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Dude, if you're gonna get an AC unit, go get it now. For one thing, it's Memorial Day and it'll probably be on sale, and for another, come a month from now, you're either not going to find one anywhere or you'll be gouged for it since everyone will want one. It was like that in NJ with water pumps... once April came around and half the towns started flooding, suddenly water pumps wee nowhere to be found. Thus began the great Home Depot riots of 2003.

Posted by August J. Pollak at May 30, 2005 11:45 AM

AJP above is right. Same thing happens in Boston. Gotta get one now when people aren't really thinking about it, or H. Depot will be sold out and won't have them again until September. You are fore-warned. I have suffered through this...

Posted by ModSue at May 30, 2005 09:02 PM

Round these here parts, we had a scorching sumer in '03 (well, admittedly, scorching by our standards, i.e. in the high 90s or low 100s.) As AC is not yet a habit here, we all just got fans. Every single store in town had stacks of them - but sold them out in a few hours, with no possibility of restocking because these things are apparently to be ordered six months in advance. So, not to be taken unawares, last year they ordered mountains of them in January.

We had both a perfectly average cool summer, and great sales on fans everywhere.

On another note, I have the benefit of a southwest-facing corner office, with magnificent views over two mountain ranges (OK - two really big hill ranges). "Benefit" of sorts, as obviously it gets (in April already) to 90 degrees daily, what with the sun heating all four of the office's large windows. So, year-round, I must keep the (outside) blinds down, to try to get an inside temperature around 85. So much for the view - but, if I could only get just one plant to thrive here, I'd be able to feed the Third World several times over, and then retire.

Last (then I'm gone - sorry for the blogsmog), how about thicker curtains? Might they run up less of an utility bill? Or these newfangled UV-blind, light-translucent sticky panes?

Posted by LudovicD at June 1, 2005 12:41 PM

does anybody else out there have the Massive Attack singles boxed set with the awesome temperature-sensitive color-changing ink on the outside?

ha!! i do, i do! and seeing it white was the only good thing about a hot summer :P that's it, i'm getting an a/c.

Posted by sam at June 5, 2005 11:47 PM

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