heat wave

Already September! In a few days I'll be 55. It is cooler today -- only 75, so far. I had an ant incursion, fairly minor, probably because I left the sliding door open until very late and there's a small opening at the bottom corner of the screen door. I went to D+T's for dinner and games last night. It was lovely to sit out in their yard the whole time, especially after T brought out ice packs for each of us.

I left work Friday with V -- we were getting off early for the holiday weekend. V was going to waste some time at SFMOMA before she met her husband for a undisclosed activity he had planned. We walked out of the climate-controlled building and into a wall of heat -- aka a heat wave. It was 103 or 104 or something like that. After I left V, I decided to walk to King St and get on the T there. As I was moving slowly along Third St, looking for shade, I saw Ashley coming toward me. What are the chances.

I have been taking pictures of the sunsets since I moved here. There have been some real beauties lately. This one above was taken on the evening of the eclipse, which I watched at work, or tried to watch through the fog. Even if we'd had a full view we wouldn't have seen all that much, given our location. But it was fun to be out on the deck with coworkers wearing funny-looking eclipse glasses. One really wonderful thing about living here is that I see so much of the sky, even when we are not having a spectacular sunset.

Yesterday the water heater cut out while I was rinsing my hair in the shower, and then it started beeping. That was alarming. I dried myself quickly and ran back to look at the diagnostic code flashing on the display panel -- 25, which means that the condensate trap is full. Huh? I pressed the off button to get the beeping to stop and then started googling. I called a couple of plumbers, looked for advice online, and eventually decided that it was probably just a system/sensor glitch. In the meantime I got acquainted with Shedrick the Plumber, who lives a few blocks away. I think I'm going to ask him to come flush the water heater -- it needs to be done once a year or so, and I don't want to do it myself.