John and I are gearing up like it's war: Ice? Check! Popsicles? Check! Supersoakers? Check! Things to do inside because our shoes might melt if we go outside? Check! I'm spending tomorrow morning cooking for the weekend so we don't have to heat up the kitchen; it feels vaguely kosher somehow.
We don't have central a/c, just a wheezy little window affair that we are putting in the TV room, the teeniest room in the house. That room barely fits a couch, but the a/c will keep it semi-tolerable better than the big front rooms.
Upstairs, where it gets smokingly hot (and where we sleep), we are going with a reflection/containment philosophy. We bought a bunch of cheap cheap cheap space blankets and some rubber cement and stuck the mylar blankets over the windows and skylights. Dropped the temperature an easy five-ten degrees instantly. We'll see how it works when it's over the windows from the beginning of the day.
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We do keep the curtains open a bit where the windows are open to let the draught through. This is why all windows in Singapore are tinted. My parents never realised that you never look through a winow of any kind in Singapore without it being tinted. If we ever build our own house... 
