the heat it’s driving out of the box  – this is why the net effect of leaving the refrigerator open (as the Simpsons showed) is to raise the temperature, not reduce it.  The solar A/C I heard about, it was solar heat (not electricity) that was going to heat us up anyways, so capture it and use it to cool a box while we’re at it – way better than burning fossil fuels!  Not sure if it was more efficient than solar electric panel → conventional A/C or not, I’d need numbers to know.

Geothermal, see no reason why it shouldn’t work, efficiency depends on how stable the temperature underground is.  Energy for any heat pump (which A/C is, a heat pump in reverse) is dependent on the temperature difference, greater that difference, the more energy it takes to accomplish.  Thus, if the below ground is at, say 36C, it’d be way better to use that as a heat sink than the 46C air.

See, I paid (some) attention in my thermodynamics class eons ago! 

One unspoken option is to relocate...feel like building an underground bunker in the back garden?  There’s this video on youtube showing a guy doing just that.

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Hmm… birthday spankings, haven’t had those in a long time.  Do you deliver?

Happy birthday, you nut!

I know, I know, but “you legume” just doesn’t have oomph.

Aw, I see the issue, that field is “hidden” so people don’t know I’ve made another trip around the sun today.

Happy birthday, Desi  You need to have that info unhidden for people to notice, I’m afraid     

Normally, it’s something I don’t advertise, op-sec/dox’ing avoidance.  However, once in a while, it’s nice to have it noticed! 

*not yet*

While I appreciate the vote of confidence, I’m not that great of a writer to get into the formalities of being published.

Rest in Peace. 

Rest in bliss

omg wait what?1 rest in peace!

Woo! I have a few ideas.

I’m mulling mine over… did put the rough outline into a file so it’s been at least committed that far.

Shweet. We’ll see if I can get “Night of the Were-Bimbos” finished this time.

Now, AFF policies are a bit more stringent than the other sites.  In addition to plagiarism, AFF doesn’t allow fanfic of fanfic (unless credited with permission of that other author); FFN is silent, AO3 has an “inspired by” annotation.  I make the distinction given that’s how I caught the writing-as-a-hobby bug; I was inspired by another fanfic, and I do credit that other author in the relevant fanfic (not posted here).

Does that mean there're no 50 Shades of Grey fics?  Since that's already Twilight fan fiction??  And how do you have more tags than stories?  That doesn't sound mathematically possible.  Anyways, thanks for the support peoples, I didn't know how much I needed that.

50 shades “filed the serial numbers off”, removed the elements that made it fanfic.  For my sequel to the fanfic of a fanfic, I could’ve done the same to bring it to AFF, but it didn’t feel right IMO and that’s why it remains on FFN & AO3 instead (or track down that other author two decades later...).

AO3 has 16M tags, 8M stories (according to their search engine).  As authors can freeform tags, they obviously got creative, like each story is required to create two tags, on average.  It’s so many that I check the “Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings” box to cover my arse. 

But yeah, you’re welcome.  Supporting authors is a nice thing here, the forums, being able to whine or stick up for others, and have a shoulder to lean on when needed.

My guess would be, the character who lives by the credo, “Where’s the fun in that…” 

Yeah, that’s likely a good choice.  I mean, I did toss a flash grenade into my MC’s face, should give him a break.

Wanking afterwards is definitely not advised, either, but somebody’s about to get a painful lesson

Aw, here in AZ you have to make do with the desert or the long list of abandoned mines.

So, you’d say you’d stand out in AZ if you started a garden featuring endangered plants?

Related (from FB), two ladies in a kitchen

Lady 1> Where’s your husband?
Lady 2> In the garden
Lady 1> I didn’t see him
Lady 2> You need to dig a little

That’s why I like having Google Docs on my phone. I can just dictate that line into the phone and go to sleep. (What the phone does after that is its own business.)

That’s the nice thing with the pickup, only a two-seater cab with not much space to accumulate clutter.

He has a gangbox in the trunk, and the back seat holds the overflow of things he needs, or once needed, or might possibly need, or forgot he has. I refuse to look for anything in his car. The last time I tried, something bit me.  

Well, fumigation might work for this!

… What cream if I may ask? I’m not allergic to aloe but I’d rather have a backup option.

Vaseline’s “Advance Repair” for skin, sort of helps, for a couple of hours.   (It’s what I had in the cabinet w/o having to go anywhere.)

Yeah, that summer I went windsurfing, every day afterwards I had sunburn in places I didn’t know the sun could even fall. Once I got home I’d just cover myself in whatever aloe vera or skin-care remedies were to hand and then flop down onto my bed for an hour or so until I stopped feeling like I’d been in the oven for too long.