Jesus.. My apartment wasn’t made to survive the summer.. It’s currently 26C inside, and I’m sweating to death despite having all my windows and patio door open.
I made the big mistake on Friday night of heading down to Bryght for a little party, and ending up drinking myself into a coma. I didn’t wake up until around 3pm the next day, which is surprising considering how hot it was inside.. I guess all one can really do in this heat is crack a few beers, kick your feet up, blare some music and take it all in stride..
Last night at around midnight, while in the middle of watching a pretty cool movie, the power went off in the building. As the last of the gadgets in my living room stopped beeping and whirring, I suddenly remembered a memo I received under my door a few days prior about a scheduled power outage this weekend. Oops.
I spent the next hour or so frantically trying to hack WEP keys for other wireless connections in buildings nearby, but was unsuccessful. I even tried to get my cell phone working with my Mac so I could use the EVDO to do a few things on the internet, but that was a complete bust too. So, I lit a few candles, played in Garageband, and just took it easy until the LCD on my laptop eventually flickered out and died, the battery finally drained.
Today I gathered up John and Rebecca and headed down to Ikea in Richmond for some shopping. It was a fun trip, even though I didn’t buy too many things. Some asshole honked at me in a situation where he shouldn’t really have, so I spent the rest of the trip honking at everyone else in retaliation. While at Ikea, I demonstrated my genetic Cow-Tipping ability on something that closely resembled a cow. As I told them, you really need to put your legs and back into the cow-tip, or it doesn’t work.
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Afterwards, I showed everyone in Home Depot just how you’re supposed to ride a tractor or a lawnmower. The trick is to pucker your lips and make tractor sounds while you drive it.
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A fun day, and I still have seven hours of it left. I’m going to finish a few Heineken’s here, then show everyone on a patio somewhere just how Chilliwack boys drink beer in the sunshine.
Maybe I’ll even run into some cute beer-drinking, tractor sound-making cow-girl who wants to hop on my tractor and ride with me, past the tipped-cow, into the sunset.
And there was me thinking that Cow-Tipping only existed on this side of the Atlantic!!
dude go buy one of those small in the window air conditioners. you can get a 6000 btu for like $129 at Best Buy. Will cool 500 sq ft. Sit right in front of it. Should do a good enough job during the day.
Our apartment in Kits used to be around 33C during the summer. It was cooler outside most of the time.
I loves my portable air conditioner…a thing i once vowed to never own…but damn…it’s sweet. My apartment has something funky with the heater where it will occasionally just go even tho the thermostat is set to off. I suspect mine is somehow connected to another tenant’s thermostat, and that that tenant is 300 years old and very susceptible to cold. Regardless, I got myself the air conditioner and now life is good.
Clay – open your breaker panel and flip the switch for your heater. I doubt you’ll use it in the summer, and that should solve your problem.
Heh you’re assuming i didn’t already go down that road…I did…i’m not sure what’s up with it but it’s not on my apartment’s circuit.
Happy now that it’s cooled down?