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Down 0.2 pounds. *sigh* But this is a case where the weekly snapshot doesn't tell the whole story. On Thursday, two days after the last weekly number, I was down two pounds. Then I got hit by a day and some of nasty detoxing effects from the fat burning, followed by a couple of days of nasty reactions to the spike in temperatures we got on the weekend. I'm coming back down from that - a graph would show a nice slope, and since I seem to have a good routine for keeping myself cool as may be right now, I expect the slope to stay down, and that the week 3 snapshot will show the overall picture better. This is like doing a mileage calculation with a flat tire. :) I also find that I've taken two inches off my thighs, and one off my chest. No change yet in waist, neck, upper arm, or calf measurements. But of those...my arms and lower legs are in pretty good shape overall, and I already knew that the belly bloat complications at waist level would likely be slowest to improve. I'm doing well on the process, too. I ate good foods in good amounts this week, and genuinely didn't feel any real urge to go do something stupid and diet-breaking. So I can keep that up, with a modification on amounts to avoid another nasty fat-burning-triggered detoxing ugh, and look for good results.

I need some advice and recommendations about cooling arrangements.

To review:

My apartment has a big continuous space at the south end - living room, dining room, kitchen. In the summer, I pretty much put the blinds down and run a big portable air conditioner to keep it at about 75 degrees F. It works.

I have one bedroom, with a smaller portable air conditioner whose exhaust hose is now mounted in the window there, and a ceiling fan. It works. A little noisier than I'd like, and with people now living downstairs there's a little extra effort involved in cooling it off, but still, no real complaints.

And I have the office, which makes me happy all the rest of the year but is being a little troublesome as summer settles in. It's go a big sliding glass door and no window. If I were to mount a portable air conditioner's exhaust hose there, I'd either have to lose use of the door for a season or re-mount it every time I use it. Neither is satisfactory. And even with my pole fan running merrily away, the room gets hotter than is good for me. (Neurological complications set in with sustained high heat.)

There are two things I could do.

#1. Get a localized cooler. I know I don't want something that works by humidifying the room. Seattle has enough humidity already. Apart from just plain fans, do I have other options of this sort?

#2. Get a compact and/or portable desk for my desktop computing stuff that could go in any room. I'm inclined to think this is the thing, unless there's a good answer to #1 I don't know about. I do have one of those neat little rolling tables that I can put the laptop on when I'm sitting in the recliner or on the couch a while, but experiment shows that it's not stable/sturdy enough for use over multiple days. It wobbles and stuff, and I end up with a kinked back trying to get good angles. 

I don't need fancy for the purpose, I don't think. Quick tape measuring suggests that a basic desk about 40" wide, 24" deep, and 29-30" high would do. Mom comments that a camp table might be the thing, and she may well be right. There are also, I see, quite a lot of reasonably nice looking lil' computer desks as well.

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