> get lamp

It's 78 degrees in here and the heat is still on. WHY THE FUCK IS THE HEAT ON. IT'S ALMOST 70 now, 2 hours later, ALMOST 73 OUTSIDE. I remember being told once that the HVAC in this building was controlled by outside temp*, not inside temp, which I always thought was dumb, but APPARENTLY IT'S NOT THAT EITHER.

This has been going on for something like two months. I'm sure it's appropriate for the heat to run in the early morning, maybe even until 9 or 9:30. But when I come in at 11 it's been averaging 75 degrees and then the heat's been staying on all afternoon until the whole system switches off at 5:00. Except Monday when it was warm and it actually seemed to switch to vent if not actual a/c sometime in the early afternoon and I was like oh well maybe it'll work properly now maybe they just have it set for the rest of the building (which is often unreasonably cold in many places, don't get me wrong - the HVAC in this building is ill-designed) but it's as warm as that today and THE HEAT IS STILL ON.

Did I mention that this is after some Plant Services guy already came and fiddled around with it back on Feburary 7th (with no explanation of what he was doing, or any indication he knew just what it was we had complained about)?

GRAAAH SMASH

edit 2 PM: I've had the outside door open for not quite 2 hours. Briefly, at about 1 pm, there was blessedly cool air coming out of that vent but between then ant 1:30 it switched back to heat (despite the outside temp still rising) and it's heat now, which appears to be overtaking the ability of the outside air to cool the room, since there's not much of a temperature difference.

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* And partly also the calendar; there was never a/c before they had done yearly service on it and apparently the powers that be decided it was never needed until May when in fact we really needed it beginning around March. A room full of about 80 live humans and CRT monitors, as my work space was then, gave off a lot of heat. (This is a different office I'm complaining about now: two people and their LCD screens in a fairly large square footage, so no appreciable source of excess heat.)

My new 22" LG monitor has a stuck pixel out of the box which has failed to respond to various pixel-fixing programs (and I am extremely leery of trying more physical techniques which might hurt something, especially if I want to try to send it for warranty replacement). It's precisely one pixel, so I won't get satisfaction from Newegg about it and have to turn to the possibility of manufacturer warranty. I sent LG's customer service an email yesterday asking whether this was enough defect to get it replaced, but haven't received a reply yet. I dread having to call them on the phone (not because of prior bad experience -- I have none at all with LG -- but because I hate that kind of thing). Waaahhhh.

Stygian says:
apparently your dad has managed to actually get a att [AT&T] "weenie" to talk to him
pervy snape fancier says:
lol
Stygian says:
apparently there are yet more problems..
pervy snape fancier says:
oh?
Stygian says:
apparently they won't install if the outlets aren't grounded..
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In summary: Y BROADBAND BE HATIN YO

srsly. this is almost 2009. I know the US is way behind Europe and Japan and all but IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD to get internet that isn't dial-up. This is Silicon Valley, gol-dangit. Al Gore invented the left half of the intertubes here. Or something.


Now that I've got that entitled-sounding rant out of the way, I should be thankful that this is all the sort of thing I have to worry about, and not, you know, where my next meal is coming from or anything.

I hate Tom Servo's new voice LJ's new user profile design.

I was one of many people who said "DO NOT WANT" when it was in beta, but I guess we weren't many enough.