Friday, June 10, 2005

London broil anyone?

It's been hot in South Western Ontario. Hot, like Africa hot! But humid. Really humid, like the jungle, not that I have ever been in or near a tropical jungle, but I have watched an episode or two of Survivor.

To quote a line in Good Morning Vietnam, "Warm? No. This is the setting for London broil."

So now that I have it established that I think it's hot I'll speed up to the real issue of today. Actually the same issue I've had all week, but it's been to hot to write about it.

Last week the property owner of the building that my office is in had a crew of heating and cooling boys out to give the system a check-up. The only problem they found was an old noisy blower that didn't seem to have any function other than to make noise and blow very little air apparently nowhere. So they did what anyone would do. They removed it without telling anyone.

Well that P.O.S. little noisy blower did have a function and a very important one actually. It blow the cold air into my office. You see, my office was the result of a renovation several years ago and the tenant (my business partners) not wanting to actually spend any money to upgrade the heating and cooling system, simply had the heating and cooling contractors install an old noisy blower, which as I mentioned was removed a week ago.

SO until the heating and cooling boys come back to reinstall the old noisy blower (Yes, they are going to reinstall the old P.O.S. instead of paying for a new one) I will have to accept the temperature of my office being a London broil setting.

I wonder how bad the pickled herring I found in the staff fridge is going to smell after spending the weekend in my garbage can?

5 Comments:

At June 13, 2005 10:17 PM, Blogger Carmi said...

Cheapness always comes back to bite someone. How unfortunate that it is the cheapness of others that has caused you discomfort.

Thankfully the temps seem to be finally heading down.

Let us know how the fish thing works out.

 
At June 16, 2005 2:55 PM, Blogger Steve said...

Pickled Herring and Scotch. Arthur, you're my kinda guy.

Perhaps if fish end up in garbage cans whenever the air conditioning goes off, they'll start re-evaluating their priorities. Quick. Transfer the herring to someone else's bin!

 
At June 29, 2005 12:52 AM, Blogger Amelia said...

The pickled herring is going to be scarey... but really I'm in the middle of an arctic freeze, ok,ok so it's not arctic, but it's winter and it feels arctic, anyway my point being - I'm jealous!!!

 
At October 2, 2005 1:00 PM, Blogger jon said...

Looking for central air conditioning info I found your post. I agree!

 
At October 9, 2005 7:44 AM, Blogger Quit Smoking said...

Hello fellow fisherman,

Did you know that 16% of the U.S. population goes fishing at least 16 days a year?

Did you also know that over 75% of the nations fishermen do not fish during "prime time"; fish feeding hours?

Those precious few moments before twilight can be absolutely magical. Even up until 11pm at night, the largest predators of any species feed ravenously.

Don't believe me? Check out Daniel Eggertsen's story, and a picture of a couple of his catches here : "Evening Secrets plus more"

I want you to do me a favor and try it out so I can see what you think of it, and if it works for you as well as it did for me.

You will be one of the first to try it out.

Gone Fishin',

Neil

 

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