I was battling the Deutsche Bahn until today, who wouldn’t let me cancel the two monthly passes for my PIC and me on the same date (June 30), and took 49€ out of my account for July. Uh, no.
Peanuts compared to this, but it was a lot of back & forth with them as well. It’s a full-time job to keep your money these days, regardless of how little one has 
100% Agree!!
Totally broken.
I hear B on a regular basis on the phone with his patients, helping them navigate lower costs/getting insurance to foot the bill for tests that he thinks are necessary. Definitely don’t pay without questioning (which people like my mom do). I wonder if your PCP could help.
Oh, our PCP is utterly useless. I’ve seen nurses that are more competent than that person.
But my oncologist is awesome, so maybe she can do something 
Got me beat by 2 degrees. Keeping all the windows and doors shut during the day. Inside temp is high 70’s. Without air conditioning.
Ouch! Your poor garden.
I can beat @shrinkrap because as you can see, these are the forecasted temperatures here in the Spring Valley area of Las Vegas (just a bit west of the strip). But I still take long walks, albeit VERY early in the morning. I’ve walked an average of 11.31km/7.03mi the past 5 days.
BTW, that 119°F would be an all-time record high temperature for ANY date here in Las Vegas.
Those low temps don’t look conducive to even a morning walk 
I commend your dedication to those long walks.
Thank you. Until this week early morning temps were in the high 70s when I would leave the house and be in the low 80s upon return. Now they start in the mid 80s when I leave and approach 90°F when I’m getting back.
And I always love when people say “but it’s a dry heat.” Hot is hot!
Yeah, I walk daily but I do it at the gym if it’s going to be 85 or over.
I have decided to let two new plants go, as they have struggled daily. The tossers. 
( I’ve been watching a lot of Britbox but I wasn’t sure if using “wankers” was in poor taste. )
ETA @gaffk , I am in my way to Dallas, where I worry hot is hotter.
Tossers works 
We’re not nearly as hot here in Philadelphia, but it’s hot enough to have done a good deal of damage to my herb garden. Somehow the raspberry bush out back continues to thrive, but the birds aren’t happy when humans start stealing their food
I lose interest quickly if I walk indoors. I did a few long walks in shopping malls when I was in Bangkok because streets in many areas there are not conducive to walking and the air quality is often poor there. But I didn’t enjoy those walks at all
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Have you tried Audible? I have listened to so many books that way. Public libraries have an app too. Mine uses Libby. My tablet also lets me stream just about anything, so sometimes I use the gym if I’m in the middle of binge watching some series.
So how do you keep cool?
That is beyond keeping cool; it is about how does one not spontaneously combust! I am always fascinated that in many places, summer is considered “the good weather”. 
LOL I think you would have been rolling your eyes if you were to have overheard the conversation my husband and I had this morning during our daily walk. We were discussing whether or not we will walk during the upcoming heat wave which for us will mean our morning temps will be about 70-75degrees. This morning it was more like 63 degrees, and we were both wishing we had walked a little earlier. We decided that we will alter our normal walk which is on our black asphalt road and walk on one of our nearby dirt trails instead.
dry heat… hot is hot
Past 100, it’s all too hot, true, but that 85-90 range is, well, not pleasant, but somewhat endurable, for as long as it takes to walk across the parking lot, anyway, out here on the west coast.
That same 90 degrees in Chicago with 95% humidity makes it feel like a steam room the minute you open a door.
