windless

i have five windows along one side of my apartment.  four of the windows are sliding windows and one opens out at the bottom, letting in air but not rain.  unfortunately, there's a building right next door, so i don't actually get any sunlight from that side.

the space between the buildings does make a bit of a wind tunnel though, so i get a nice little breeze when i leave them open.  normally around this time of year, i leave them open all day.  while it's already hot enough to justify closing them all and using the a/c, i am trying to hold out for a little bit longer.  saving all my yennies.

luckily none of my windows match up with the windows next door because the buildings are so close that i can reach out and easily touch my neighbor's building.  the window in the bathroom that opens out actually stops when it hits the neighbor's building.  (and wouldn't that be awkward if the windows did match up; we would both feel like we were in the others apartment)

anyway, yes, the buildings are THAT close.  welcome to tokyo.

so, this week they started tearing down the building next to mine and rebuilding.  the current building and the planned building are both four stories.  i live on the second floor. the optimist in me said, "ooh, once they tear it down, but before they build it back up again, i'll get amazing sun and air in my apartment!"

and then went up the scaffolding.

and the heavy duty tarps.

which, do a great job of keeping the whole demolition/dust/drilling under wraps (ha...pun intended) until it's all done (presumably?), but the whole pipe beams and heavy duty tarps thing also takes up all of the already tiny space between the buildings.

my bathroom window doesn't even open.

the tarp blocks the "wind tunnel."

there is no breeze.

sigh...

yeah, it's gonna be a long summer.



guess i'll just have to buy more popsicles.




p.s. there's still time to get in on the happy 600 giveaway.