Teleidoscope

Thu, Nov 16, 2006

Apartment

Posted at 3:41 pm MST to Miscellaneous

Arrgh. 23 more nights in this apartment. That sounds shorter than 3 and a half weeks, which is important right now.

They have turned off the airconditioning for the whole building. Unfortunately, I am in an apartment on the top floor, so I get all the heat that rises from the floors below. This is fine when the weather is cold, but the weather at the moment is unseasonably warm and humid from a week of rain.

And my windows face the bus station, so if I open the ventilators I will get 1) noise (which is bad enough with the windows closed) and 2) diesel fumes instead of fresh air.

I want to be in my own house, where I control the HVAC systems and the nearest paved road is a quarter of a mile away as the crow flies.

I want Colorado, where the weather doesn't stay cloudy and rainy and humid for a week at a time.

I want my kitchen with the fan that actually vents to the outside and windows that can be opened to give cross-ventilation (even though it has been over-run by mice since the cat has been here with me). I was going to bake for a potluck at work tomorrow, but I am not sure I can stand to do it with the AC dead. This place is warm enough right now.

Tonight I'm going to finish the website cleanup I started earlier in the week for everything except the Net of Mirrors first edition pages. Those were generated by Microsoft Publisher and are both hideous and so far from standards-compliant I could spend weeks just dinking with the formatting without doing anything about the content. Oh, well, knowing how hideous they are gives me some more incentive to work on the rewrite.

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