For Judy, BISS is business as usual. She’s beginning to count down the days to the end of school. For me, I start off the day, stuck at the apartment, waiting on the UHN guy to finish the A/C fix. He actually shows up around 9:00 am. He replaces the wall electrical outlet (not sure what was wrong with the one that was in place, they looked the same?). He plugs in the new unit, and it begins cooling. Ahhhhh! Comfort! Judy will be so happy.

He leaves and I begin finishing up some of my home chores, before leaving to buy groceries. Just before I leave, I decide to enjoy the new coolness of the bedroom, and realize that the A/C is beginning to drain water onto the bed. ARRGGGGHHHH!

I call and text Lisa (she doesn’t pick up), hoping for a quick return visit from the UHN tech. She calls me an hour later, to let me know she was not getting a signal wherever she was. She assures me she’ll get the guy back to the apartment. An hour later, he knocks on the door. He assesses the situation and begins climbing out the window. He doesn’t have his usual cord that he ties himself up with. He has some wire that looks like “baling wire”, ties himself up, and heads out on the ledge. He fiddles with something on the A/C unit, and climbs back in.

Now the two of us begin trying to communicate about what was happening. The UHN tech demonstrates the condensation drain was twisted and blocked, and the water was backing up into the indoor unit. He shows me how he straightened it out, and it should drain now. He leaves and I hang around waiting to see if he’s correct. An hour later, and it seems fixed.

Now I can finally head over to Metro for grocery shopping. Back home later, I put away the purchases, but can’t get enthused about leaving again. It’s hot in Beijing this week. We’re talking 100+ temps. Last year, Beijing had only two days all year this warm. There are three days in the weather forecast for this week alone that are supposed to go over 100.