Hot. That is what it has been here in Silver City, NM. Hot. Now if I were in Boise, 94 or 96 wouldn't be that hot. But in Boise, I had air conditioning. Not so here in Silver City. 6000 feet of elevation above the sea does not equal coolth.

I have done many things to lower the temperature of the room in which I live. I have tried:
1. closing the window when the outside temp rises above the inside temp
2. closing the blind when the sun starts its westward slide
3. buying an outside shade and lowering it
4. buying a roll of insulated reflective stuff and stapling it to the outside of my outside shade
5. buying another fan--floor model to augment my ceiling fan (sub-standard, 4-bladed weakling that it is)
6. wearing less clothing
7. moving to another room when the temp in here rises above 88 degrees (This doesn't exactly lower the temperature in my room, and so constitutes escaping from the problem)
8. counting the days left before I leave on a trip in my air-conditioned car (qualifies as another escape from the problem)
9. telling myself that many people in this world live without a room to be too hot in
10. looking at pictures of Antarctica
And one I haven't tried but may have to--taking the thermometer out of my room (current temp is 88.0. Time to leave.)