damn hot now!

ok!
this am i woke up at around 6.
i don't know what i was thinking but i got out of bed, put on my flip flops, then walked over to the other room and went back to sleep.
i was too hot. the A/C has been on in the other room so i went in there because for some reason the bedroom is hotter than the rest of the house. (this could be because we shut the A/C off at night).

Yesterday, I noticed that the power kept going out but ostanine has this generator regulating thing set up so that certain things stay on (computers, xbox, etc). I thought it was because of the xbox or something like that because i only noticed it the day we hooked it up, but I guess i was wrong!

So when the weather gets hot here, those with the means, migrate to the islands. We're going over to Aegina this evening. That  means I get to start packing again! So for a while, I will be in Perdika, not Piraeus. I wonder if there's a carrying case available for the xbox.

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Heat, floods wreak havoc across Europe

Boys jump into the Bosphorus to cool themselves in Istanbul yesterday as temperatures soared to 43.2 degrees Celsius in the city yesterday

ATHENS: Dozens of people across southern Europe perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain. In Greece, authorities said yesterday that the longest heatwave in the country’s history had killed five people, but media put the heatstroke death toll at least 10 people.

“The weather conditions have been unprecedented, we have never had a heat wave lasting for eight straight days,” development ministry general secretary Nikos Stefanou told private Flash Radio.

Athens on Tuesday registered heat up to 46.2 degrees Celsius (115.16 degrees Fahrenheit) in the western district of Nea Filadelfia, the highest since recordings there began in 1955, the national weather service said yesterday.

National power consumption on Tuesday meanwhile set an all-time record at 10,496 MW, the Greek state-owned public power corporation PPC said yesterday, reporting several serious power outages in the capital.

Large sections of the capital were without electricity yesterday because of power transformer malfunctions in several districts, including areas near the port of Piraeus and the populous municipality of Peristeri.

The PPC has 200 crews working around the clock across the capital to remedy the problems, the company said.
“It was a miracle, the grid handled tremendous demand,” Stefanou told Flash.

“The distribution network in some areas in Athens was built to handle population loads only a fifth of what they are today.”
Dozens of wildfires have broken out in rural areas of northern, southern and central Greece and threatened homes before being brought under control.
The fire risk remained high however in several parts of the country, where the heatwave is expected to abate from today.

from the Gulf-Times.com
Published: Thursday, 28 June, 2007, 03:29 AM Doha Time

to perdika with steveDG

During stevedietgoedde's visit to Piraeus, we ended up spending a couple of days on Aegina.
This is the video he edited together.
The boat ride over looks bouncy here, but it really wasn't. At least not when the camera was on.
That's ostanine at the wheel and J in the green shirt.
We landed at the little port in Perdika then got settled in.
The next day we visited Temple of Aphaia. That's me trying to be a photographer.
Then we took a trip to check out the place where stevedietgoedde would be shooting his new muse (ostanine) later. hopefully construction will be finished soon. it's where we'll stay when mistress_sandra and harald come over to visit.
It's a little noisy (the video).

here's a photo taken by stevedietgoedde during our stay.
(i posted a behind the scenes version shot by ostanine of this before).


perdika, aegina, GR

offline time

ok
time to pack up the computers.
the guys are here to take the stuff to the island
aiyaa!

let's see how long i'm kept from being online!