Unless things change in the next two hours, I am going to miss the total solar eclipse because of overcast weather. We have had clear skies for weeks, and now today we get overcast weather.
How mean of mother nature. I'm going to go get some cans of hairspray and spray them into the atmosphere just out of spite.
So, the news said the average temperature this month (as measured at Bradley International Airport) was something like 68 degrees. Awesome. I've always wanted to have October in the middle of my summer vacation.
My roommate forgot to pay the gas bill, didn't say anything. So they shut off our gas on monday. I called up The Gas Company (that's their actual name) and asked them nicely to turn it back on since the bill has been paid. They said their schedule is full until NEXT thursday. Apparently its a big deal to come over and undo whatever they did in 5 minutes to shut it off. Now we don't have gas for another week. I never realized how much shit runs off gas in this apartment. This means:
1) No stove
2) No oven
3) No hot water (and therefore no dishwasher)
4) No dryer (WTF what kind of dryer runs on gas?)
Keep calling them until they show up. Piss them off.
No stove, oven, and hot water sucks ass, but you really don't need the dryer. Hang that shit up to dry, in the summer it only takes a couple hours. This may be a piece of Asian culture that has rubbed off on me, but there is a lot of energy to be saved if people hung their clothes up to dry instead of throwing them all in an electronic dryer.
NO! Leave the service people alone! They can turn it off in 5 minutes because all they do is stop the gas. To send gas back into the apartment without going inside and lighting the pilot lights and doing no safety checks would put your life in danger. You should be thankful that they're willing to give you any type of consideration at all after you neglected to pay them for their service and product. Don't be a whiny little bitch and keep calling for faster service. If you're a big enough pain in the ass, they might raise your priority, but that will be at the cost of some poor elderly couple who grew up in the depression and were patiently waiting their turn until some punk kid who can't live for 1 week in mild discomfort had to make such a big fuss because he thinks he's so much mroe important than all the other customers in the area.
Behemoth speaks with wisdom from the other side of the fence. Still, that fact doesn't make the situation suck any less. I'd say the biggest thing that'd trouble me would be the lack of hot water. If the stove still worked, you'd at least be able to heat some up to wash dishes in, but yeah. No stove. I'd hope you have a decent microwave and hopefully some nice friends/family.
Call every five minutes with hints of entitlement and pretentiousness in your voice.
Also, when they turn on your gas, stand around and ask lots of questions. Gas men get lonely, and they love answering all of your questions, no matter how trivial you think they are.
Oh yeah, flick lots of switches and try to help them do their job every step of the way. You'll be best friends forever.
NO! Leave the service people alone! They can turn it off in 5 minutes because all they do is stop the gas. To send gas back into the apartment without going inside and lighting the pilot lights and doing no safety checks would put your life in danger. You should be thankful that they're willing to give you any type of consideration at all after you neglected to pay them for their service and product. Don't be a whiny little bitch and keep calling for faster service. If you're a big enough pain in the ass, they might raise your priority, but that will be at the cost of some poor elderly couple who grew up in the depression and were patiently waiting their turn until some punk kid who can't live for 1 week in mild discomfort had to make such a big fuss because he thinks he's so much mroe important than all the other customers in the area.
Well okay, at least there's some kind of explanation for why they can't just come fix it. But it wasn't me that neglected to pay them. It was our friend/roommate who is in Irvine for the summer. It was set to auto-pay from his checking account, but I guess he didn't put enough money in it. He didn't bother to tell us when he got the shut-off notice, or pay it at all until we called and harassed him. I didn't even know he was the one who paid it until this happened. (I'm just here for the summer, don't normally live here.)
So I feel that I am at least a little justified in my complaining.
Well, of course you can hate the roommate. That's only natural.It takes months of non-payment and several notices before they cut you off. So he was ignoring it big-time. Cold showers really aren't so bad in the summer, though. You just have to jump right in like it's a hot shower and you'll barely notice. When you try to avoid getting wet, that's when it feels cold.
First of all, we're getting buffetted by hurricane Morakot, so the fifteen minutes I spent walking to the bus stop ensured that my entire lower half is completely soaking wet, even though I had an umbrella. But unfortunately I can't remove my pants in the office while I wait for them to dry, because that's not "professional". Even though all men know that they are ten times more productive when they are not confined by pants.
And I'm supposed to get a revision of this big assignment into the head office by the end of the day today, but I left my notebook on my desk at home, and all of my notes about revisions are all there. Poo.
