1) How fortunate that, one week before a heat wave is to begin, my new HVAC system was completely installed. After 20.5 years, including 5.5 past its scheduled obsolescence, this long-contemplated project has successfully concluded.
2) You can always tell when a heat wave is coming because the MBTA sets the air conditioning in all the subway cars to Morgue.
2a) New HVAC or not, I came into town to try to get some writing done at the Athenaeum. A change of scene is helpful.
3) Most everyone knows the song “We’re Havin’ a Heat Wave, a Tropical Heat Wave” but the singer whose interpretation of it I love the most is . . . Edith Bunker. Alas, Archie could only take so much and cut her off!
3a) There doesn’t seem to be a clip of it on the internet that I can find!