So here we are in Minneapolis, after spending a few days in New York, visiting various friends there, and rediscovering, big time, what air conditioning is for. I had also forgotten about the THI or temperature-humidity index, and had to explain it to Peter. “You don’t have to explain it to me,” he said. “It means we’re in a steam bath.” He was grumbling somewhat. This struck me as odd for Peter, since normally he likes steambaths.<\/p>\n
“Yes,” he said, “but those I can get out<\/em> of.”<\/p>\n He had a point.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, I am increasingly starting to feel that no matter how nice a hotel room is, no matter how many fluffy bathrobes it has in it, what’s really<\/em> useful is an iron and an ironing board. No matter how much ironing you may have done at the start of a trip, sooner or later you’re going to have to do it all again…<\/p>\n [tags]Minneapolis, convention, travel, ironing, bathrobe[\/tags] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So here we are in Minneapolis, after spending a few days in New York, visiting various friends there, and rediscovering, big time, what air conditioning is for. I had also…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"yoast_head":"\n