Cool and Not Cool
Not cool:
It’s been in the 80s and 90s this week.
Very not cool:
Bettas can live comfortably with water temperatures up to 84 degrees. The water temperature is so high in my tank that I’ve been packing the sides with ice packs all week, just to get it down that low. Fishie seems to be ok though.
Not cool:
My apartment was sold to a new landlord, and the old landlord says that the window air conditioner belongs to them, not the apartment.
Not cool:
My new landlord is somewhere around 140 years old, and says that we don’t need an air conditioner (probably because he used to have to walk up hill both ways, etc).
Not cool:
Property management company can’t do anything since it’s the landlord’s call.
Cool:
I don’t have to pay my electric bill (the landlord pays it).
Cool:
I found a grad student who was selling two window units for $45.
Not cool:
Those window units didn’t really fit my windows, so I spent all afternoon rigging up supports and sealing the windows with trash bags.
Cool:
I eventually got both ACs installed and they work fine.
Cool:
My apartment is now livable again, and I’m keeping those things on 24/7 (enjoy your electric bill landlord).
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So weather here has been confusing me ever since I got here, as it seems that Japan’s (or at least Fukushima’s) seasons are about a month or two behind what I’m used to in the States.
In my mind I feel that it’s June and I should be burning up, yet I had to wear a long sleeve shirt when I went out last night.
It’s ok, because once the heat of summer gets going here, it gets going and is hotter than Indiana.
Our landlords/managers/rental people are giant dickasses.
Our contract states that window units aren’t allowed, but if they seem keen on removing the window unit that was there when we moved in, then fuck them.
Hrm- I’d be surprised if your contract doesn’t include window units as an apartment amenity. You probably could’ve fought that, saying that your contract goes through August, and they took over your contract, but you never changed the terms.
But I s’pose this works too.
I wonder if the new people moving in were told they’d have a window unit… the lady giving tours never seemed to know much.