I took a short trip to the ground floor this afternoon, figuring it must be warm enough down there by now. We've had multiple water shutoffs here in the past couple of days, due to burst pipes. One of them basically exploded, so that must have been the loud noise I heard yesterday. It resulted in a flood in the manager's office and the social room (which is thankfully not carpeted).
I'm told my old apartment is
still freezing, even though they installed extra heating after I moved out.
I was also told that the other night, Edmonton was the coldest place in the
world (Edmonton is just 90 minutes north of here, so I have no trouble believing that!). I had to laugh, though, when the manager said, "It was colder than Antarctica!". I told him that of course it was, since it's the middle of summer in Antarctica now.
(and then I mooched the last two pastries left over from the maintenance staff's meeting, since they all went home - in this weather I crave chocolate, and there was a chocolate something-or-other in the Tim Hortons box

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