Solar Cooking My Brain

With another day of HEAT here and errands I had to run midday, I am well on my way to solar-roasted brains. The problem, besides having really hot temperatures lately, is the air conditioning in my vehicle does not work when it's over about 90 degrees. Yeah, that's real helpful to have A/C when it's not very hot and none at all when it's scorching blazing hot as hell outside.

It has something to do with a vacuum leak or something else that would be really expensive to fix so we just keep hoping it will eventually cool off. The compressor works and my sweetie tells me it's okay to have the A/C on when I'm moving along at a good clip so that air is flowing over it. At a standstill though - at stop lights, for instance - it's bad to have it on because it could ice over and crack. That would be mega bucks to fix.

And wouldn't ya know it; I hit every freakin' stop light on my drive today. While it's technically not 100 degrees yet today (only a cool 99.5), the inside car temperature gauge was reading 113 degrees while I was stopped at the lights. With the windows rolled down, even with a mild breeze, the effect was more like a convection oven than a cooling fan. And, of course, I was next to a big smelly semi with its fume-spewing exhaust pipe right next to my window for several miles.

I haven't cooked meat for a long time, but I know roasting at a low temperature for a long time in a covered pan is supposed to yield a nice moist meat. I figure my brain, encased in my skull, has got to be pretty juicy by now. I think I'll go drench my hair and sit under the ceiling fan on high speed for a while. Hopefully the fast cooling won't make my brain get tough and dry.