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More than one billion viewers of the Opening Ceremony (according to the media).

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Multitasking?? No, multi-pleasure!! I have free WiFi from the CARE Center (to create these blog messages). I have free TV via a through-the-air antenna. My trailer home is cool and comfortable via the recently installed air-conditioner. Earlier today, I shopped for groceries and have enough food for the duration of the Olympics!!

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ yesterday ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ today ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ comparison ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ thermostat ~ ~ ~ ~

Forgive me?! I intended to refrain from pictures of the thermometers. This afternoon I wanted to check temperature against the thermostat setting. Wow, big discrepancy!!

~ ~ ~ Aug. 5th (above) ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Aug. 6th (below) ~ ~ ~

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“Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back.” Conclusion: Just too hot outdoors yesterday afternoon so impossible for A/C to reach the requested seventy degrees.

IMHO, never let my little cracker-box home get hot as an oven. If it is cool during the night, the A/C may keep it cool all day?!

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At seventy-one degrees, at nine PM, it was too cool (imho)!! I climbed on the step-stool and changed the thermostat (from seventy to eighty). ~~ Experiment completed.

Inspiration!!

1. “It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth – and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up – that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”
   – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
2. “Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they started.”
   – David Allen
3. “Nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost legendary. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent.”
   – Calvin Coolidge

More… from the Positivity Blog.

“Yours truly” enjoyed a second night in the multi-purpose room of the CARE Center. Mary (a volunteer) spent the night with me(*).  ~~ Gratefully, a volunteer named Rod added the necessary muscle to help David hoist the air-conditioner up to the roof. ~~ Several problems reared their ugly heads (bewitched)!! The retailer will ship the correct thermostat (bewildered) and David will complete the project at a later date.

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“Yours truly” is extremely bothered by the heat and necessity to temporarily jerry-rigg the air conditioner installation.

Note the temperature is slowly coming down in my trailer home.

*(Lest I commit vandalism or steal something.)

Postscript, Thursday, August 4, 2016, 8:00 AM: It took hours–yesterday–to cool my trailer home. I’m glad to report, last night I slept blissful and comfortable in my own bed.

Subject closed!!

So-o-o-o grateful for a cool place to sleep last night!!

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Plants were watered, weeds were pulled (and pictures taken). Too, too hot to work in the yard and unbearable inside my trailer home. With my laptop receiving a good WiFi signal in the CARE Center, I’ve imported pictures and prepared this message.  It’s an “almost cold” seventy-two degrees in the CARE dining room.

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3:00 PM: The “overnight” package has not arrived. Even if it were on-site, obviously, far too hot for David to be working on top of my trailer home!!

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Twenty-four hours from now, this nightmare may be amusing but right now (5:30) it’s no laughing matter.