May 4--The temperature's fine, but....

[zyzyly]

I opened my office this morning and was met with the most delightful coolness. It was about 72 degrees. I guess my email to the dean paid off. They actually fixed the air conditioning.

Once the air started flowing, so did water, and the classroom across from my office now has a saturated ceiling, and the tiles are falling to the ground. The maintenance guy, who just seems to delight in everything bad that happens in the building, noted that "It's like a waterbed up there!"



The dean came around later to see if my office was cool enough, and to take a look at the classroom. I mentioned to him that when it comes time to demolish the building, we won't have to hire a crew--the building will just collapse on its own.

I'll miss that building--it's where I went to nursing school, but I will be happy to have something new.

After I got off work, I played Ingress for a while. I drove down to the town below ours to attack some blue portals and create some links. Moments after I did, someone from the blue side came along and recaptured them. I went back and captured them again, but by then he had moved on to my town and captured a bunch of the portals I had been linking to. I followed and eventually recaptured them. It was actually a lot of fun, and at the end we chatted a bit. I love level 7. It is fun to figure out what it will take to take down an enemy portal, and whether I have enough stuff to do it, and if it is worth it.

I ended up walking about 16000 steps in the process. Now I am kind of sore.

While I was walking in the park, I saw a bunch of the guys who sail the model yachts. They were all lined up on the pier like a bunch of kids, playing with their boats.

Comments

[anita-margarita.livejournal.com]

Back in the late 1980s when I still worked at my old building (which had previously held a TB sanitarium and morgue), some water started dripping from the ceiling (acoustic tile, like in your photo). When someone took the tiles down to have a look, they found a very, very old painter's roller tray FILLED with the most awful water & scum you ever saw. It had delicately balanced on the support bars since, I guess, the 1970s or so.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Haha wow!

My grandma spent 6 months in a TB sanitarium back in the 1930s in Marin County. She lived 60 years longer.

[katbyte.livejournal.com]

What are portals? Creating links? I don't understand what that is all about. Then they recapture them? I am clueless,

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

It's a phone/real world game called Ingress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

"video game" lol

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Well, in the grand scheme of things, that's not completely inaccurate.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I guess not, actually. I do love that it is paired with real life locations. I get to see all sorts of places in my own back yard that I never even knew existed.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Especially strange civic artwork.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

What he said. It is an app game on the phone. You are part of a team, and you walk around town finding portals, and getting stuff out of them and capturing them. It is all virtual. It encourages you to get out and walk and meet people.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Man, that building is most definitely on its last legs, but I'm glad you're not being baked anymore.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Now my office mates are complaining that it is too cold. I love it!

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

I think I'm with them. I wouldn't be happy with 95F, but I'd be pretty happy with 85F.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

The hospital I work at is a similar age. We had a freak hailstorm a few weeks ago. All the hail piling up and then quickly melting really revealed the weaknesses in the roof.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

You work in a small rural hospital, right? Not much money to fix roofs.

One of my doctoral classmates lives in northern Idaho and is doing her doctoral project on introducing evidence-based practice to critical access hospitals. I think it is such a great project.

[thoughtsbykat.livejournal.com]

Glad you got a/c but oh no about the water.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

well, yeah. But at least I'm comfortable. lol