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I'd take ice from the freezer, carry it up to my small attic room, and put it in the swamp cooler my parents gave me that was on my desk by the small open window.

The problem, on reflection, now that I know about thermodynamics, was the freezer/refrigerator was in the kitchen, that was directly under my room. The freezer put out heat of course, which I didn't know or recognize but I certainly remember thinking the swamp cooler didn't do all that much.

I may have gotten a small amount of cooling from the evaporation of the water, but I recognize now that it was extremely inefficient to be running the refrigerator below my room.

That room was always hot.

I drove by the house where I grew up a few years ago; the new owners extended it quite a bit and seem to have put in a central air system.

They needed it.

I was always covered in sweat in that room. Damn it was hot.

In my late adolescence, early teens, my parents bought an above ground swimming pool, one of those four feet jobs. For a few years I'd jump in it, but it got boring.

When I was old enough to drive; it was the beach. There were always available beaches on Long Island, and the question was North Shore or South Shore.