Springing into action [maybe]
Today is the 4th day of the 12th week, the 20th day of the 3rd month, the 80th day of 2024, and:
- Alien Abduction Day - started in 2008 at the Toronto Alien Festival
- Atheist Pride Day
- Bed-in For Peace Day - do you remember the publicity that John and Yoko got?
- Bibliomania Day
- Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
- French Language Day
- Great American Meatout
- Hufflepuff Pride Day
- Independence Day - Tunisia from France in 1956
- International Day of Happiness
- National Bock Beer Day
- National Jump Out Day
- National Kiss Your Fiancée Day
- National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- National Proposal Day
- National Ravioli Day
- Naw-Rúz - observed the 1st day of the year in the Baháʼí calendar
- Snowman Burning Day - I still do a doubletake when something from 1971 is called a tradition! Somehow it seems to me that something started during my lifetime hasn't been around long enough to deserve that hoary description
- Small Business Development Day
- Take Down Tobacco National Day of Action
- Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
- World Day of Theater for Children and Young People
- World Flour Day
- World Frog Day
- World Oral Health Day
- World Sparrow Day
- and Voyager 1 is 22h 33m 15s of light travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
"The more you can free yourself from your internalization of the gaze of others, the more liberated you feel."
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Under Your Skin”
Since my direct report is back from her three week trip to India, I scheduled myself for some free time to recuperate from stressing out over doing two jobs, to celebrate that yesterday I finally finished with the last of the 2023 reports, and to get ready for another EOQ. In addition, with this miserable rash that just won't go away, I thought some down time would be a good idea
Every time I take off, I have this grand scheme of things that I am going to get done. On the list for these five days before I have to log back in on Monday morning:
- get those flat boxes tied up
- move things around in the Disaster Area so I can walk around in there again
- get started on making the next pile of stuff to shed
It's a big job and I can feel myself getting overwhelmed every time I walk into the room. My other task is to catch up on the laundry [which is easier to do when I have space in the Disaster Area to put up the drying stand]. And I needed to walk over to the management office and find out what is going on with my HVAC unit.
To date, over the past 2 1/2 months, I have opened six different service requests for repair, and each one was closed without the issue being resolved. Finally, this last time, someone added a comment that if I had any questions, I had to talk to management. I wrote to the maintenance supervisor through the portal twice. I tried calling, but no one picked up the phone and I left a message three times. So, this morning I went and asked to speak to someone. The receptionist finally called the maintenance supervisor, who promised to come to my apartment at 11 AM. He was a little late, but he came.
The upshot? He is going to call the third party contractor who handles the heat and A/C - either my unit is bad or there is a blockage in the pipe connecting me to the riser [which is what the contractor told me after they installed the unit]. He promised to let me know when they could come in and work on it. Of course, the real questions are: [1] will he and management follow up, and [2] will the owner authorize the expense for the repair, especially if the problem in in the pipes.
I managed fine through the winter without it working. Being on the 20th floor, since heat rises, my entire place is easy to keep warm. Besides, I like sleeping in a colder room and if it got too bad, I had a space heater. But I simply cannot manage during the summer without A/C and I am more than a little annoyed that it has taken this degree of pestering the office to even get this far - and there is still no actual resolution of the problem
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