We dont just eat cake at the little Stieren house.  We also have birthday dinners, with deviled eggs. We try to keep cool, but mostly we work on learning how to live with being hot.  This means coming to terms with the fact that if you are home doing house work, or running errands in a hot little car with no AC, you will have little to no energy by 4pm, so you better have a plan for dinner.  It means drinking water and ice tea before you feel thirsty, and trying to make most decisions early in the day.  Include late-night excursions to Mexican bakeries downtown. MG told me the ancient Egyptians used to sleep in wet sheets to stay cool, but I convinced him he could hang…