July 3, 2006
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Ok, I drove down to Rome this weekend. It was my first really long drive in Italy, as it was 5 hours long. I need to figure out how to disable the governor in my car. I was flooring the damn thing, it only hit 95 at top speed, and I was still getting passed form time time. While there, I went to the beach, and got to see the outside of the Pope’s residence. Not much to see here people.
Last week, I purchased a small air conditioning unit for my apartment. It’s getting over 90 degrees, and I’m sweating away the pounds, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Anyway, I purchased a unit from the PX the day that they were restocked. As I’m getting the thing loaded into my car, the worker that is helping me tells me that he just had a guy bring one of them back. I’m guessing it was just a bad unit or something.
I drive the sucker home and notice that it’s a 2 man lift, which in my case means that I can lift it myself. I really wonder where they get the calculations for lifting. 3 floors later, it’s in my apartment, and I set it up in my kitchen, since that has a standard wall exhaust port. I point it toward the door, and let it run for a 30 minutes, and when I walk back into the kitchen, it feels awesome. And I say that aloud:
“This is awesome.”
So I decide to grab a cream soda from the fridge. As soon as I step out of the stream, the room is still hot. This made no sense to me, so I tried a little experiment. I closed the shades, closed the door, and let the thing run while I went over to a friend’s house. Specifically, a friend with working AC.
6 hours later, I return to the apartment, and the room as dropped by 2 degrees C. WTF. Today I took the damn thing back, and tomorrow, I will be purchasing one from the Italian electronics store.
Black 6, out.
Comments (5)
Hi, Please have a wonderful — 4th — by the way my daughter
has been using my PC — so hey ain’t I nice. In other words I haven’t had much time to journal and read xanga stuff. I hope you find a “working” A/C unit soon. The problem here is not only the heat but the HUMIDITY!!! Cream soda? I can honestly say I “think” I have drank one?? Well, Take Care — okay you know this — be sure to drink plenty water. Have Fun! Sharon in GA — my biggest plans for tomorrow is grill out and find a watermelon!
I just found youre sight through hitting random on the blogring thing. I just want to say thank you for your service to our country.
I think their lifting ideas don’t take motivation or discipline into consideration. Everyone’s a lazy fat bastard who can’t run 20ft.
The bigass userbar is for a couple of forums, just twidling my fingers deciding which I should subject it to as not many people have the sense of humor to see my own sense of humor in that thing being so obscenely huge. My main forum is militaryphotos.net, but they don’t allow signatures and stuff. (Kind of a good thing, as those are mostly spam)
I hope Italy is interesting!
Hello, Just thought stop by. I guess being that Italy won in the World Cup things have been “fun” there? Have a great week please. Hope work is doing well for you. Sharon in GA
Love your background.
Gee whiz, thank you. You are so kind- ha. By the way the movie is really not that great. Jack seemed like he was drunk/drug in the movie. BUT I love it because it is just a really stupid funny movie. Parts of it is like Indiana Jones overall I just like the fighting scenes. Superman Return is way better. I do “hope” Part 3 will be better — with Keith Richards in it. I still love the first POTC movie. Thanks for sharing! Have a good/great week, Sharon By the way my daughters will be traveling to the Hamptons and New York the end of this month
–with their father and his new wife–she has relatives there. I hope they will have a great time–any suggestions??? Nice please sir 
Oh, did you get another A/C yet?