{"id":967,"date":"2009-05-02T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/mm-the-smell-of-fly-corpses-in-the-morning"},"modified":"2009-06-12T20:11:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T18:11:45","slug":"smell-of-fly-corpses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/02\/smell-of-fly-corpses","title":{"rendered":"Mm, the smell of fly corpses in the morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to go carpet shopping today but I was too comfortable for too long watching the X-Files so I couldn&#8217;t be bothered anymore. It&#8217;s a hassle getting to the shops where I want to go. It&#8217;s less of a hassle from work so I&#8217;ll try and leave a little earlier some day.<\/p>\n<p>Skipping that &#8220;responsibility&#8221; I decided to do something useful anyway. I decided to clean up the air conditioning unit &#8212; which should be done every 6 months and I haven&#8217;t exactly done so. It&#8217;s nearly a year since I moved here (anniversary on Tuesday) so I figured it&#8217;s high time.<\/p>\n<p>I opened up the door (a bit of a struggle) and was greeted with black blobs of dead flies (those really really tiny ones) all over the floor of the unit and in the filters, and a sort of sweet smell. Mm.<\/p>\n<p>I had to take out the dusty filters and vacuum the flies away. There&#8217;s a cubic element in the middle (whatever it does) that apparently should be removed and washed but I couldn&#8217;t figure out how to do that and I was afraid to pull it too forcefully. I&#8217;ll have to ask Dad come and check it out some day (how embarrassing&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least now I have an 80% clean air conditioning unit instead of the entirely unclean one.<\/p>\n<p>Cough cough. I think I inhaled some of the flies.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: smaller\">(Just kidding! One of the filters was really dusty. Not with flies, thank god.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was supposed to go carpet shopping today but I was too comfortable for too long watching the X-Files so I couldn&#8217;t be bothered anymore. It&#8217;s a hassle getting to the shops where I want to go. It&#8217;s less of a hassle from work so I&#8217;ll try and leave a little earlier some day. Skipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}