Ok, for those of you not living in Cape Town right now, let me tell you: IT IS HOT. 40C max is pretty unnatural for Cape Town I’d say, it’s not often we get these sort of temperatures. The end of February / beginning of March usually has a couple scorchers, but I can’t remember the last time we had a max temperature this high.

Fortunately my office is south facing so it never gets any direct sunlight. This of course keeps the temperatures down in summer, which is quite a blessing on days like today, but it’s an absolute curse in winter. Our office is going to turn into a fridge this winter, with more blackouts ahead the use of heaters is going to be quite limited, so I might have to get accustomed to wearing a jacket indoors (something I’ve never bothered with) :/.

There’s quite an annoyingly hot breeze blowing over me right now, and through the office in general, so it’s starting to get pretty hot in here. Only 3 hours till I can go home and be boiled alive in my room :(. Having 2 PC’s in there running 24/7 doesn’t do much for my rooms ambient temperature; though it’s quite nice in winter. I guess it’s lucky that I’ll be going to a house tonight that has airconditioning in the ceiling. Let’s hope that Eskom doesn’t decide to do anything funny again.

I wonder if the other reactor is actually up and running where it should be. I suppose it is because there doesn’t appear to be any recent news nor is there a “load-shedding” schedule. But who knows these days with our electricity supply being as unpredictable as it is.

Steak.