Aaaaargh!

[fajrdrako]

Last night some helpful person at the theatre, probably in their desire to save money and power, turned down the thermostat in the lower foyer. It just happens that this thermostat controls the heat in my office. When I came in this morning, the temperature was at ten degress.

Well, that's not as bad as it is outside (at goodness-knows-what below zero) but it isn't comfortable to sit and type. Brr.

I feel as if I'm in the Fortress of Solitude - the Arctic one.

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[jfc013.livejournal.com]

Yeeeowch!

Oh, wait.

You mean Celsius.

But still...

:)

(psychically sending warm vibes)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Warm vibes gratefully accepted. I am wearing layers of sweaters and the base heater is turned up. It's getting better in here! Slowly but surely.

[gem225.livejournal.com]

You've turned up the thermostat, right, so that you'll be warmer soon? I only want you in the Fortress of Solitude if you have suitable and delightful company - which is antithetical to the concept, isn't it?

Thank you for the betas; I'll reply to them soon. I've been under the weather here, but I think that I'm improving.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You've turned up the thermostat, right, so that you'll be warmer soon?

Yes, and there are electric heaters at floor level. We turned those on too. There was some satisfying cursing of whoever turned the heat off, too - that warmed the place up a bit!

I only want you in the Fortress of Solitude if you have suitable and delightful company - which is antithetical to the concept, isn't it?

You'd think so, but in both the comic and the TV show, it seems to me that Superman and Clark are always having company there, so the "solitude" is really just nominal.


I've been under the weather here, but I think that I'm improving.

Oh, I hope so! Feel better soon.

[acampbell.livejournal.com]

Crawl into the bottle city of Kandor. I hear it's warmer in there!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm sure those Kryptonians are good at keeping things warm. Hmm - would Nightwing be there? (2nd sexiest hero at DC. Third, maybe, depending on what phase John Constantine is in.)

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Nightwing and Flamebird in the Bottle City of Kandor... those were the names adopted by Batman and Robin when they visited. Was this only on Earth-2? Anyway -- "Nightwing," technically in this instance, would mean Batman... or, if you like, Bruce Wayne. Let your imagination take it from there...!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Okay, if it's Bruce Wayne, it's the very sexiest hero in the DC universe, bar none. Just ask Selina Kyle.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Ten degrees? That seems pretty darn close to "and now the pipes will freeze" temperature.

Then again, I'm sure Canadian buildings all have nifty little insulation blankets on all the pipes, because this sort of thing makes sense in a land where it gets so cold so regularly... not like in the US, where in certain places (parts of North Carolina, for instance) many people don't even have furnaces in their houses because it hardly ever gets cold enough for them to need them.

Still... it ain't fun to have your pipes freeze. Perhaps there are no pipes in the OLT's lower foyer. But there's a portrait of the Queen, and it'd be unseemly for her to get a chill.

Keep up the good work with those sweaters. Or maybe bring a mini-tramp and jog in place for half an hour, till the air catches up with the thermostat!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there are no pipes in the OLT's lower foyer. But there's a portrait of the Queen, and it'd be unseemly for her to get a chill.

LOL! True! Can't let that happen.

The trampoline would be fun but it's difficult to jump and type at the same time.

(Ponders the possibilities....)

[katkim.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten how cold it can get in Canada. I lived briefly (about 2 months, Feb/March) in Toronto, and it reached -43 degrees. I'm a few days late, but I hope it's warmed up!

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It has warmed up some, but only a few degrees. The weather, I mean - my office has warmed up very nicely, and now we are, in paranoid fashion, keeping it quite warm. The day after someone had turned the heat down in the foyer (and my office), someone, perhaps the same someone, turned the heat in the rehearsal hall right off - it was utterly frigid by morning, and that affects the costume and other rooms where people have to work. The Technical Director is considering getting locked boxes on all the thermostats so no one can meddle with them.

I seem to be getting used to the cold again: I walked quite a bit in the cold both yesterday and today, and enjoyed it. On the other hand, I feel exhausted. I find the cold tiring.

I also envy Irish weather. I loved it there. (I was there in November.)

Bad luck, if you lived in Toronto for only two months, and it was winter, and a cold one at that!

[ladyeclectic79.livejournal.com]

*brrrr* That's me every night. My house's thermostat never seems to get above 50 degree F, and when you're typing your fingers are moving across the keyboard and, well....
*sits on hands to warm them up* I hate cold houses...