Reset Forty-Nine, Day Three Hundred Ninety-Two

As I was up early to shop online Friday, after my niece brought the groceries (before noon!) I wanted to go back to sleep again, but I did remember to have her check on the spider in my bathtub, to see if she could identify it. She found a daddy long legs that I hadn't noticed, up near the ceiling, but the dark spider in the tub itself turned out to be a piece of plastic caught in a stray cobweb. I could have sworn that I'd seen the thing moving about several times over the last few days, its scrawny little legs working away, but it must have been just fluttering in the draft. Well, I did say my eyes were bad. But if I've turned a piece of black plastic (something that came off the slippers I bought from Kohl's) into a spider then my brain is also going bad. But then I also knew that already.

Anyway, I got my groceries put away and then was asleep not long after noon, and slept through the hottest part of the day. The heat did trigger some dreams, which of course were not pleasant, and in one of them I was rather horrifyingly chewing my own teeth up (not the first time I've had such a dream) and I was glad to wake up not long before sunset and, after going out to check the mailbox, settle down for an evening of air conditioning and Idernet. I was unable to open the windows and turn on the fan until near midnight, the day's heat was so persistent in clinging to night's air. The indoor low achieved by this morning was 76, which is not good, but probably better than I'll get for the next week at least. The solstice on Thursday was succeeded by the Strawberry Moon on Friday, and we're definitely stuck with summer now. I'll just try to make the best of it. Or the least awful of it.