I'm not really an air conditioning person. I mean, I like having it when it's like ERMAGHERD hot but I can't sleep with it on in a hotel room or anything. Mainly the noise, but... the air smells weird, you know?
So I was surprised when I noticed an air conditioning unit sticking out of the window of a neighbour's place.
We're not really an air conditioning city, or at least I don't know many people who are? I guess some do and I just don't notice, but living and working in old buildings you just kind of get used to not having it.
Oh and it turns out? I can't get over the noise of it in someone else's window either. Sigh.
I'm getting more used to it and I know we may or may not have that many hot days this summer but I know the noise of this place and it's quiet at night. Not a lot of traffic.... quiet. So the hum of the unit is.. well, it's new, and different. And I hope to not notice it one of these days. (And I'm grateful for the cooler nights when they keep it off.)
But yeah... noisy things at night are not my favourite.
Whoops. Double Whoops!
I have an (older) Apple laptop, and some of you who do as well, may know the frustration of the charger cords. They are absolutely the weak point of these devices and constantly fray and break. Especially, it seems, for me, probably due to the angle of my cord compared to where it has to plug in and where I spend most of my time. So because this part breaks so much, I get tired of paying the $100 for the replacement I know isn't going to live all that long. Last time I got a replacement I tried to fortify the break point, but it still went. And then I ordered a slightly cheaper one off of Amazon. It didn't come from apple, but arrived with all apple branding, so... I figured it was real enough. *shrug* It frayed as well, and this time the protective coating was only slightly split so I left it for a while, intending to get some electrical tape to seal it up for a while. Which is why I was not so happy to hear and see it spark when I went to plug it in...

