A broadcast e-mail from this morning from the office manager:
I’ve been told a valve broke and leaked glycol into the elevator shaft and cooling pad. The elevator does not work and we do not have any cooling in the building at this time. They are trying to assess the problem and determine what is needed to fix it.
Thank you for your patience.
Loosely translated:
The south side of the building, especially the south end of wing B, which has both an eastern and western exposure, right where Dave’s office is, will heat up 82 or so, much warmer than the outside temp, which is actually quite comfortable right now, thank you for asking.
Feel free to use the stairs to come down to the lobby where it’s nice and cool.
Fortunately, I have a little fan to blow the warm air around with, sort of like a convection oven.
Hmmm.
If I remember correctly 98 deg. and 94% hum. is the upper end of OSHA approved comfort levels. You got a ways to go.
Yeah, I know. And since I have a thermostat in my office, I can see just less-than-unsafe it is.
If it weren’t a sensitive thing around the office right now, I would plan to work from home tomorrow.
Gosh, Dave, as the car I use for work here in Southern California has no A/C, I really feel sorry for you, having to put up with that 84F temperature. I’ll be weeping in my 115-degree car interior all day tomorrow.
Sheesh.
The A/C is now fixed. Huzzah.
Well thats about right…it’s what…39 Deg. out right now, so of course the A/C is fixed.
Well, turns out I was wrong — it was the fan and the coolth from the window that made me think the A/C was working again. We’re still over 80 here.