Thursday, September 09, 2004

The Complex Malibu

Just finished watching The Complex: Malibu. It's not that great. If you've never watched it, it's about 8 couples who are split up into two teams and they have to refurnish two luxury apartments. Whoever's team adds the least value to the apartments, they get to vote a couple off. Not great TV. Ever notice that all these imitation reality TV shows just are not good?

Anyway, yesterday, some people from church went out on a mission. Some guy, let's call him Joe, who used to go the church is going to law school and has moved into a house. But his room doesn't have air conditioning. So we decided to buy him one. And when I say 'we', I mean they. So we go to Home Depot and they laugh at us and are like 'all our air conditioners have been sold out for weeks.' Great. So we head over to Target, (ya know, the French store) and we're like, does Target even sell air conditioners? So we're looking around at 9:50pm, 10 min til it closes, and we don't find it. They have fans, humidifiers, and air filters, but not air conditioners. So we're about to give up, when, lo and behold (when have I ever said lo and behold before? Weird), we spot them. And when I say 'we', I mean Timmy. It's like sitting in totally not the right section, and there's only 3. So anyway, we go over to Joe's house and install it. He lives in a really bad area of town. We were really scared to look at people in the eye. So the air conditioner is one of those that sit in the window, but his window opens horizontally. And there's no brackets that come with the air conditioner. So basically the air conditioner is sitting on the window sill that is probably only like 5" wide, screwed into the wall, with a piece of cardboard on top to keep out the outside air. It's a job well done. Next week, we'll probably do something just as crazy. If you're in the LA area and need some home improvements done around the house, give us a call. We can't guarantee it'll work, or be pretty, but we'll have fun doing it.

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