JJ's busy not blogging

Posted by Chuck at 6/8/2008 3:53 PM
Categories: Family
She's on the couch not blogging in the fetal position and breathing rhythmically. She'll be that way for a few hours, I guess. She deserves it since it's her vacation and all.

We went to the local municipal water park, called Dry Town, owned by the City of Palmdale, California. It had three cool slides, including one that's a toilet flushy thing that is really fun. It has a GREAT lazy river (which is my favorite water ride genre), a nice shallow pool with a water playground in the center with fountains and dumpie buckets and rope ladders and such, and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

It's nothing spectacular, but it's close, clean, well patrolled by LA County Sheriffs, and staffed by an extraordinarily professional and attentive group of teen lifeguards. And Jesse had a blast. So did we.

I have a new favorite thing. Aunt Mary and Uncle Steve sent us a house-warming gift of a wireless weather tracking device that has a sensor that can be placed up to 100' from the display unit, providing an accurate reading of the outside temperature and relative humidity in exactly the spot you may be considering sitting outside.



As you can see, it tells inside and outside temperatures and humidity. Plus the day's average high and low. Now, imagine a day in NY in which the high was 96 and the low was 53. Wouldn't you expect there to have been a massive, destructive thunderstorm in between those two temperatures? But here that's just the daily normal pattern for this time of year.

I actually don't believe the 96, I think I have to move the reader a little because I think it gets some direct light for a few minutes, changing the actual ambient reading. I think the high has actually been about 91 or 93 lately. Maybe I'm wrong.

The thing to remember with the high temperature here is that it isn't that temperature for long, like maybe three hours or so in the late afternoon. The rest of the day it's either traveling to or from that low temperature. So even on a 99 degree day, there are more hours of 70 and 80 degree temperatures than 90 degree temperatures during the day.  Now, July and August will be just plain hot all day and most of the night, but for now and after August, it's really pretty nice.

This device feeds my need for data and information at all times; thanks Aunt Mary and Uncle Steve!

 
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