Avoiding the heat: The Henry
I don’t know if you’ve heard [mb], but it’s a bit warm outside these days. (It is, in point of fact, too hot to sleep, which makes me the crankiest Metroblogger in town. Didn’t I leave Florida to get away from this nonsense?) In your search for air conditioning, you would do well to remember that the Henry Art Gallery is free until Labor Day, celebrating its 80th anniversary with 80 days of free admission. It’s open 11-5 Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and 11-8 on Thursday.
Exhibitions right now include Mouth Open, Teeth Showing, 13 works from the collection of William and Ruth True, the owners of Western Bridge, and General Idea Editions 1967 - 1995, a retrospective of the now-defunct Toronto artist collective General Idea.
Since it’s too hot to sleep it’s clearly too hot to stay awake at work–you might as well just not go and do this instead.
Don’t forget to pick up your free slurpees today at 7-11!
Have you noticed that not very many people in Seattle actually know how to keep their places cooler than it is outside? I have and it kind of irks me so I’m going to post these tips to beat the heat at home.
1) At night open all your windows and screen doors. Have a fan at one end of the house pushing out the hot air and one at the other pulling in the cooler stuff. Before you go to bed and shut your front door move the fans to circulate air around your domicile.
2) This next step is key and one most people around here mess up on. When you go to work in the morning or if you work from home when the temp starts to rise, close all screen doors, windows, whatever and then pull the curtains. Basically you want it as dark as possible.
3) Keep a bunch of fans running while its dark in there to keep air circulating.
4) Don’t open back up until the temp inside is the same as outside.
Basically you are cooling your place down and then using the insulation to keep it below the outside temp as long as possible. If you open up your place during the day it’s going to be just as hot inside as it is outside and usually warmer (insulation). I grew up on the other side of the state where we use this technique to keep our AC bills down.