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What if rain but TOO MUCH
Jul. 16th, 2023 09:35 pmZ has been away at a wedding and is coming back tonight. I think tomorrow I am going to ask him to go buy a dehumidifier because we are losing the battle with humidity in the basement to the point that water is starting to condense on the floor. (I shut the windows - I don't think they're helping with 98% humidity, and also we are about to get hit with smoke again - and am trying to get the box fan to do, like, anything to help except shove damp air around.)
I remember looking at the weather forecast in June and going yay, it's looking rainy! And now here in July it's so much rain that my tomatoes are unable to support themselves because they're so droopy. And it's so damp. Z was complaining about the house smelling like 'garbage' the other day - unfortunately an unhelpful complaint, because his 'garbage' covers a lot of smells and also he couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from - and I ended up scrubbing and disinfecting half the kitchen in eventually successful efforts to help because everything is so prone to mold right now.
Today's skating lesson was a little overwhelming in how much detail we were covering, but my coach did make me try to do jumps (but they were very very bad). Boot issues do not help, so I will try to remember to hairdryer them yet again. I swear, I am about ready to take a craft knife to these things. ...maybe I'll try it out on my rollers, they're a less expensive Edea and I don't use those as much anyway.
In happier news, That Coach has been tempbanned from our main rink, so we can still have our normal lessons there. It is apparently not the first or third time he's been tempbanned from local rinks. We were talking about it after the group lesson yesterday, and some of the older skaters have witnessed him behaving poorly before and he has had SafeSport complaints against him (which haven't done anything; I continue to be unhappy that SafeSport is not funded properly), including very recently. He apparently also charges near-TCC prices despite not being nowhere near their teaching quality and, you know, screaming at random people on the rink like he owns the place.
(I also accidentally stole my coach's car keys yesterday! They got into the side pocket on my backpack somehow - I think maybe they fell when we were getting the off-ice gear in or out of his bag, and mine was right next to that bag. Unfortunately, I neither knew they were his nor realized they were there until I was packing today, but he was very happy to have them back.)
I remember looking at the weather forecast in June and going yay, it's looking rainy! And now here in July it's so much rain that my tomatoes are unable to support themselves because they're so droopy. And it's so damp. Z was complaining about the house smelling like 'garbage' the other day - unfortunately an unhelpful complaint, because his 'garbage' covers a lot of smells and also he couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from - and I ended up scrubbing and disinfecting half the kitchen in eventually successful efforts to help because everything is so prone to mold right now.
Today's skating lesson was a little overwhelming in how much detail we were covering, but my coach did make me try to do jumps (but they were very very bad). Boot issues do not help, so I will try to remember to hairdryer them yet again. I swear, I am about ready to take a craft knife to these things. ...maybe I'll try it out on my rollers, they're a less expensive Edea and I don't use those as much anyway.
In happier news, That Coach has been tempbanned from our main rink, so we can still have our normal lessons there. It is apparently not the first or third time he's been tempbanned from local rinks. We were talking about it after the group lesson yesterday, and some of the older skaters have witnessed him behaving poorly before and he has had SafeSport complaints against him (which haven't done anything; I continue to be unhappy that SafeSport is not funded properly), including very recently. He apparently also charges near-TCC prices despite not being nowhere near their teaching quality and, you know, screaming at random people on the rink like he owns the place.
(I also accidentally stole my coach's car keys yesterday! They got into the side pocket on my backpack somehow - I think maybe they fell when we were getting the off-ice gear in or out of his bag, and mine was right next to that bag. Unfortunately, I neither knew they were his nor realized they were there until I was packing today, but he was very happy to have them back.)
