sleeping in the living room
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-seven years and one million words
Our bedroom has no air conditioner. Which is a problem, now that it's hitting 35ºC.
Kenny's room has an A/C unit, but it's never worked terribly well and it causes the air to stink. So we don't use it. Needless to say, all three of us have been losing a lot of sleep recently.
Finally on Monday, Mari decided to have someone come in and give the A/C unit in Kenny's room a cleaning and while he was here he looked at the one in the living room as well. We've used that one in the past two years, but never more than intermittently because it also never really worked very well.
¥20,000 later, and we finally have functioning air conditioning. I don't know how the previous tenants lived, here, but we were lucky in that the past Summers were a bit more moderate than in previous years. Not so this year, and Kenny finally had had enough last night. He declared, "atsui!" when we tried to take him to bed, and demanded that he sleep in the living room.
Recognizing the futility of trying to go on any further without A/C at night, we let him drift off on the coach and then prepared his bedroom for all three of us. As it's the smaller of the two rooms with an air conditioner, we figured it would be best to only pay to cool that small room.
Results were mixed. It was cool enough to sleep, but it was crowded and cramped. At one point I got up to get the rub on stuff for a mosquito bite (how do the damn bugs get into a sealed room?) and accidentally tapped Kenny's head with my foot. He'd crawled out of bed and had decided to lie at our feet.
Three good things that happened today:
1. Arranged a meeting with the first candidate investor in our little business
2. The fish are responding well to the cold inserts I've put in their aquarium
3. I've been doing some fascinating reading on search engine marketing, really interesting stuff