I hate when you can't remember your password to something and you keep trying different passwords that you use on various websites, and then the site locks you out of your account and says "Please try again later" and you can't log back in for like 24 hours.
I just wanna pay for my parking spot before Thursday
He's an oversexed Amish werewolf whom everyone believes is mad. She's a man-hating gold-digging safe cracker who can talk to animals. They fight crime!
So, Monday was the first time I got to the beach this year, what with all the terrible weather we've had. As usual, I got sun burn. But this morning I woke up to find that I can't move my right shoulder and can only move my left shoulder a little without having my skin feel like its going to tear. When I took a closer look, I found that both were covered in little blisters. So now I probably wont be able to go do my once a week under the table job tomorrow.
Dang. I've never had a sunburn that bad, my skin is naturally an olive tone so it takes a lot for me to burn, and when I do it never peels or anything. It will feel ridiculously warm for about 24 hours, and then it turns into a nice tannish color and that's that. I was blessed to inherit my dad's skin tone. My mom burns really really easily and is in misery whenever she does. Sorry you have to go through that!
Even though I sunburn, I find that if I start wearing short sleeve shirts and shorts early on in the spring, I'll gradually build up a tan strong enough to avoid getting burned. I ride my bike for 30 minutes to and fro work every day, and that was enough to build up a tan without burning.
But I take off my shirt and I'm as white as a sheet of paper. And my skin starts to feel warm just thinking about going outside shirtless at midday.
The sun is the worst when it's at its zenith (noon-ish). That's because the radiation is hitting the atmosphere at a "straight" approach and you get more exposure. Late afternoon is the hottest part of the day because the earth is still retaining heat from high noon and the sun is at enough of a straight angle to continue heating, but there isn't as much direct radiation to burn your skin because the it's bouncing off of the ozone layer.
EDIT: to elaborate, it's the UV radiation that I'm talking about. The retained heat is infrared, I believe.
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How mean of mother nature. I'm going to go get some cans of hairspray and spray them into the atmosphere just out of spite.
1) No stove
2) No oven
3) No hot water (and therefore no dishwasher)
4) No dryer (WTF what kind of dryer runs on gas?)
No stove, oven, and hot water sucks ass, but you really don't need the dryer. Hang that shit up to dry, in the summer it only takes a couple hours. This may be a piece of Asian culture that has rubbed off on me, but there is a lot of energy to be saved if people hung their clothes up to dry instead of throwing them all in an electronic dryer.
EDIT: There are refrigerators that run on gas.
Behemoth speaks with wisdom from the other side of the fence. Still, that fact doesn't make the situation suck any less. I'd say the biggest thing that'd trouble me would be the lack of hot water. If the stove still worked, you'd at least be able to heat some up to wash dishes in, but yeah. No stove. I'd hope you have a decent microwave and hopefully some nice friends/family.
Call every five minutes with hints of entitlement and pretentiousness in your voice.
Also, when they turn on your gas, stand around and ask lots of questions. Gas men get lonely, and they love answering all of your questions, no matter how trivial you think they are.
Oh yeah, flick lots of switches and try to help them do their job every step of the way. You'll be best friends forever.
Well okay, at least there's some kind of explanation for why they can't just come fix it. But it wasn't me that neglected to pay them. It was our friend/roommate who is in Irvine for the summer. It was set to auto-pay from his checking account, but I guess he didn't put enough money in it. He didn't bother to tell us when he got the shut-off notice, or pay it at all until we called and harassed him. I didn't even know he was the one who paid it until this happened. (I'm just here for the summer, don't normally live here.)
So I feel that I am at least a little justified in my complaining.
Make do, you may learn something. And hate the roommate, not the gas company.
First of all, we're getting buffetted by hurricane Morakot, so the fifteen minutes I spent walking to the bus stop ensured that my entire lower half is completely soaking wet, even though I had an umbrella. But unfortunately I can't remove my pants in the office while I wait for them to dry, because that's not "professional". Even though all men know that they are ten times more productive when they are not confined by pants.
And I'm supposed to get a revision of this big assignment into the head office by the end of the day today, but I left my notebook on my desk at home, and all of my notes about revisions are all there. Poo.
I just wanna pay for my parking spot before Thursday
HWUJC
I wear shorts now but I tend to only go outside during the late afternoon.
But I take off my shirt and I'm as white as a sheet of paper. And my skin starts to feel warm just thinking about going outside shirtless at midday.
EDIT: to elaborate, it's the UV radiation that I'm talking about. The retained heat is infrared, I believe.
DOUBLE EDIT: Visual aid: