Escape to Cold Theater

In a cruel turn of events, our swamp cooler has refused to cool more than luke-cool at best in the past two weeks, leaving us (impossibly) hotter and wetter than our brethren in Texas. Despite buying a ladder that's tall enough to reach the roof (who knew ladders were so expensive?), despite fixing multiple bits and pieces, it still lurches on, somehow impossibly wetting us without cooling us - at one point over 90 degrees inside. Thus, we've regressed to time-honored traditions: cold drinks, iced towels around the shoulders, laying around, and whenever possible, dollar movies.

*Note: This LJ entry was delayed. We now have our swamp cooler working...just in time for a cool front. The high today is 74. /headdesk