Caught In The Whirlwind
Posts tagged heat
Turn Up The What??
Jan 10th 2008
I did something last night I thought I would never do…ask my landlords to turn the heat up.
Since I'm renting part of their house, they've got the thermostat on their side of the building. Normally this isn't a problem because they're older individuals who like to keep the temperature pretty high. Recently though they've switched to a pellet stove for heat and it's been a little colder on my side, which isn't that big of a deal because it was usually too warm anyway.
But yesterday it was freezing. There was a pretty good cold wind blowing which was probably the cause since it was blowing at my side of the house. That was combined with a power outage earlier in the day which shut all the heat down. So when I returned from work, it was about 60F in there which is cold, even by my standards. I had hoped it was going to warm up a little bit more after I got back from dinner (Wassy came over yesterday for some mid-week stuff. Guitar Hero/Anime watching) and decided not to worry about it. But then I got back and…still cold.
She turned the heat up after I asked and all was well again. Warmed up pretty quickly after. But I figured I would chronicle the first (and possibly only time) I've ever had to (or ever will have to again) mention that it's far too cold in my apartment.
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Soulsucking After Vacation Monday
Nov 26th 2007
Mondays after a 4 day weekend are horrible. Which is why I refuse to answer today's Vox Hunt question. Because there's nothing good about Monday.
It started when I got up this morning. You see, my landlords are switching to a pellet stove for heat generation and they switched their side of the house yesterday and were going to do mine today. So, it got a bit chilly in there by the time I woke up. Nothing major, it was only down to 68 or so, which I'm fine with. But the fact that they're going to be coming into my place to do some work means I needed to clean up a little bit which is exactly what I want to do first thing in the morning.
I finished doing that and getting ready for work. I then made my lunch since I'm trying to not go home for lunch quite so much since my car doesn't get 30MPG anymore and gas prices shot up pretty quick there. Even though I live about 10 minutes from work, that travel adds up, so I'm trying to be better about staying in. Of course…I forgot my lunch on the counter as I'm walking out the door. Grrr…
And at the moment, I'm at work fighting with stuff that doesn't seem to want to work at all. And tonight I was supposed to go over to my partner's place to work on the Software Engineering project that's coming due in a couple weeks but he ended up having to work tonight.
Man, I miss that 4 day weekend.
Too Hot To Think Up A Subject
Aug 3rd 2007
You may have noticed I changed my blog theme. That's because it's been so hot out the past few days, I've decided to try and trick myself into believing it's cooler with penguins and icebergs. I don't think it's working.
It got up to at least 90 yesterday, probably a little higher and it's going to do the same thing today too. Last night I escaped to my friends place which was much, much cooler than my apartment was. We went out to dinner and then did some more music listening. I also played with their cat some. I want a cat someday…Well, I actually want their cat (or a clone of their cat) but, it'll probably be a while before both things are actually possible. In any case, going over to their place last night made yesterday feel like Friday, which it wasn't. So now I feel like I'm working on the weekend and, since we're planning on going out to Syracuse to the Zoo this weekend, well…today is going to crawl by too.
I also spent some time yesterday reorganizing my facebook profile since another one of my friends uses the site that I didn't know about, so I figured now that I have 3 friends, I'd spruce the place up a little bit. There's an awful lot of face book apps out there these days.
That's about all there is to report for now…I promise penguin pictures when I get back. Higher quality penguin pictures considering I now have an actual (although broken) camera.
Too…Hot…
Jun 27th 2007
It's entirely too hot out right now. Yesterday it got up to something like 92F and humid. I didn't want to cook anything for dinner in my apartment (it was already 80ish in there when I got home from work) so I managed to tag along with my parents to go out to eat.
Then I got back home and it was 83 and the temperature wouldn't go down at all. So as of the time I left this morning, it was 78F and rising indoors.
Luckily I have class tonight so I don't have to stay there long.
Not wanting to do anything that involved, well, moving, I dug into my accumulating stack of Netflix movies and pulled out My Cousin Vinny which was a recommendation from my friends. Pretty funny. However, every time I saw Joe Pesci on the screen, the only thing I could think of was his misguided singing career since last week I saw something on VH1 about awesomely bad career moves. Why Joe? Why?!?
No Air Conditioning…
Oct 30th 2006
The power is back on. The air conditioning, however, is not. If you’re wondering why this is a problem in late October, well…the room I’m in has about 8 laptops/desktops and 1 server in it. These computers, plus the people, put out a lot of heat, so it could be the middle of winter and without the AC it’d be 90 in here. It’s quite amazing.
Something with the power outage this morning messed up the AC, so now it’s 80 degrees and still climbing. Not sure what happened. The hallway is much cooler than our room here. It’s going to be a looong day.
At least I can actually get stuff done now though
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