*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> Ah but I'm talking the outdoor vending machines only.  Wont find 
 CS> generics in there.

MK> Sounds the same as here except the brandnames are different.

Well, we have Pepsi or Coke as one of the options out of some 35 or so
things. ¨Whats really neat is the serve hot begerages too in a can.  Some
sort of warmer ¨unit involved.

 CS> the Japanese do not always follow a 'q' with a 'u').

MK> Hm.  Isn't a Daquari (with 'u' attached) an achoholic beverage?

This one is a drink that is mostly water and electrolyte replacements. 
Cloudy ¨white looking and very good.  Gatoraide is bad.  Daqari is good. 
Pocari Sweat ¨is best .

 CS> summer!  You live so much more north!  Tht 40-43C is 105-110F!!!

MK> It doesn't hardly ever get that hot here on the Island but inland it i
MK> known to happen quite often, even further north then I am (sitting on
MK> the 49th parallel as we speak).  On the Flatlands 40C isn't that uncom

Ah, then you are talking the 'occasional' while i was talking a real live
daily ¨*average* where for 2 months it wont drop under 35C even in the dead
of the ¨night.

MK> in the so-called summer months.  I am not sure, but I'd say that from
MK> June to early August, the Flatlands probably averages in the higher 20
MK> and quite possibly 30C or so.  It can be hot and dry there, even at ni
MK>  Around here 40C isn't that common but it can and does happen.  Yester
MK> I heard it got up to 31C and it definetly felt that hot.  However bein

Hehe had a cool wave hit.  It's only 32C just now.  It's all relative to
what ¨you are used to though.  I cant imagine -40F in my wildest dreams and
do not ¨want to!

 CS> the base calls 'double black flag' (115F, no PT allowed outdoors 
 CS> unless it's bicyling to and from work).

MK> Ouch!!!  Too hot for this cowboy.

Too hot for us just now, but give us 3 weeks and we are ready for it and
can ¨safely go jogging if we want to in it.  Me, I do not jog much anyways
and ¨seldom in heat like that.  Riding a bike though is cooler than walking
as you ¨create your own breeze so unless 'speed biking' (racing) it's
actually more ¨comfortable.

 CS> Right now we average (I still think more in F but trying to adapt as 
 CS> I know where you live it's C) low 90's F.  35-38C roughly.

MK> That is still to warm for me.  I prefer 18-22C range which is rougly 7
MK>  That is perfect.

I'm not saying we enjoy it .  We just get used to it and
continue on as ¨normal.  We actually count temps out here locally by water
bottle.  Today is a ¨mere 1 water bottle an hour.  Later, we hit 4 per hour
(8-12oz bottles).  The ¨biggest mistake folks from cooler climates make, is
to not drink water (or ¨daqari/Pocari sweat which is better) when they
encounter heats like this.  ¨Drink enough and you are just hot.  Dont drink
enough, and you die.

It would be hard to walk more than 1/2 mile here and not find one of the
¨vending machines for drinks.

MK> Fall?!?!?!?!  Is that a Japanese thingy?  ;-)

MK> There is a brief one here too.  You can tell because some of the local
MK> trees know when to shed their leaves and one sees quite a few rakes co
MK> out of hiding.  Other then that, fall is like summer here.

Hehe our 'fall' is the time when it's cooler, oft 22C, lasts about 1 month
to ¨my feel but actually that is because I'm not into 'cold'.  Granted true
'cold' ¨here is a mere 3 months (at or near freezing water temps).


 CS> severe a climate as Siberia, but quite cold in winter).  Nothernmost 
 CS> part has what would qualify as 'winter' to many of us for 5 months of 
 CS> the year.

MK> Sounds like the rest of inhabited Canada.  The Flatlands might be long
MK> though, perhaps around 7 months.  I haven't been there for awhile so i
MK> might have changed since then but when I lived there I swore it was mo
MK> winter.  Definitely the predominant season.  Fall was like three hours
MK> there and then straight into winter ... again!!!  Stinkin' winter.

I didnt like riding my bike to work 3 miles in 'winter'.  Got snowed on
more ¨than once.
                                       xxcarol

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