How about "Air Conditioner Woes"?

Have you ever tried sleeping on summer days without an aircon?

I just realized how much of a slave of the air conditioner technology I am when mine broke down last Sunday. Alongside with the humid Hong Kong weather, my room wasn't really getting any decent circulation. And I couldn't open my windows because its been raining countinuously for the past few weeks.

And I had to keep my new PC on... now that's generating a lot of heat. Amazing what the difference between the old and the new PC is. I have my old PC on for the whole day, and the case doesn't feel as hot.. maybe just a bit warm. In comparison, the dsl modem feels hotter. The new PC, after running for 2-3 hours, will feel somewhere between uncomfortably warm to bordering on slightly hot to touch. And that's already adding an additional fan to blow out the hot air inside the casing. And I have it on the whole night, for several reasons. (read: I'm lazy to get down from my bunk bed, I'm acting as the ICS server for my brother's computer, I'm downloading the latest copy of Debian.)

So my room's steaming hot at the moment, for the past week. I've added in an electric fan to alleviate the situation, but it doesnt help overall to circulate the air and dehumidify the room as an aircon can. Plus, have you ever tried spraying air from the electric fan, frozen in front of your face, the whole night? I made that mistake the first 3 nights and I definitely paid for it dearly... 3 nights of horrible nightmares. Being half awake/half asleep althroughout. 10 Hour sleeps felt like 3 hour rest. Still terribly groggy when you wake up. The first day I felt so sick I had to call in sick and slept.. for 4 more hours. That's about 13 hours total. And I still felt groggy waking up.

Then I stopped doing that and had the rotary engine on so its not concentrated on my face. Its a bit better, but I'm still left with the feeling of not having enough sleep the whole night. Nightmares still come, but only occasionally. Don't ever make the mistake of sleeping with the electric fan in front of your face and... well, not rotating. Now I know what the rotating function is for :P (Seemed like a useless feature before.. you just want the air to blow steady on you rather than rotating everywhere.)

Ah well, I guess this is a good opportunity as any to start researching on air conditioners and buy myself a new one.