don't rain on my air conditioner
Jul. 31st, 2009 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
phthalombrageI woke up at 4-something this morning to a terrifying loud random hammering of rain on my air conditioner. This sound had woken me before - I'm a light sleeper - but it wasn't nearly so early before. I couldn't drown the noise out with headphones (the people talking noises from a few nights before were far easier to ignore with an overlay of music), the headphones were uncomfortable to lie on (I can't sleep on my back), the blankets I pulled close to my head to try to drown out most of the sound made me too warm, and the sound wasn't even rhythmic, so I knew heavy rain was collecting on a higher level and barreling down onto the thin, hollow metal case. I was hoping it was another A/C in a higher window or a gutter, so that I might just move the A/C unit laterally in the window somehow to avoid it. I only have one small window in my room in which to keep the unit, so changing windows is not an option.
I had clocked maybe three hours of sleep and normally get up for work at seven-thirty. I couldn't get back to sleep until just before seven, when the rain died down some. We don't have a couch I can retreat to.
This morning I went out and assessed the situation. The rain had fallen from the rooftop a story and a half above because my air conditioning unit protrudes farther than the roof overhang. Our gutters must suck or something, or maybe they had just overflowed?
In any case, I overslept by an hour and was a half-hour late for work.
This means my options are:
1. Try to see if I can swap the A/C for another one we have that might be less deep that hopefully won't cause a problem for someone else trying to sleep.
2. Just move the unit to the basement; I have only used it once in the two or so weeks I've been here.
3. Experiment with industrial ear plugs.
4. Hope we find a couch eventually and sleep on it when it rains hard.
Sadface!
I had clocked maybe three hours of sleep and normally get up for work at seven-thirty. I couldn't get back to sleep until just before seven, when the rain died down some. We don't have a couch I can retreat to.
This morning I went out and assessed the situation. The rain had fallen from the rooftop a story and a half above because my air conditioning unit protrudes farther than the roof overhang. Our gutters must suck or something, or maybe they had just overflowed?
In any case, I overslept by an hour and was a half-hour late for work.
This means my options are:
1. Try to see if I can swap the A/C for another one we have that might be less deep that hopefully won't cause a problem for someone else trying to sleep.
2. Just move the unit to the basement; I have only used it once in the two or so weeks I've been here.
3. Experiment with industrial ear plugs.
4. Hope we find a couch eventually and sleep on it when it rains hard.
Sadface!
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Date: 2009-08-01 03:06 am (UTC)And oddly enough, I don't find it as disturbing as you might think to wake up and not be able to hear anything. And I've always taken them out sometime during the night, so never had issues with missing my alarm (the reason I didn't try this for the longest time). Though I also haven't actually used my alarm much, lately...
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Date: 2009-08-01 07:58 pm (UTC)I found that having one earbud in, playing music, and the other ear on the pillow (I also cannot sleep on my back) worked reasonably well for sleeping.
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