{"id":2879,"date":"2009-07-24T23:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T06:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2009-07-24T23:52:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T06:52:45","slug":"im-the-ac-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m the AC man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother-in-law has been having some health problems and we&#8217;re wondering if it&#8217;s triggered from the heat. I had a portable air conditioner just sitting around because we put in central air conditioning, but I gave it to Devon from the gym who is pregnant because who really wants to see a pregnant woman suffer in the heat? So it was time to hit Sears and Costco. Unfortunately, the heat was getting to my brother-in-law, so I ended up buying the thing. I thought it was a little unwieldy, but realized that it was hard to manhandle because it was ninety-five pounds! In any case, he&#8217;s going to set it up in his basement because we&#8217;re supposed to have a record-breaking stretch of above-90&deg;F weather here in Portland. We&#8217;re not used to that sort of heat here.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it&#8217;s Friday, and I&#8217;m watching some TV like usual. I found a bunch of <b>Tantei Knight Scoop<\/b> from the Osaka area. They get questions from listeners and have some comedians go and try to find out the answers. The questions are like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My 36-year-old husband thinks he can play volleyball at the Olympic level. Can you find out if he can? (He couldn&#8217;t, but never gave up.)<\/li>\n<li>Can you help a 40-something man make an &#8220;Ultra Q&#8221; monster from his youth?<\/li>\n<li>Can you help find a bug that my dad used to eat when he was a kid?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m really into animal whiskers. Can you find a walrus with whiskers I can touch?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The questions are weird, but the show is pretty fun at times. I remember it used to show late on Friday night at 11:17PM, right after the 11PM news and the following ads. Funny how I&#8217;m watching it and it&#8217;s probably about the right day and time of night for it to be on the air if I was back in Osaka. And really, I should probably be asleep wherever I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My brother-in-law has been having some health problems and we&#8217;re wondering if it&#8217;s triggered from the heat. I had a portable air conditioner just sitting around because we put in central air conditioning, but I gave it to Devon from the gym who is pregnant because who really wants to see a pregnant woman suffer in the heat? So it was time to hit Sears and Costco. Unfortunately, the heat was getting to my brother-in-law, so I ended up buying the thing. I thought it was a little unwieldy, but realized that it was hard to manhandle because it was ninety-five pounds! In any case, he&#8217;s going to set it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2879\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m the AC man.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}