Just a mini glimpse inside the house to show the atmosphere from passive cooling techniques such as shades on the windows. The rain over the past few days has cooled down the house a lot, it was like 73° inside of here last night. But I’m afraid our rain chances are getting burned away, i see the thick clouds from this morning are burning off — BUT im still hoping & praying! I hope we still have our rain window today — there is some chance according to my app.
Anyway! If your house or apartment doesn’t have awnings or fancy shutters, never fear, there’s all sorts of DIY stuff like what I have at our house. Most of this fabric wasn’t even purchased at the thrift shop, it was free. Because people are always throwing stuff away.
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PS. I don’t know why these darn things always end up starting with my face, I try to show pretty trees and books to start the video but it always ends up starting with some dorky expression frozen on my face lol. Oh well, hopefully this will motivate more people to navigate their shyness and put out their message to the world.
PPS. In the video I said sorry for my ugly wrinkly face. But I actually don’t believe that in real life. I quite honestly am happy with how I look! But some thing about seeing myself on video just brings out some other squicky reaction in me. I think it’s probably the feeling that one is obligated to self-monitor one’s facial expression and the angle of the light — an obligation which is very counterproductive to spontaneity and flow and sharing information. The same thing comes up when I am trying to give a public talk via zoom as opposed to in person. And I’m only doing them by zoom now for various reasons so it does come up.
PPS. Update 11:30 AM: it actually ended up starting to sprinkle and then the raindrops got fatter and it’s now fat gentle rain. Very nice and sweet on this Monday morning! Keeping the house cool down and that will be possibly a fourth totally sweat-free night even under my extreme “low-footprint living test laboratory” conditions of zero air-conditioning and zero electric fans!! (The housemates & guests can use electric fans in summer, and little space heaters in winter, if they choose.)
Unfortunately I posted this video on my personal page which I don’t share publicly. And I don’t seem to be able to download it and then re-upload it to my public page. If I do, I will post the link here so you can watch the actual video.