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  1. OurJud

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    Only if you’re rich. There’s never been any call for them over here, least not residentially because this Florida-like humidity is new for us.
     
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  2. Iain Aschendale

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    Rzero Reluctant voice of his generation Contributor

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    Speaking of Florida-like heat, mine has Micky Mouse on it, because I bought it at Disney World.
     
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    No, but I’ll be buying one if I see them anywhere.
     
  5. Iain Aschendale

    Iain Aschendale Lying, dog-faced pony Marine Supporter Contributor

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    After two years, I've just shaved off my beard.

    I keep it quite closely trimmed anyway, so I can be back to "normal" in a week or two if I choose, but I just got bored and cut it all off.

    Feels weird, but I imagine Mrs. A will be happy. She likes the way it looks but not the way it tickles.

    We shall see.

    plus I've had this one damned mutant ingrown hair on my chin for, like, ages. Gonna find and excavate that sucker tomorrow like I'm Jada Kennedy!
     
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    Just seen the strangest thing. It was a pigeon laid down on a bed of broken slate outside a house. It had its right wing lifted up in the air. At first I feared the worst - that it was injured and I’d not be able to help. Then I wondered if it was already dead and the breeze was catching the wing and lifting it. When I approached for a closer look it was apparent it was still alive - eyes open, blinking - and then lo and behold it stood up, walked away a little and took flight!

    Heaven knows what it was doing.
     
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    We have them, but the portable ones you can get aren't very cold. They go down to 18 degrees, which is a bit pointless. Only offices tend to have installed air conditioners.
     
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  8. Homer Potvin

    Homer Potvin A tombstone hand and a graveyard mind Staff Supporter Contributor

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    Window units grow on trees here. Even the extremely poor have like 4 of them.
     
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  9. Iain Aschendale

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    Each room needs a separate unit here, no such thing as residential central air. That's $400-1000 installed per room, four rooms in my place so I've only got it in the bedroom.
     
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    For a window unit? Jeepers. Like $100 here if you're smart and get them in the off season.
     
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    They seem to be a requirement for singlewides.
     
  12. Rzero

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    You can only get the small ones that cheap here in the winter when all the meth heads pawn their air conditioners. A bigger one like you need for a living room in Texas is $350 easy, $500 new in the summer (which is when they break.) Central is completely standard here except in low rent neighborhoods, which means I have window units, of course.
     
  13. J.T. Woody

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    just got home... today was a day.
    I took out the fixings for spaghetti, but I just dont feel like doing anything other than just laying here on the couch. maybe I'll listen to some Weird History videos and just be done with the day.
     
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    In bed with candles on ( incase theres a power outage ) cats cuddled up at the bottom of the bed.

    About to listen to Lee Childs The Hard Way. Used ma free kobo token.
     
  15. Malisky

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    Thinking hard, thinking deep. Should I or shouldn't I go somewhere far away and beautiful for some days? So far I've achieved tremendous well economy with barely covering the most essentials. Lazy living has its ups too. I've been lately telling people to hang in my place or go for a night stroll, beer from the kiosk in hand, hang in other people's homes, eating home cooked meals, skipping haircuts, dentists and generally check ups, so... I've made it. :p I'm about to buy my first phone ever. 'Til this day I've been switching between old phones from friends and family. Never once bought one. It was never considered essential enough for me so I didn't mind so much. Well, things change and my iphone4 has been threatening me with suicide for some time now. May it rest in peace. It taught me patience and perseverance. Next stop is a brand new pc and yes, I can see this happening pretty soon too. :D Next is camera but this will take a while more. The mediocre good ones, the value for money ones are pretty expensive. A crappy thing about living here is that tech stuff are ridiculously overpriced.

    Anyways! I was thinking about Acherontas river. The gates of Hades.
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  16. Iain Aschendale

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    Far be it for me to argue with your forebears, but that doesn't look as menacing as I would have expected :)
     
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    I think that the ancient ones didn't think of death the same way as people did post-christianity. There was no hell or paradise. It was merely a resting place. The only ones that feared and revolted against going through this trip were the ones that had business left in the middle. Just like the ancient Romans, the old, retired generals went to Pamukkale, because they believed that if they died there they'd go straight into their perfect resting place. Perhaps because they believed it was a perfect resting living place as well.
     
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    Go.
    I've been on a trip like this twice. Once at 19, whitewater rafting. It was a blur of adrenaline, paddling for your life, drunken nights, and heavenly beautiful days. I thought I would never see anything like it again.
    At 52, I decided to take my 14yr-old son and my brother to Gold Country, at the American River. It was a hope to get back some of that previous experience and share it with my son. I was to discover it was the same exact place, with a different name and a bit rustic after thirty years, but the adventure was better! No blur this time. Lots of pictures, bonding, and memories I'll never trade for anything in the world.
    Go. :)
     
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  19. Iain Aschendale

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    Just if you meet a young boy with surprising musical skills at the start of your journey...


    ...reconsider. :)
     
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    Nope, just a lot of great folks. The guides cooked for us every night, including appetizers like mini-bread topped with tomato, fresh mozzarella, and basil leaf. Unforgettable.
     
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    We don't really have window units here. For starters, windows are always built (in my experience in the three apartments I've lived in, my inlaws' house, and the several places I've visited) on the same hardware as a sliding patio door, just smaller and not as low to the floor. Great for airflow but you couldn't do the classic "shut the window on the unit, extend the sliders on the side" thing. Japanese residential air conditioners are wall units that mount up towards the ceiling, and the buildings are constructed with kind of pipe (sealed with putty if you don't have AC in that room) for the tubing to go outside to the actual heat pump thingamajig. My apartment has those in both bedrooms and the living room. Bedroom #1 and the living room would have their heat pumps placed on the balcony (there are present bolts to suspend units from the balcony above or you can have them place on the floor of the balcony) and bedroom #2 has a steel rack installed outside the window to hold a heat pump.

    Here's an advertising shot of what you end up buying:

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    Here's what it looks like inside your home. A nice stock photo of one being installed:

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    And here's an unrelated shot of the actual cooling unit on some traditional roof:

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    Yep. My new house has three of those. Townhouse we're leaving has massive overhead pipes and duct work. Forced air for both hot and cool. Fucking sick. The only thing I'll miss about this place is the HVAC... holds a perfect 69 degrees year round for only $150 a month, which ain't bad for 1400 sq ft and 20 foot ceilings.
     
  23. Iain Aschendale

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    20 foot ceilings? Oughta measure a building like that in cubic feet...
     
  24. Homer Potvin

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    20 might be conservative. It's one of those converted brick factories that sat empty for 40 years until somebody realized they were worth $500 million in gentrified apartments. Seriously... I could finance a BMW 7 series with the money I'm saving by becoming a home owner. My wife was like what happens if we buy a house and the roof caves in? I'm like it's still cheaper than paying rent in a modern American North East city!
     
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    The young boy with a flute needs to look after his grooming a bit, but otherwise seems nice enough.
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